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Upcoming Events

NOAA Diver Training

January 21, 2021 to February 12, 2021
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February 1, 2021 to February 12, 2021
Diver Training

May 10, 2021 to May 28, 2021
Divemaster Training

May 17, 2021 to May 28, 2021
Diver Training

September 13, 2021 to October 1, 2021
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September 20, 2021 to October 1, 2021

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Does NOAA Corps decide where I will be stationed or will I have input?

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During Basic Officer Training Class, each officer will submit a memorandum listing his/her top three choices for their first ship assignment. The needs of the service are...

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Snow Water Equivalent & Soil Moisture Surveys

Allocation

October 1, 2015 to July 16, 2016

This aircraft supports the National Weather Service's National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC). NOHRSC has developed, and currently maintains, an operational Airborne Snow Survey Program to make...

A NOAA Diver conducts a benthic invertebrate survey amidst kelp.

Benthic Survey at Olympic National Marine Sanctuary

August 14, 2015

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NOAA Reciprocity Diver measuring a red abalone

Red Abalone Survey

June 24, 2014

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NOAA ship aids West Coast algae bloom study

August 27, 2015

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NOAA Ship Bell M. Shimada is supporting a major effort to chart a harmful algal bloom spanning much of the West Coast.

Multi-colored sonar view of a sunken tugboat

NOAA Ship Fairweather surveys sunken tugboat

September 12, 2015

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NOAA Ship Fairweather surveyed a 96-ft. World War II-era tugboat that sank in Alaska on Sept. 12.

Two female NOAA pilots pose in front of NOAA's Beechcraft King Air 350 CER

NOAA's newest research ship, Reuben Lasker, concluded its first scientific mission Nov. 9 after nearly four months surveying whale populations along the West Coast.