News & Announcements

A Hawaiian language teacher from Kamehameha Schools joined the NOAA Fisheries Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program and Marine Turtle Biology and Assessment Program for a research expedition to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands to deploy field camps.

The NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette is departing on May 15th for a 27-day research expedition throughout the Hawaiian Islands to support research and recovery of the endangered Hawaiian monk seal and threatened green sea turtle. We will follow their progress and provide updates in these notes from the field.

Students in American Samoa learn how to survey coral reefs through the Quantitative Underwater Ecological Survey Techniques (QUEST) program.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work as a fisheries observer? Spending weeks at sea, long hours identifying and measuring fish, and all the while braving the harsh and vast environment that is the open ocean? Holly Ann Naholowaa, a veteran observer for the Hawaiʻi longline fishery, shares her experiences during a fishing trip and provides a glimpse into her life at sea.

Our team collected more than 160,000 pounds of marine debris in just 41 days.

Annual research mission to survey bottomfish in the main Hawaiian Islands.

Teaming up to study endangered oceanic whitetip and silky sharks off the coast of Hawai‘i Island.

The marine debris team travels to the shores of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands aboard the vessel Imua.

Our team of five cleans up more than 25,000 pounds of debris in 10 days on Midway Atoll.

Working with Google AI (artificial intelligence) to use machine learning to identify whale song.