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A Food Blog For Planktivores

Field Fresh Blog: Science in Motion

Research fishery biologist Katey Marancik participated in the winter 2024 Ecosystem Monitoring Survey sampling plankton. While eating in NOAA Ship Henry B. Bigelow’s galley, she wondered, “What would a planktivore food blog look like?” So she created one.
March 14, 2024 - Research ,
New England/Mid-Atlantic
Three people face the camera at a dinner table with a NOAA logo table cloth. Each person has a plate of food in front of them on the table and a smile on their face.

A Long-Term Partnership Continues Prosperity for Sea turtles, Students, and Scientists

NOAA scientists work with students from Hawai‘i Preparatory Academy to conduct research on Hawaiian green sea turtles on Hawai‘i Island.
December 06, 2019 - Research ,
Pacific Islands
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A New Field Season in a New World

Autonomous Gliders in the Antarctic

We’re heading back to Antarctica with our gliders, but this year will be—and already has been—different.
November 01, 2021 - Survey ,
West Coast
NOAA staff packing a truck full of gear to ship to Chile and then on to Antarctica Barely an inch to spare in the truck with all our gear. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jen Walsh.

A Night in the Life of a Seagoing Marine Ecologist

What is it like going to sea as a marine scientist? Join our NOAA scientists studying baby fish across Hawaiʻi for a night on the job!
December 27, 2023 - Research ,
Pacific Islands
Two researchers pour the contents of their net through a sieve over a sink. Scientists Andrea Schmidt and Jessica Perelman (CIMAR/RCUH in support of NOAA Fisheries, PIFSC) pour the contents of the cod end through a sieve. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Alexa Gonzalez

A Night on the Elakha

The Newportal

Notes from our 2022 Oregon Sea Grant Summer Scholar, Alex Ang
July 11, 2022 - Science Blog ,
West Coast

A NOAA Seal Team Goes Airborne for a Critical Science Mission

Towering cliffs with falling rocks, open ocean sea conditions, and small reef-shelf ledges crowded with seals make the islands of Nihoa and Mokumanamana an intimidating and very difficult environment to survey for scientists from NOAA Fisheries’ Hawaiia
June 11, 2018 - Research ,
Pacific Islands
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A Rare Sighting of Endangered Rice’s Whales

Collecting Information to Restore Marine Mammals and Seabirds in the Gulf of Mexico

During a vessel survey in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists sighted Rice’s whales! Rice’s whales are endangered, and each sighting of this species is important to building our scientific understanding of the population.
July 28, 2023 - Survey ,
Southeast
A rice's whale at the surface of the ocean With an estimated population of fewer than 100 individuals, scientists were thrilled to sight Rice's whales. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/ Felipe Triana (Permit #21938)

A Slippery Slope: Finding Corals and Other Creatures in Deepwater Canyons

Field Fresh Blog: Science in Motion

Blog post #3 from the Northern Neighbors cruise on the NOAA ship Henry B. Bigelow exploring deepwater communities off the coast of the Northeast U.S. and Atlantic Canada
June 21, 2019 - Research ,
New England/Mid-Atlantic
Underwater canyon wall with coral and brittle stars.

A Successful Final Leg on the Gulf of Mexico Marine Mammal and Seabird Vessel Survey

Collecting Information to Restore Marine Mammals and Seabirds in the Gulf of Mexico

Scientists ended the final leg of this 2-month long offshore research trip with quite a few marine mammal sightings and acoustics highlights.
October 17, 2023 - Survey ,
Southeast
The back and dorsal fin of a short-finned pilot whale are seen above the surface of the water. A short-finned pilot whale from a large group seen on the season’s final leg. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Jonny Reid

A Tale of Two Transects: Newport Line and Crescent City

The Newportal

By Sam Zeman and Jennifer Fisher Sampling aboard the NOAA ship Bell M. Shimada has been progressing smoothly and we have completed two of our highest priority transects: the Newport Hydrographic Line and the Crescent City Line off northern California.
September 25, 2019 - Survey ,
West Coast