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An alligator rests on a log in a swampy area surrounded by trees and lush aquatic vegetation.

Funding opportunity: Environmental Literacy for Community Resilience in the Gulf

Environmental Literacy for Community Resilience in the Gulf

citizen science month

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Three photos of citizen science volunteers. From left to right, the first photo is of Shelby wearing a raincoat and hat, standing on a cliff near a foggy coastline. Second, Esther and Jerry stand together on a sandy beach holding turtle monitoring equipment. Third, Craig Wollam holds a large fish while standing on a boat with the coastline in the background.

Meet the citizen scientists supporting NOAA’s mission

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Photo series: A Hollings intern's trip to document weather impacts in rural Alaska

November 9, 2022

A black and white photo. A nearly empty, grassy parking lot abuts against a wide, calm river. The river bends against a rocky mountain dotted with evergreens and flows into the horizon towards a distant mountain range. A truck and two vans are tucked into the left side of the parking lot, and lend the photo a sense of being taken out of time because they are in good condition, but with a decades old style.

A Hollings scholar's internship comparing methods for mapping plant hardiness zones

November 1, 2022

My internship communicating messages of ocean literacy, conservation, and protection

October 27, 2022

Caroline talks to a few people from behind an exhibit table. The table has materials including pamphlets, a plush salmon, and outreach swag typically found at conference exhibits.

Art gallery: Creating art to spark conversations about sea level change in Alaska

October 20, 2022

Kate holds a ruler as her sister places a painting. The left painting shows someone holding a pole that extends several feet above them while another person looks through a surveying tripod in a coastal area. The second painting shows a scuba diver mid-jump from a boat docked near the shore.

An EPP/MSI scholar's internship analyzing Antarctic images

October 14, 2022

Using machine learning to identify penguins

Three penguins stand on a rocky coast. One penguin looks off to the distance with its wings spread. Another stands stoically, and a third looks at the first one, wings spread. The penguins have black backs and white fronts, with the exception of black markings that look like a helmet with a thin chin strap running under their chin.

How a scholar helped modernize forecasting software used in NOAA offices across the U.S.

October 6, 2022

Explore spooky science with NOAA

October 4, 2022

A graphic with the text #NOAASpookyScience surrounded by imagery of a ship with ghosts floating on it, skeleton fish swimming in the ocean, a satellite shining a beam onto a group of bats, lightning clouds, a buoy covered in spiderwebs, and tentacles holding pumpkins.

My summer internship on messaging a sensitive and complex topic — pediatric vehicular heatstroke

September 27, 2022

Lily Muller researched how to create accurate and effective warning communication products about pediatric vehicular heatstroke deaths

StoryMap: The pandemic and air quality

September 26, 2022

This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. The illness

Can crickets tell the temperature? The answer is in their chirp!

September 21, 2022

A digital painting of a cricket standing on the pointer of a temperature gauge with it's wings up. The temperature gauge points to 82 degrees Fahrenheit and approximately 29 degrees Celcius.