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Alaska's Bering Sea Is The Focus Of A NOAA Effort To Accelerate Science Delivery To Fisheries Managers

Integrated approach will deliver more timely, actionable data on climate change's impacts on changing ocean conditions.
March 28, 2019 - Feature Story ,
Alaska
Adak Island Bering Sea coast in the Aleutian Islands. Credit: iStock.

How Science Can Help Managers Anticipate And Respond To Climate Change To Keep U.S. Fisheries Sustainable

Changes in the Bering Sea ecosystem provides researchers a real-world testing ground to help marine resource managers anticipate and respond to climate change.
March 27, 2019 - Feature Story ,
Alaska
Aerial photograph of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. Snowcapped mountains surrounded by water and the lit up harbor town during the blue hour reflect creating a gradient between sea and sky. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Women in Science: Leaders in Electronic Technologies

Electronic monitoring and electronic reporting technologies are being developed to support science-based management decisions in commercial and recreational fisheries across the country.
March 27, 2019 - Feature Story ,
National
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NOAA, BOEM, Fishing Industry Sign New Memorandum of Understanding

Responsible wind energy development underpins new agreement for Northeast U.S. waters.
March 26, 2019 - Feature Story ,
New England/Mid-Atlantic
National
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Women's History Month: Talking with Lisa Colburn, Anthropologist

During March (Women’s History Month), the Northeast Fisheries Science Center asks five women scientists to share a little about their science journey, what hurdles or obstacles they’ve experienced, how they overcame them, and what advice they might have for the next generation of women scientists. Featured this week is Lisa Colburn, an anthropologist at our Woods Hole Lab and part of our Science Center’s Social Sciences Branch.
March 26, 2019 - Feature Story ,
New England/Mid-Atlantic
Women in white jacket taking notes, family fishing in background. on a dock.

Dead Seabirds Do Tell Tales: How Fishery Observers Help Provide Data for Seabird Management

NOAA’s National Seabird Program works with the nonprofit organization Oikonos to conduct seabird necropsies.
March 25, 2019 - Feature Story ,
Alaska
Pacific Islands
National
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NOAA and Partner Agencies Welcome Fish Back to Michigan Creek after Dam Removal

As part of restoring the Kalamazoo River watershed from hazardous waste contamination, the Alcott Dam was removed from Portage Creek in Michigan, reopening the creek to fish and other wildlife.
March 22, 2019 - Feature Story ,
New England/Mid-Atlantic
2019-03 GL alcott dam-portagecreek-stream after 1431x954 Credit USFWS.jpg Michigan's Portage Creek looking upstream toward recently restored habitat. Credit U.S. FWS/Lisa Williams.

Marine Safety Instructor Training Supports Observer Safety

Observer safety workshops ensure high training standards across all regional observer safety programs.
March 20, 2019 - Feature Story ,
National
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International Cruise to Track Salmon Comes to an End

An international team of biologists set out into some of the roughest waters in the North Pacific Ocean in the middle of winter to try to solve a fundamental mystery of Pacific salmon
March 19, 2019 - Feature Story ,
Alaska
West Coast
NOAA scientists aboard an international cruise to track salmon in Alaska. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

Celebrating Women's History Month

#WOMENofNOAA
March 19, 2019 - Feature Story ,
Southeast
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