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Knauss Fellow Feature: Meet Dr. Claire Gonzales

Get to know Dr. Claire Gonzales, a 2025 Knauss Fellow with NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Science and Technology!
January 30, 2026 - Feature Story ,
National
A woman with long brown hair wearing a gray shirt smiles at the camera. Dr. Claire Gonzales was a 2025 Knauss Fellow with NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Science and Technology. Credit: Claire Gonzales

Knauss Fellow Feature: Meet Rachel Roday

Get to know Rachel Roday, a 2025 Knauss Fellow with NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Science and Technology!
January 23, 2026 - Feature Story ,
National
A woman wearing googles on her head and scuba gear smiles for a selfie while floating in clear turquoise water. Rachel Roday enjoys spending time on and under the water. She had the opportunity to dive in Maui while attending the American Fisheries Society’s Annual Meeting in Honolulu in 2024. Credit: Rachel Roday

How Do You Excel as a Fisheries Scientist? Reflections on a Career with Senior Scientist Dr. Jason Link

NOAA Senior Scientist Dr. Jason Link was recently honored by the American Fisheries Society with the 2025 Award for Excellence. We sat down with him for a conversation about his career.
January 13, 2026 - Feature Story ,
National
A man with a beard and glasses wearing a suit shakes hands with a man with glasses wearing a red shirt and holding a gold medallion. Dr. Jason Link (left) accepts the American Fisheries Society 2025 Award of Excellence from Society President Dr. Miguel Garcia-Bermudez (right). Credit: American Fisheries Society

Hilo Intern Chloe Winter Explores Sustainable Fisheries

From deepwater shrimp fisheries to electronic monitoring, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo intern Chloe Winter explores the science, policy, and teamwork behind sustainable fisheries.
December 03, 2025 - Feature Story ,
Pacific Islands
A diver in full wetsuit gear smiling brightly while on a boat near the coast. Chloe Winter is a graduate student at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo and an intern with NOAA Fisheries’ Pacific Islands Regional Office. Photo courtesy of Chloe Winter

Life at Sea on a Fisheries Survey with Chris Anderson

NOAA fishery biologists provide critical support for sustainable fisheries and science from deck to desk.
July 30, 2025 - Feature Story ,
Alaska
Chris Anderson stands on the deck of a fishing vessel and smiles while holding a walleye pollock in his right hand and a Pacific cod in his left. On deck of the FV Northwest Explorer during the annual Groundfish Bottom Trawl Survey, Chris Anderson holds up a walleye pollock and a Pacific cod, which represent two of Alaska’s largest fisheries. Credit: NOAA Fisheries

How Does Citizen Science Support Fisheries Stock Assessments?

New research from NOAA Fisheries indicates potential to expand the use of citizen science data in stock assessments and provides recommendations for the integration of this type of data in the future.
June 02, 2025 - News ,
National
A woman in a gray jacket and a woman in orange overalls hold up a bright orange fish and smile at the camera. California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program Statewide Coordinator Erin J. (right), holds a canary rockfish. Volunteer anglers like Keri C. (left) play an important role in this citizen science program, and the data they collect helps inform fisheries management strategies. Photo courtesy of the California Collaborative Fisheries Research Program.

Meet Fisheries Biologist, Kelsey Martin

As part of the Faces of the Southeast Fisheries Science Center series, meet Dr. Kelsey Martin.
January 10, 2025 - Feature Story ,
Southeast
A woman in a wet suit swims near a hammerhead shark just above the sandy ocean floor. Kelsey swimming with a great hammerhead in Bimini, Bahamas while she was volunteering at the Bimini Biological Field Station Foundation. © CJ Crooks

On Deck With Observer 0001—Looking Back 30 Years

This year the Pacific Islands Region Observer Program marks its 30th anniversary. To celebrate, we’re featuring its first observer, Tonya Wick.
November 21, 2024 - Feature Story ,
Pacific Islands
A woman poses holding a fish while aboard a fishing vessel with fisherman and their catch separated into baskets in the background. Tonya Wick aboard a fishing vessel at sea in 1998. Photo courtesy of Tonya Wick

A NOAA Veteran Intern’s Path to a Career in Conservation

David Farrell is an intern at NOAA through the Mt. Adams Institute VetsWork program, in a role that combines his two previous careers: communications and environmental protection.
November 08, 2024 - Feature Story ,
National
Two adults wearing clothes with the NOAA logo stand behind an outreach table David Farrell (left) and Jonas Veazey of the NOAA Restoration Center engage in community outreach at the Oroville Salmon Festival. Credit: NOAA.

NOAA Veterans Corps: Progress by the Numbers

NOAA’s Veterans Corps partnerships are building on more than a decade of growth, supporting habitat and fisheries restoration projects on the West Coast.
November 07, 2024 - Feature Story ,
National
A person wearing waders sits next to a river holding a large branch Veteran Colton Long monitors salmon and steelhead habitat in California’s Klamath River basin. Credit: NOAA Fisheries.