A new NOAA-sponsored report shows that unprecedented warming air temperature in 2016 triggered massive declines in sea ice and snow cover across the Arctic, and brought a record-breaking delay to fall sea ice freeze up. Learn more through our image highlights of the 2016 Arctic Report Card.
In 2015, NOAA’s Arctic Research Program competitively funded three new five-year projects involving $4.2 million in grants (and benefit from additional support by interagency and international partners). Through these three new projects, university partners will help to carry out multidisciplinary observations and research for five years (from 2015 to 2020), in support of analysis, and modeling in the Pacific Arctic, i.e., the Chukchi Beaufort Sea, the East Siberian Sea, and the Arctic Ocean north of these regions.
The Secretary of Commerce has awarded a Group Silver Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement to the Ocean Acidification team, which includes CPO's Jeremy Mathis.
Princeton University, NOAA and eight other partner institutions are partnering on a six-year SOCCOM initiative. The U.S. Argo program, led by CPO's Steven Piotrowicz, will play a major role in the project.
Americans’ health, security and economic wellbeing are tied to climate and weather. Every day, we see communities grappling with environmental challenges due to unusual or extreme events related to climate and weather.