NOAA

• NOAA collected nearly 50 metric tons of marine debris, which threatens monk seals, sea turtles and other marine life in the coral reef ecosystem, in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
• Winners of the 2011 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers: From left is Anthony Arguez of NOAA NCDC; Rebecca Washenfelder of CIRES (top right); and Kyle Van Houtan of NOAA Fisheries (lower right).
(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
• Is climate change giving our weather just a little nudge to make setting heat records - like Washington, D.C. just experienced - vastly more likely? That's the opinion of one NOAA scientist.
(Washington Post)
• PASCAGOULA, Mississippi -- As research vessel Oregon II pulls out of its Pascagoula homeport Friday morning, it will celebrate a milestone that not many National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ships attain.
(Mississippi Press)
• (CBS News) On Tuesday, for the first time, government scientists are saying recent extreme weather events are likely connected to man-made climate change. Its the conclusion of a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(CBS News)
• The nation's largest scallop industry organization has found NOAA's approach to assessing the status of yellowtail flounder to be virtually worthless and urged the agency to scrap its commitment to "computer models" in favor of "field research.
(Gloucester Daily Times)
• The lab, the only one of its kind in the world, has fallen victim to budget cuts from Washington. NOAA was under orders to tighten up, and the $3 million annual budget for Aquarius was eliminated.
(WJR)
• Washington, DC - Rivers and communities will benefit from nearly $700,000 in grants awarded through the national partnership between American Rivers and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Restoration Center.
(Seaside Signal)
• NOAA also has more aircraft available to it, with better instruments.
(YAHOO!)
• BOULDER, Colo., July 19, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Ball Aerospace Technologies Corp. will integrate the Total Irradiance Monitor (TIM), to fly aboard the STPSat-3 spacecraft built for the US Air Force (USAF).
(Sacramento Bee)