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)
• (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)
• Natural gas prices would need to be relatively high and the cost of adding renewable energy relatively low. Electricity would need to be transferred more easily between regions of the country.
(Daily Camera)
• The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded $870,000 in federal financial assistance to the Guam Department of Administration.
(Guam Pacific Daily News)
• NOAA also has more aircraft available to it, with better instruments.
(YAHOO!)
• BOULDER, Colo. - 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).
(ThomasNet Industrial News Room)
• 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)
• Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) announced more than $2.4 million in federal funding to protect New Jerseys shoreline through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
(PolitickerNJ.com)