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For the first time, data from a small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) – Black Swift Technologies’ S0 – will be integrated into NOAA’s hurricane forecast model during the 2026 hurricane season. 

Scientists from the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (@cimas_rosenstiel) and NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory determined that incorporating sUAS data into NOAA’s Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS) can improve hurricane intensity forecast accuracy by 10%. 

Continued testing to demonstrate how various technologies impact the models is vital to strategize and identify the most efficient ways to enhance life-saving forecasts. These findings capture the significant improvements that S0 data provide to HAFS, pushing the needle in furthering NOAA’s mission of predicting severe weather to protect life and property.

Read all about it in a new web story at the link in bio 🔗

For the first time, data from a small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) – Black Swift Technologies’ S0 – will be integrated into NOAA’s hurricane forecast model during the 2026 hurricane season. 

Scientists from the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (@cimas_rosenstiel) and NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory determined that incorporating sUAS data into NOAA’s Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS) can improve hurricane intensity forecast accuracy by 10%. 

Continued testing to demonstrate how various technologies impact the models is vital to strategize and identify the most efficient ways to enhance life-saving forecasts. These findings capture the significant improvements that S0 data provide to HAFS, pushing the needle in furthering NOAA’s mission of predicting severe weather to protect life and property.

Read all about it in a new web story at the link in bio 🔗

For the first time, data from a small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) – Black Swift Technologies’ S0 – will be integrated into NOAA’s hurricane forecast model during the 2026 hurricane season. 

Scientists from the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (@cimas_rosenstiel) and NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory determined that incorporating sUAS data into NOAA’s Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS) can improve hurricane intensity forecast accuracy by 10%. 

Continued testing to demonstrate how various technologies impact the models is vital to strategize and identify the most efficient ways to enhance life-saving forecasts. These findings capture the significant improvements that S0 data provide to HAFS, pushing the needle in furthering NOAA’s mission of predicting severe weather to protect life and property.

Read all about it in a new web story at the link in bio 🔗

For the first time, data from a small uncrewed aircraft system (sUAS) – Black Swift Technologies’ S0 – will be integrated into NOAA’s hurricane forecast model during the 2026 hurricane season. 

Scientists from the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (@cimas_rosenstiel) and NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory determined that incorporating sUAS data into NOAA’s Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS) can improve hurricane intensity forecast accuracy by 10%. 

Continued testing to demonstrate how various technologies impact the models is vital to strategize and identify the most efficient ways to enhance life-saving forecasts. These findings capture the significant improvements that S0 data provide to HAFS, pushing the needle in furthering NOAA’s mission of predicting severe weather to protect life and property.

Read all about it in a new web story at the link in bio 🔗

Great news out today:
More than 3 years after lava from Hawaii’s erupting Mauna Loa volcano buried a mile of the road leading to NOAA’s world-renowned Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observatory (MLO), road crews have carved a temporary road restoring access to the site.
See our homepage for the full story and photos: www.noaa.gov

Via @NOAAResearch

#Science #Nature #data #MaunaLoa #Hawaii BigIsland NOAA

#ResearchRecap: Living shorelines, a prevalent nature‐based #coastal infrastructure technique, typically merge the restoration of coastal #habitats with gray infrastructure (e.g., rock or concrete breakwaters) to provide coastal erosion protection.

With increasingly frequent and severe storms, living shorelines have been shown to effectively limit coastal erosion and loss; however, there is still uncertainty regarding the effects of living shorelines on nekton communities.

Learn how a new study explores nekton abundance at living shorelines compared to natural and manmade shorelines at the link in our bio.

A new technique for forecasting West Nile virus based on NOAA #weather data is the first of its kind to successfully predict caseloads of the most common and deadliest mosquito-borne disease in the nation.

This new method established with historical #data is a key step toward an effective nationwide #forecast, aiming to provide actionable forecasts for public health agencies. Learn more at the link in our bio.

🚨 The 2026 Hurricane Field Program Plan is officially LIVE!

Head to the link in bio to explore the AOML Hurricane Research Division’s planned experiments and science modules, the cutting-edge instruments driving the research, operational strategies, data management plans, and more. 🔗

🚨 The 2026 Hurricane Field Program Plan is officially LIVE!

Head to the link in bio to explore the AOML Hurricane Research Division’s planned experiments and science modules, the cutting-edge instruments driving the research, operational strategies, data management plans, and more. 🔗

From May 14 to June 5, NOAA Ocean Exploration and partners will conduct an ROV shakedown expedition off Hawai‘i on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. This shakedown will stress test every component of the ROV system and their associated systems — mechanical, electrical, and software — to ensure they are performing properly and are ready for the 2026 field season.

Click the link in our bio to learn more about the 2026 ROV Shakedown.
Image: Remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer being loaded onto NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer in advance of the 2026 ROV Shakedown.

#explore #ocean #OceanExploration #okeanos #oeci

#ResearchRecap: While satellites can show that phytoplankton and chlorophyll bloom after hurricanes pass, our understanding of the subsurface biogeochemical landscape is limited. The findings of a recent study offer a three-dimensional view of how a powerful storm alters ocean productivity and biogeochemistry.

Learn how observations from satellites and ocean-going robots revealed that the ocean was profoundly altered–from its surface waters to its deeper layers after a hurricane by checking out the link in our bio.

Get ready for a year of groundbreaking ocean exploration! In 2026, NOAA Ocean Exploration and our partners will be exploring previously unknown areas of our ocean (and a lake!), making discoveries of scientific, economic, and cultural value and supporting innovations in exploration tools and capabilities.

To learn more about what we have planned for this year, including livestreamed ROV expeditions on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer and Exploration Vessel Nautilus, click the link in our bio.

Images: A map of this year's fieldwork sites and some of the tools we’ll be using to explore the ocean in 2026:

Remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer. Image courtesy of Olivia Andrus, Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration, Seascape Alaska

Autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry: Image courtesy of DEEP SEARCH 2017, NOAA-OER/BOEM/USGS.

#ocean #explore #OceanExploration #okeanos #EVNautilus @nautiluslive

Get ready for a year of groundbreaking ocean exploration! In 2026, NOAA Ocean Exploration and our partners will be exploring previously unknown areas of our ocean (and a lake!), making discoveries of scientific, economic, and cultural value and supporting innovations in exploration tools and capabilities.

To learn more about what we have planned for this year, including livestreamed ROV expeditions on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer and Exploration Vessel Nautilus, click the link in our bio.

Images: A map of this year's fieldwork sites and some of the tools we’ll be using to explore the ocean in 2026:

Remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer. Image courtesy of Olivia Andrus, Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration, Seascape Alaska

Autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry: Image courtesy of DEEP SEARCH 2017, NOAA-OER/BOEM/USGS.

#ocean #explore #OceanExploration #okeanos #EVNautilus @nautiluslive

Get ready for a year of groundbreaking ocean exploration! In 2026, NOAA Ocean Exploration and our partners will be exploring previously unknown areas of our ocean (and a lake!), making discoveries of scientific, economic, and cultural value and supporting innovations in exploration tools and capabilities.

To learn more about what we have planned for this year, including livestreamed ROV expeditions on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer and Exploration Vessel Nautilus, click the link in our bio.

Images: A map of this year's fieldwork sites and some of the tools we’ll be using to explore the ocean in 2026:

Remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer. Image courtesy of Olivia Andrus, Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration, Seascape Alaska

Autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry: Image courtesy of DEEP SEARCH 2017, NOAA-OER/BOEM/USGS.

#ocean #explore #OceanExploration #okeanos #EVNautilus @nautiluslive

Did you know that we can learn about deep-sea creatures without even seeing them? Thanks to environmental DNA (eDNA), we no longer need a visual sighting to know what’s been in the neighborhood.

Check the link in our bio to learn about the first eDNA data from @noaaoceanexploration expeditions on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. By making these data publicly accessible, @NOAA is helping scientists uncover secrets about organisms in the hardest-to-reach parts of our ocean.

Image: a close up of the jellyfish Crossota millsae

The NOAA Air Resources Laboratory is working with @nws Weather Forecasting Offices across the country to prepare for the World Cup games this year by using the NOAA HYSPLIT model.

With 11 U.S. cities hosting events, each with its own requirements, unique customization by the HYSPLIT modeling team is needed to ensure forecasting offices can get local officials the specific forecasts needed before and during the games.

Learn more at the link in our bio.

Welcome to Week 6 of the A16S Cruise! 

What you’re seeing here is an Argo float deployed into the open Atlantic! Scientists at @whoi.ocean are leading this effort onboard with floats that sink to depths of 2,000 meters and capture invaluable oceanographic data as they make their way back up to the surface every 10-days! There are about 4,400 operational floats and the global array consists of over 3 million profiles! The data is then transmitted through satellite to AOML where scientists process and quality-control the data. 

AOML acts as the US Data Assembly Center (DAC) for the global Argo program. The role of the DAC is to collect and quality control all of the Argo data collected by US scientific and governmental institutions. After the required quality for the data is achieved, it is transmitted to the two global data assembly centers (GDAC) and made publicly available within 24 hours of transmission from the float.

Photo 1: Researchers deploy a boxed BGC Argo float from the ship’s A-frame.; Photo credit: Zachary Nachod
Photo 2: The first float to be “adopted” by students back on land in the Adopt-a-Float program, is carried for deployment; Photo credit: Zachary Nachod
Photo 3: Boxed floats awaiting deployment; Photo credit: Zachary Nachod

Welcome to Week 6 of the A16S Cruise! 

What you’re seeing here is an Argo float deployed into the open Atlantic! Scientists at @whoi.ocean are leading this effort onboard with floats that sink to depths of 2,000 meters and capture invaluable oceanographic data as they make their way back up to the surface every 10-days! There are about 4,400 operational floats and the global array consists of over 3 million profiles! The data is then transmitted through satellite to AOML where scientists process and quality-control the data. 

AOML acts as the US Data Assembly Center (DAC) for the global Argo program. The role of the DAC is to collect and quality control all of the Argo data collected by US scientific and governmental institutions. After the required quality for the data is achieved, it is transmitted to the two global data assembly centers (GDAC) and made publicly available within 24 hours of transmission from the float.

Photo 1: Researchers deploy a boxed BGC Argo float from the ship’s A-frame.; Photo credit: Zachary Nachod
Photo 2: The first float to be “adopted” by students back on land in the Adopt-a-Float program, is carried for deployment; Photo credit: Zachary Nachod
Photo 3: Boxed floats awaiting deployment; Photo credit: Zachary Nachod

Welcome to Week 6 of the A16S Cruise! 

What you’re seeing here is an Argo float deployed into the open Atlantic! Scientists at @whoi.ocean are leading this effort onboard with floats that sink to depths of 2,000 meters and capture invaluable oceanographic data as they make their way back up to the surface every 10-days! There are about 4,400 operational floats and the global array consists of over 3 million profiles! The data is then transmitted through satellite to AOML where scientists process and quality-control the data. 

AOML acts as the US Data Assembly Center (DAC) for the global Argo program. The role of the DAC is to collect and quality control all of the Argo data collected by US scientific and governmental institutions. After the required quality for the data is achieved, it is transmitted to the two global data assembly centers (GDAC) and made publicly available within 24 hours of transmission from the float.

Photo 1: Researchers deploy a boxed BGC Argo float from the ship’s A-frame.; Photo credit: Zachary Nachod
Photo 2: The first float to be “adopted” by students back on land in the Adopt-a-Float program, is carried for deployment; Photo credit: Zachary Nachod
Photo 3: Boxed floats awaiting deployment; Photo credit: Zachary Nachod

This Friday's #ResearchRecap features a study that provides a comprehensive set of best practices for making marine eDNA data ready for ocean conservation and fisheries management. 🧬

A team of scientists synthesized years of research to create a best practices framework for putting names to DNA sequences. This level of accuracy is essential for NOAA’s mission to monitor invasive species, track the health of commercial fish stocks, and understand how changing environments are shifting where marine animals live.

More info at the link in our bio.