Meet Commander Fionna Matheson

Commander Fionna Matheson, NOAA Corps. (Image credit: NOAA)

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New launch date targeted for NOAA weather satellite

GOES-U satellite rendering. (Image credit: NOAA Satellites)

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Vector are of a lighthouse. (Image credit: NOAA)

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Congratulations to the following members of the ProTech Team who were recently awarded the 2023 NOAA Acquisition and Grants Office Award for Acquisition Innovation! March 25, 2024

Congratulations to the following members of the ProTech Team who were recently awarded the 2023 NOAA Acquisition and Grants Office Award for Acquisition Innovation!

• Mike Baker, ProTech Satellite 2.0 Domain Account Manager
• Virginia Scott, ProTech Satellite 2.0 Domain Administrative Contracting Officer
• Pierre Smith, ProTech Satellite 2.0 Domain Procuring Contracting Officer

Their efforts using several innovative acquisition techniques led to the successful award of the ProTech Satellite 2.0 Domain contracts, and those same techniques are being used in the other ProTech 2.0 Domain competitions.

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National Weather Service launches new website for water prediction and products March 28, 2024

The National Weather Service (NWS) is introducing the new National Water Prediction Service (NWPS), transforming how water resources information and services are delivered, and providing a greatly improved user experience through enhanced displays. (Image credit: NOAA)

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NOAA’s National Weather Service launched a new website today: The National Water Prediction Service. This new hub for water data, products and services combines local and regional forecasts with water data and new national level capabilities, such as flood inundation maps and the National Water Model.

"This online water hub is modern and flexible — providing information to help our partners and the public make sound decisions for water safety and management," said Ed Clark, director of NOAA’s National Water Center. “The new site leverages modern software, geospatial technology and cloud infrastructure, vastly improving the customer experience before, during and after extreme water events such as floods and droughts.”

Key features integrated into the National Water Prediction Service website

• A new, dynamic and seamless national map with flexible options and expansive layers available to help analyze water conditions anywhere in the country.
• Improved hydrographs that are frequently updated, depict water level observations over the past 30 days and provide river flood forecasts up to 10 days in advance. 
• The National Water Model, which provides 24 hour coverage, seven days a week hydrologic forecast guidance along 3.4 million river miles across the U.S., including river segments, streams and creeks that have no river gauges.
• Real-time, comprehensive Flood Inundation Maps, which are being implemented in phases, will cover nearly 100% of the U.S. by October 2026.
• An Application Programming Interface (API) has been added to the traditional geographic information system (GIS) data, which will allow customers to flow water information into their own applications and services.

 

National Water Prediction Service (NWPS) map showing River Gauge observations and forecasts and associated precipitation estimates for March 26, 2024. This map should not be used for decision making. (Image credit: NOAA)Download Image

NWS continues to improve the essential support services it provides to communities locally and nationwide as part of its transformation into a more nimble, flexible and mobile agency that works hand-in-hand with decision makers. The National Water Prediction Service website provides tools that deliver actionable hydrologic information across all time scales to address the growing risk of flooding, drought and water availability, and enables partners and the American public to make smart water decisions.

Resources

Weather.gov Webstory - January 12, 2024

NWPS Product and Users Guide

Flood Inundation Mapping news release

Biden-Harris Administration announces $80 million to improve flood prediction capabilities

National Weather Service - Flood Safety Tips and Resources

 

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Michael Musher, michael.musher@noaa.gov, (771) 233-1304

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Meet Makana: One of the first Hawaiian monk seal pups of 2024

Hawaiian monk seal RK80 (Keolakai) gave birth to her first pup, Makana, in February 2024 on O?ahu. Credit Hawai?i Marine Animal Response (NOAA Fisheries Permit #24359). (Image credit: Hawai?i Marine Animal Response)

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Meet five #WomenOfNOAA advancing marine heat wave research

Women at NOAA who are making critical contributions to NOAA’s work in marine heat wave research.  (Image credit: NOAA)

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2023 Gulf of Mexico deep sea expedition amplifies restoration efforts

Mesophotic and deep sea corals provide critical habitat for a diverse range of species, including the brittle stars, crinoids, and squat lobsters living on this coral photographed by an ROV during a 2023 restoration expedition. Credit: NOAA, Oceaneering International, Inc. (Image credit: NOAA, Oceaneering International, Inc.)

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This year, International Marconi Day (IMD) is on April 27. Italian inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi was born on April 25, 1874, and is credited for inventing the radiotelegraph system, creating Marconi's law, and sending the first wireless transmission over the open sea.

IMD was created to honor Marconi and is hosted annually by the Cornish Radio Amateur Club, GX...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced an upcoming change to the Commission Registration System (CORES) that licensees use to pay any application or regulatory fees, manage or reset a password on an existing FRN, or request a new FRN. Beginning March 29, 2024, multifactor authentication will be implemented. Users will be prompted to request a six-digit secondary verification ...

A full slate of programming has been committed for the 2024 ARRL National Convention, which will be hosted by Dayton Hamvention®, May 17 - 19, in Xenia, Ohio. Hamvention is the largest annual gathering of radio amateurs in the world. Coupled with the National Convention, this year promises to be a Hamvention not to miss. Building on a yearlong theme to "Be Radio Active," ARRL has planned exhibi...

Over March 14-20, new sunspot groups emerged every day except March
19. March 18 had two, and each of the other days saw one new sunspot
group.

It is now Spring in the Northern Hemisphere which is favorable to HF
conditions, and solar and geomagnetic numbers both show improvement.

Average daily sunspot numbers rose from 82.3 to 94.3, and average
daily solar flux jumped from 130.4 to 153.3.

Geomagnetic...