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Juvenile red rock crab in Puget Sound, WA, 2025. Photo by Zack Gold, NOAA PMEL.
NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)-coauthored research article wins United Kingdom's National Champion award and is shortlisted for the Frontiers Planet Prize.
Ocean Acidification: Another Planetary Boundary Crossed, published in Global Change Biology by lead author Professor Helen S. Findlay from Plymouth Marine Laboratory, with NOAA scientists Drs. Richard Feely (PMEL) and Liqing Jiang (CISESS / NESDIS-NCEI) and coauthors Greg Pelletier and Nina Bednaršek, has been named the United Kingdom's National Champion, and has been nominated by the UK as one of 25 nominees worldwide for the international Frontiers Planet Prize. As the world's largest global science competition dedicated to planetary health, the Prize awards three scientists $1 million each per year and fast-tracks transformative research with the power to shape real-world outcomes. One national champion is selected for each participating country, and from this international pool, a jury selects three awardees for the Frontiers Planet Prize.
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PMEL in the News
It’s bright yellow, solar-powered and self-propelled. It can stay at sea for months, collecting data with a wide variety of off-the-shelf and NOAA-designed instruments. Meet the SeaTrac.
PMEL/GOBOP, Scripps Ocean Institute and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution received the Fund for Science and Technology Award from Paul G. Allen Philanthropies for expanding Deep Argo float research.
Understanding how Alaska’s vast marine ecosystems are changing requires long, consistent records — something scientists have rarely had access to in one place.
Feature Publication
Kelp forest, Catalina Island, 2019. Photo by Zack Gold.
Pacific Red Octopus, WA, 2024. Photo by Zack Gold.
Imagine being able to identify every fish, mammal, invertebrate, and microbe in a patch of the ocean just by sampling a single cup of water. Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a process that allows scientists to detect the genetic... more