In the News Archive

Scientists are still untangling the complex relationship between El Niño and human-driven warming, but their confluence has major implications for extreme weather and global temperatures.

The biggest episodes of the past have altered the course of human events, according to researchers. An emerging one is drawing historic comparisons.

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.

A specialized plane, camera and a crew of four are in Alaska to understand the ecosystems of the Bering and Chukchi seas. UW CICOES / NOAA PMEL scientist Jiaxu Zhang, the ArcticAIR project lead, is quoted.

[Podcast] Today on Future Tense on ABC Radio National, we'll look at the progress of two ocean-related initiatives, efforts where nations, non-governed organizations, and companies, are coming together to build a framework for how we regulate and protect the oceans.

The quake in Russia on Wednesday was among the strongest ever recorded — but in many places, the resulting wave was small.

When a group of University of Washington students deployed an instrument called a Seaglider in the Pacific Ocean near the equator last November, it was their biggest mission yet.

After the Seaglider launched, there was a week of coordination with other instruments deployed by UW Applied Physics Laboratory as well as equipment remotely operated by NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory’s Ocean Climate Stations group.

A new emerging ocean observing network joins the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), marking a key step in expanding coordinated, global ocean surface observations. This fleet of Uncrewed Surface Vehicles, called SUN Fleet, is able to monitor numerous GOOS Essential Ocean Variables and measure important air-sea exchanges in remote areas and under harsh conditions.

Atlantic Niño/Niña events can influence hurricane development, but they can be difficult to predict. A new study sheds light on the oceanic chain reaction that can trigger these events, potentially improving our ability to forecast them.

Study coauthored by PMEL's Mike McPhaden.

The Surface UNcrewed Fleet (SUN Fleet) – a new network of ocean robots – could solve longstanding scientific challenges.

Washington's coastal communities face a significant threat from tsunamis, with potential water heights reaching three stories in some areas following an offshore magnitude 9.0 earthquake.

Was the infamous "bloop" a sea monster? Learn why this noise was a good reminder that we should keep an eye on the South Pole.

Experts said they were "blind" to the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Twenty years later, working toward a world without tsunami deaths is a challenge.

Warning systems for the deadly waves now exist in oceans around the world.