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PMEL at Work

• Ocean to Atmosphere: Research and Innovation at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• The Ocean: Earth's CO2 Sponge YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Using Acoustics and eDNA Innovations to Study Blue Whales YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Western Boundary Currents and Spray Gliders YouTube & mp4 & script & website <Telly Award!>

• Atmospheric Chemistry Research at NOAA/PMEL YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Arctic Observing Technology YouTube & mp4 & script & website

Arctic

• NOAA Twin Otter aircraft touchdown in Kotzebue, Alaska Instagram & mp4

• Seas of Knowledge: What the Puzzle Reveals YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Seas of Knowledge: Putting the Puzzle Together YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Seas of Knowledge: The Expedition Storm, 1861 YouTube & mp4 & website

• Seas of Knowledge: Weather Patterns, 1850-2014 YouTube & mp4 & website

• Arctic Observing Technology YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Age of Arctic Sea Ice in March 1984-2016 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Old Weather: Citizen Scientists YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Arctic Oceanography from the Sky YouTube & mp4 & website

• Deploying an Alamo float in the Arctic from the NOAA Twin Otter YouTube & mp4 & website

• Saildrones explore the Bering Sea: Summer 2016 YouTube & mp4 & website & transcript

• Northern Polar Stratospheric Temperature Anomalies in March (1981-2016) YouTube & mp4 & website

• Saildrone at Sea: Summer 2015 YouTube & mp4 & website

• Old Weather: Our Weather's Past, the Climate's Future YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Age of Arctic Sea Ice in March 1987-2014 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Aerial Sea Ice Mission with the WP-3D Orion Research Aircraft YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Mackenzie River Plume 2008 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Arctic Rediscovery YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Sounds of the Arctic Sea Ice Pack YouTube & mp4 & script & Arctic Rediscovery website & RUSALCA website

• Ocean Sounds in the Arctic YouTube & mp4 & website

NOAA Arctic Report Card

• Arctic Report Card 2025 - 20th anniversary, Interview Series

  • 20 Years of Arctic Change, an Interview Series - Dr. James Overland YouTube & mp4 & script

• Arctic Report Card 2024 website

  • Full-length video YouTube & mp4 & script & script (Spanish)

  • Trailer YouTube & mp4

  • YouTube Short YouTube & mp4

• Arctic Report Card 2023 website

  • Full-length video YouTube & mp4 & script & script (Spanish)

  • 30-second trailer YouTube & mp4

  • YouTube Short YouTube & mp4

• Arctic Report Card 2022 website

  • Full-length video YouTube & mp4 & script & script (Spanish)

  • 30-second social media promo YouTube & mp4

  • Wilson Justin Oral History (from essay entitled "Consequences of rapid environmental Arctic change for people") YouTube & mp4 & script

  • Arctic Sea Ice Age at Yearly Minimum (Years 1984-2022) animation mp4 (credit: Eric Hackathorn, NOAA GSL)

  • Greenland Surface Melt Extent animation mp4 (credit: Eric Hackathorn, NOAA GSL)

• Arctic Report Card 2021 website

  • Full-length video YouTube & mp4 & script

  • Ch1 "A Fundamentally Changed Arctic" YouTube & mp4

  • Ch 2 "On Thin Ice" YouTube & mp4

  • Ch 3 "A Flood of Change" YouTube & mp4

  • Arctic Sea Ice Age at Yearly Minimum (Years 1984-2021) animation mp4 (credit: Eric Hackathorn, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory)

• Arctic Report Card 2020 website

  • Full-length video YouTube & mp4 & script

  • (1-minute video) Ch1 "Rapid Change Overtaking the Arctic" YouTube & mp4

  • (1-minute video) Ch 2 "Fire in the Far North" YouTube & mp4

  • (1-minute video) Ch 3 "Bowhead Whales: Icon of the North" YouTube & mp4

• Arctic Report Card 2019 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Arctic Report Card 2018 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Arctic Report Card 2017 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Arctic Report Card 2016 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Arctic Report Card 2015 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Arctic Report Card 2014 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Arctic Report Card 2013 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Arctic Report Card 2012 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Arctic Report Card 2011 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Arctic Report Card 2010 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

North Pole Web Cams

• North Pole Web Cam 2015 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• North Pole Web Cam 2014 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• North Pole Web Cam 2013 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• North Pole Web Cam 2012 YouTube & mp4 & website

• North Pole Web Cam 2011 YouTube & mp4 & website

• North Pole Web Cam 2010 - Highlights YouTube & mp4 & website

• North Pole Web Cam 2010 (full length) YouTube & mp4 & website

• North Pole Web Cam 2009 YouTube & mp4 & website

• North Pole Web Cam 2008 YouTube & mp4 & website

• First North Pole Web Cam (2002) YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Approaching the North Pole on an Icebreaker Aug-Sep 2011 YouTube & mp4 & website

• Voyage to the North Pole on an Icebreaker Summer 2007 YouTube & mp4 & website

Atmospheric Chemistry

• Mobile labs of the Atmospheric Chemistry Group - PMEL Behind the Scenes YouTube & mp4 & website

• Atmospheric Chemistry Research at NOAA/PMEL YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Remotely operated aircraft measure Arctic soot YouTube & mp4 & script & website

Buoys, Observations, and Engineering

• ATLAS Buoy in the Global Tropical Moored Buoy Array (GTMBA) - PMEL Behind the Scenes YouTube & mp4 & website

• Western Boundary Currents and Spray Gliders YouTube & mp4 & script & website <Telly Award!>

• Saildrone Mission to the Equator YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Explaining the 2015-2016 El Niño YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• El Niño is Predictable YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Explaining the 2014 "El Niño" YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Deploying a Climate Monitoring Buoy at Ocean Station Papa YouTube & mp4 & website

• Saildrone in San Francisco in 2015 YouTube & mp4 & website

• NOAA Ocean Station Papa Buoy Recovery YouTube & mp4 & website

• NOAA Ocean Station Papa Buoy Deployment YouTube & mp4 & website

• Evolution of the 2009-2010 El Niño YouTube & mp4 & website

• Carbon wave glider deployment YouTube & mp4 & website

• PICO: Flexible, Low Cost Ocean Observations YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• DART Easy to Deploy (ETD) YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Wave Gliders YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• DART® Tsunami Detection Buoy YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• PICO Moored Ocean Buoy YouTube & mov & script & website

• ARC Ocean Buoy YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• TAO EL Niño Observing System YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• High precision instruments monitor the ocean from the seafloor YouTube & mp4 & script & website

Ocean Acidification

• The Ocean: Earth's CO2 Sponge YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Tracking our changing oceans across political boundaries YouTube & mp4 & website

• A Day in the Life YouTube & mp4 & website

• Leaving San Francisco YouTube & mp4 & website

• Ring around the rosette YouTube & mp4 & website

• Dolphins at Sunset YouTube & mp4 & website

• The Effects of Ocean Acidification on Pteropod Shells YouTube & mp4 & website

• Tracking an Ocean of Carbon YouTube & mov & mp4 & script & website

• Excerpt from A Sea Change YouTube & m4v & script & website

Tsunami

• Ternate, Indonesia Tsunami propagation - April 1, 2026 - YouTube & mp4 & website

• Unimak April 1, 1946 tsunami propagation (80th anniversary release) ("April Fools Day Tsunami” Unimak, Alaska) - YouTube & Instagram & mp4

• 2011 Tohoku Tsunami Wave Propagation (15th Anniversary Tohoku, Japan tsunami - March 11, 2011) - OAR Instagram & PMEL LinkedIn & mp4 & website

• 16th Anniversary of 2010 Chile tsunami - February 27, 2010 - YouTube & Instagram & LinkedIn & (Instagram) mp4 & (LinkedIn) mp4 & website

• Kamchatka Tsunami propagation - July 29, 2025

  • mov (propagation animation only)

  • YouTube & mp4 & website

  • global animation mp4 (Instagram, LinkedIn)

• Cape Mendocino, California Tsunami propagation - December 5, 2024 - YouTube & mp4 & website

• Hyuganada Sea, Japan (Kyushu) Tsunami propagation - August 8, 2024 - YouTube & mp4 & website

• Taiwan Tsunami propagation - April 2, 2024 - YouTube & mp4 & website

• Aquila, Mexico Tsunami propagation - September 19, 2022 - YouTube & mp4 & website

• Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apa Volcano-generated Tsunami propagation - January 15, 2022 - YouTube & mp4 & website

• South Sandwich Islands Tsunami propagation - August 12, 2021 - YouTube & mp4 & website

• Perryville, Alaska Tsunami propagation - July 29, 2021 - YouTube & mp4 & website

• Kermadec Islands Tsunami propagation - March 4, 2021 - YouTube & mp4 & website

• Loyalty Islands Tsunami propagation - February 10, 2021 - YouTube & mp4 & website

• Sand Point, AK Tsunami propagation - October 19, 2020 - YouTube & mp4 & website

• Tsunami Inundation Modeling of San Juan Islands, Washington, due to a Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake website

  • Grid A - YouTube & mp4

  • Grid B - YouTube & mp4

  • Grid C - YouTube & mp4

  • Grid C (current speed) - YouTube & mp4

• Alaska Peninsula, AK Tsunami propagation - July 22, 2020 - YouTube & mp4 & website

• Oaxaca, Mexico Tsunami propagation - June 23, 2020 - YouTube & mp4 & website

• Kuril Islands Tsunami propagation - March 25, 2020 - YouTube & mp4 & website

• Kermadec Tsunami Propagation - June 15, 2019 - YouTube & mp4 & website

• Sulawesi Tsunami Propagation - September 28, 2018 - YouTube & mp4 & mp4 Short & website

• Kodiak, Alaska Tsunami Propagation - January 23, 2018 - YouTube & mp4 & website

• Pijijiapan, Mexico Tsunami Propagation - September 8, 2017 YouTube (mercator) | YouTube (spherical) & mp4 (mercator) | mp4 (spherical) & website

• Kirakira, Solomon Islands Tsunami Propagation - December 8, 2016 YouTube & mp4 & website

• Amberley, New Zealand Tsunami Propagation - November 13, 2016 YouTube & mp4 & website

• Gisborne, New Zealand Tsunami Propagation - September 1, 2016 YouTube & mp4 & website

• Ecuador Tsunami Propagation - April 16, 2016 YouTube & mp4 & website

• Tsunami science: 10 years since Sumatra 2004 - YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Simulated Cascadia Event - U.S. West Coast propagation - YouTube & mp4 & website

• Simulated Cascadia Event - Global propagation - YouTube & mp4 & website

• Solomon Islands Tsunami Propagation - April 19, 2014 YouTube & mov & website

• Guerrero, Mexico Tsunami Propagation - April 18, 2014 YouTube & mov & website

• Solomon Islands Tsunami Propagation - April 13, 2014 YouTube & mov & website

• Solomon Islands Tsunami Propagation - April 12, 2014 YouTube & mov & website

• Iquique, Chile Tsunami Propagation - April 1, 2014 YouTube & mov (small) & mov (large) & website

• The Great Alaska Tsunami Propagation with model validation - March 28, 1964 YouTube & mov & website

• The Great Alaska Tsunami Propagation - March 28, 1964 YouTube & mp4 & website

• Honshu Tsunami Propagation - October 25, 2013 YouTube & mov & website

• Some coastlines are "Tsunami Magnets" YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Solomon Islands Tsunami Propagation - February 6, 2013 YouTube & mov & website

• Queen Charlotte Islands Tsunami Propagation - October 27, 2012 YouTube & mov & website

• Sumatra Tsunami Propagation - April 11, 2012 YouTube & mp4 & website

• Tsunami Generated by Earthquake Animation YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Kermadec Tsunami Propagation - July 6, 2011 YouTube & mp4 & website

• Underwater Microphone Captures Honshu, Japan Earthquake YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Honshu Tsunami Global Propagation - March 11, 2011 YouTube & mp4 & website

• "Killer Wave, Born of Fire" - Historical Tsunami in Okushiri, Japan - Jul. 12, 1993 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Narrated Honshu Tsunami Propagation - March 11, 2011 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Honshu Tsunami Propagation - March 11, 2011 YouTube & mp4 & website

• TsunamiTeacher - Tsunami Basics YouTube & mov & script & website & website

• Chile Tsunami Event - February 27, 2010 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• The Indian Ocean Tsunami Propagation - December 26, 2004 YouTube & mp4 & website

Acoustics

• Using Acoustics and eDNA Innovations to Study Blue Whales YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Challenger Deep: Ocean Noise YouTube & mp4 & script & website

Earth-Ocean Interactions

• Miniature Autonomous Plume Recorders (MAPR) - PMEL Behind the Scenes YouTube & mp4 & website

• Deep ash and hydrothermal plumes at West Mata submarine volcano, November 2017 YouTube & mp4

• Submarine Ring of Fire 2014 - Ironman YouTube & mp4 (.zip) & scripts (.zip) & website

• The Discovery of the West Mata Volcano YouTube & mp4 & script & website

EcoFOCI

• Large, persistent phytoplankton bloom in the Bering Sea in 2014 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

PMEL Events

• Congratulations on 50 years, PMEL! YouTube & mp4 & script & website

PMEL Strategic Themes

• Climate-Weather Research YouTube Playlist & mp4 files (zip file) & website

• Marine Ecosystem Research YouTube Playlist & mp4 files (zip file) & website

• Oceans and Coastal Processes Research YouTube Playlist & mp4 files (zip file) & website

• Research Innovation YouTube Playlist & mp4 files (zip file) & website

PMEL Seminars

• Taking the temperature of the abyss: Observations of the deep ocean warming YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• MBARI's coastal profiling float: progress, science opportunities and tech transfer YouTube & mp4 & script

• Three decades at the interface between ocean science and technology YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Super Climate Extremes YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Planktonic associations / Record Arctic cyclone of January 2022 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Net Community Production rates at M2 / 29 years at M2 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Oceanographic conditions shape rockfish survival / Biogeochemical modeling of the NE Pacific YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Juvenile snow crab habitat and response to warming in the Chukchi Sea YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Musing on the recent state of the North Pacific climate system / The 5th National Climate Assessment Alaska Chapter: Communicating YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• AFSC's Recruitment Processes Alliance: Putting ecosystem data to works / Automating the RZA for ecosystem based management YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Atmospheric circulation anomalies / Phytoplankton bloom timing vs zooplankton diapause YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• The importance of using zooplankton as ecosystem indicators / How do we identify fish larvae? / Wave measurements from saildrones YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Seasonal Ice and Changes in the Chukchi Sea: A Decade of Ice Draft Observations YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Assessing Niche Conservatism and Niche Packing Patterns in African and Southeast Asian Communities of Cyprinoidei YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Strategic mooring placement for monitoring water mass exchange through channels YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Synechococcus abundance and biomass in the Northern Bering and Chukchi seas YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• The zooplankton community in the north Bering Sea responds differently to contrasting warm and cold periods YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Monitoring ocean acidification in Alaska's marine ecosystem YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Diurnal cycle of sea surface temperature in frontal regions and reflections on an Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS) YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Changing spring phenology in the Gulf of Alaska and implications for fish and fisheries YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• The connection between physiology, ecology, and life histories from a macroecological perspective YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• More rare events in the Arctic YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Ocean, ice and atmosphere in the changing Arctic YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Upper ocean carbon cycle dynamics YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• A dive into Chukchi Sea nutrient cycling YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Snow crab in a rapidly changing ocean YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Climate Change and Alaska Marine Ecosystem YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Effects of Climate Change on Zooplankton Communities YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• The Science of Sea-Bird Scientific YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Winter in the Changing Arctic: Overwintering Onboard RV Polarstern YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• An Old, New Threat: Increasing Fisheries and Seabird Bycatch in the Canadian Arctic YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• The Contribution of Diet to the Dramatic Reduction of the 2013 Year-Class of Age-0 Pollock in the Western Gulf of Alaska YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Lightning Talks Fall 2020-Labrador Sea Freshening, Summer pCO2 Dynamics, Ocean Acidification Indices YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Communities: Finding Courage, Compassion, and Commitment to Act in the Arctic and South Pacific YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• From the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Alaska: Impacts of oceanography on fish early life stages YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Improved Biophysical Observations from a Profiling Moored Observing Platform in the SE Bering Sea YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Chukchi Sea Ice Draft: multiple years and changing seasons near Icy Cape, Alaska YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Warm anomalies at depth in the northwestern Gulf of Alaska in summer 2019 YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Phylogenomic analysis of flatfishes based on exon-capture data YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• The Big Arctic Melt... YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Runaway Change in the Arctic? Extreme 2016 Temperatures YouTube & mp4 & script & website

• Was the record warm winter 2016 another Arctic Surprise? YouTube & mp4 & RunawayArcticAbstract.pdf & website & video description pdf‌ & script

Miscellaneous

• Biofouling of moorings at Station Papa Instagram & mp4

• Happy National Intern Day! PMEL's Interns, 2025 YouTube & mov & Instagram

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