Mobilize internal agents and external partners to support impacted communities with immediate needs and provide assistance in damage and vulnerability assessments.

Provides real time weather briefings to local, state, and federal decision makers regarding the potential impacts from a weather event.

Supports training for state coastal managers.

Manages and operates the Aircraft Operations Center (AOC) and the Marine Operations Centers.

Participates in immediate response to natural disasters, hazardous spill events, damage assessment, and restoration activities.

Develops products and services through research that helps us understand and document environmental change.

Provides ships and aircraft with response capabilities for unpredictable events.

Provides products, tools, and services to help emergency responders, coastal planners, individuals, and businesses make decisions to save lives, protect property, and mitigate damage.

Provides weather, water, and climate forecasts to the public.

Combats illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing

Develops and deploys new observing technologies that support predictive models and to document natural variability.

Conducts experiments to understand natural processes (physical, geochemical, ecological).

Staff Incident Command Posts, as needed, to provide local expertise and technical assistance regarding protected resources and guidance and/or to support field activities including wildlife response and Shoreline Cleanup and Assessment Tech