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Manages and operates the Aircraft Operations Center (AOC) and the Marine Operations Centers.
OMAO
Compiles surveys for wreckage, such as airplane crashes.
OMAO
Aerial images of disaster-torn areas—taken by NOAA aircraft—enabled residents and emergency workers to verify the condition of houses, bridges and roads.
OMAO
Following hurricanes, NOAA ships conduct emergency surveys for navigation hazards that help ports reopen quickly.
OMAO
Provides platforms that can use echo-sounders to monitor for oil and gas releases.
OMAO
Manages platforms that can be used to collect water samples and conduct open ocean research.
OMAO
Conducts emergency surveys for navigation hazards that help ports reopen quickly.
OMAO
Provides ships and aircraft with response capabilities for unpredictable events.
OMAO
Provides hydrographic survey, oceanographic, atmospheric, and fisheries research vessels.
OMAO
Provides hazardous weather warnings and additional weather-related products to the public.
NWS
Manages the NOAA Diving Program, NOAA Small Boat Program, and NOAA Aviation Safety Program to ensure safe and efficient NOAA field operations.
OMAO
Manages and operates NOAA's fleet of 16 research and survey ships and 9 aircraft.
OMAO
Mobilize internal agents and external partners to support impacted communities with immediate needs and provide assistance in damage and vulnerability assessments.
OAR
Collect, manage, and share observational and modeling data for immediate and future prediction and mitigation efforts.
OAR
Improves NOAA’s forecast of hurricane surface winds, storm tracks, and ocean conditions through research and observations.
OAR
Develops products and services through research that helps us understand and document environmental change.
OAR
Prepares scientific assessments and information products to enhance public education and guide governmental action
OAR
Use new information technology to share information with other federal and academic scientists.
OAR
Develops new analytical and forecast tools to improve weather services.
OAR
Develops and deploys new observing technologies that support predictive models and to document natural variability.
OAR
Builds predictive models for use in weather, air quality, climate, solar, ocean, emergency management, and coastal assessments and predictions.
OAR
Conducts experiments to understand natural processes (physical, geochemical, ecological).
OAR
Provides on site support to EOCs or ICPs, as requested, for major weather events or other emergency operations where weather is a factor.
NWS
Provides real time weather briefings to local, state, and federal decision makers regarding the potential impacts from a weather event.
NWS
Provides spot weather forecasts for fires and other emergency operations.
NWS
Provides emergency alerts and issues warnings during life-threatening weather situations.
NWS
Issues around 1.5 million forecasts, and 50,000 warnings.
NWS
Collects approximately 76 billion observations.
NWS
Provides hazardous weather warnings and additional weather-related products to the public.
NWS
Provides weather, water, and climate forecasts to the public.
NWS
Assists coastal managers with the decisions they need to make before, during, and after environmental events.
NOS
Participates in immediate response to natural disasters, hazardous spill events, damage assessment, and restoration activities.
NOS
Provides critical scientific or technical support for an emergency response to protect coastal communities.
NOS
Supports training for state coastal managers.
NOS
Supports states in protecting resources and guiding economic development in coastal areas.
NOS
Manages 14 national marine sanctuaries and 2 national monuments and provides funding to coastal states to manage 29 national estuarine research reserves.
NOS
Provides products, services, and data, such as nautical charts and tidal and water-level monitoring.
NOS
Provides products, tools, and services to help emergency responders, coastal planners, individuals, and businesses make decisions to save lives, protect property, and mitigate damage.
NOS
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
NMFS
Provides federal law enforcement services including patrols, investigations, and surveillance in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and can also support disaster response
NMFS
Can authorize closing fishing activities in federal waters if there is a concern for seafood safety.
NMFS
Oversee, coordinate, and authorize stranding network responses to marine mammal and sea turtle strandings.
NMFS
Commands and controls remotely sensed Search And Rescue (SARSAT) operations to detect personnel in distress.
NESDIS
Produces interpretive satellite products to support prediction, mitigation, and recovery efforts for incidents and natural disasters.
NESDIS
Monitors severe weather 24x7; switches to Rapid Scan Operations (RSO), if needed.
NESDIS
Produces high-resolution imagery to support emergency management and local decision-makers.
NESDIS
Promotes effective conservation and management measures for fisheries and protected species throughout the world.
NMFS
Combats illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing
NMFS
Assess & predicts fish stock status, establishes catch limits, reduces bycatch, and ensures compliance with fisheries regulations.
NMFS
Recovers and maintains protected species populations.
NMFS
Protects and restores living marine resources and their habitats to help sustain fisheries.
NMFS
Maintains one of the most significant archives of environmental data on Earth
NESDIS
Provides definitive assessments of the US and global climate
NESDIS
Provides data and imagery for predictive environmental and atmospheric modeling
NESDIS
Acquires next-generation Earth observation satellites
NESDIS
Commands and controls NOAA-owned and NOAA-operated satellites 24/7.
NESDIS