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