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Science teacher Spencer Cody and his students live in rural South Dakota, a place Cody describes as a “pole of inaccessibility.” Geographically isolated from the ocean by 1,000 miles in every…

Key Findings Trends in tropical cyclone (TC) frequency of occurrence (or TC density) at a global scale since 1980 exhibit a distinct spatial pattern, with increases and decreases in TC occurrence…

For NOAA’s 50th anniversary, we are highlighting oral history interviews from 24 employees — some retired, some still working — who have made a mark on the agency. Oral historian Molly Graham walks…

Last year, an autonomous surface vehicle named “BEN” plied the waters of Lake Huron, creating a detailed map of the seafloor in Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Ninety-nine shipwrecks have…