James Binniker has been selected as the new director of the NOAA Office of Law Enforcement. With nearly 30 years of experience in law enforcement, marine resource protection, and maritime security operations, James brings a wealth of expertise and leadership to NOAA's mission of safeguarding our nation's marine resources, places, and habitats and promoting sustainable fisheries management.

We launched a new web page about our scenario planning efforts! Scenario planning is a structured process that helps us and other organizations consider risks and options in the face of a changing climate. It’s a valuable tool that helps us assess the ways that climate, oceans, and human activities might change—and what the best options may be to promote resilience and adaptation under those changing conditions.

Tribal Research Coordinator Mabel Baldwin-Schaeffer talks about the Ecosystems and Fisheries Oceanography Coordinated Investigations Fall Mooring cruise’s mission and the legacy of an Alaskan fishing pioneer—after whom the research vessel is named.

Several teams from our stranding network responded to a killer whale stranded on Carmel Beach on the Central California Coast last week. Unfortunately the animal died in transit to a rehabilitation facility in Santa Cruz.

New research indicates that recovering populations of predators—such as harbor seals—can derail salmon and steelhead recovery, especially when fish populations are small and struggling. 

New research about the diets of two populations of North Pacific resident killer whales can inform conservation strategies for endangered Southern Residents.

We identified that Bryde’s whales are the source of a new whale call in the western North Pacific. Working with Google AI, we used machine learning to sort through thousands of hours of acoustic recordings and identify when and where these calls occur.

Join the crew of NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter as they set sail for Leg 2 of the Vessel Survey for Abundance and Distribution on Marine Mammals and Seabirds.

Research fishery biologist Carrie Sinclair recounts the various marine mammal sightings made by the crew of NOAA Ship Gordon Gunter in the first week of Leg 2 of the Vessel Survey for Abundance and Distribution on Marine Mammals and Seabirds.

Learn how we’re helping teachers and students understand climate change—and take relevant action—in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

An international partnership led by the Passamaquoddy Tribe will improve access to 600 miles and 60,000 acres of habitat to alewives and other sea-run fish. The work could result in the return of 80 million adult spawning alewives.