MOBILE, Ala. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District Mississippi Coastal Improvement Program (MsCIP), and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) had a problem. NOAA deploys ...

HEATHER, HOW DO THESE BUOYS ACTUALLY WORK? HEATHER: THE GROUP OF 55 BUOYS, WHICH YOU SEE HERE, IS CALLED THE TAO ARRAY. "TAO" STANDING FOR TROPICAL ATMOSPHERE OCEAN. EACH BUOY MEASURES WIND, RELATIVE ...

OREGON, USA — The Pacific fleet of buoys is getting an upgrade, those are the buoys that help forecasters determine what the ocean conditions are like. This upgrade is coming at a great time, because ...

A small yellow buoy in the Gulf, nicknamed “Bob,” monitors wave height, wind speed and temperature to provide real-time information to the recreational fishing and diving communities. Federal ...

NOAA deployed the seventh in a series of "smart buoys" to monitor weather conditions and water quality in the Chesapeake Bay today. The buoy, located at the mouth of Severn River near Annapolis, Md., ...

Stakeholders with an interest in monitoring and preserving the health of Chesapeake Bay recently gathered at William & Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science to celebrate the launch of a NOAA ...

Too many of the weather buoys floating in the waters off Alaska are out of service and the federal government should devote more resources to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the ...