As the new year approaches, NOAA ships and independent contractors are preparing for the nations 177th hydrographic surveying season, aiming to collect critically needed ocean and coastal mapping data for 2,525 square nautical miles in high-traffic coastal waters of the…

NOAA unveiled a web archive of the maps, wildlife reports, scientific reports and other previously released public information used by emergency responders, fishermen, mariners and local officials during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The NOAA Deepwater Horizon Library can be…

Chris Russell, principal investigator for NASA's Dawn mission, explains how new images obtained by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope help his mission refine plans for Dawn's rendezvous with the large asteroid Vesta in July 2011. Image credit: NASA/ESA/STScI/UMd WASHINGTON -- NASA's…

WASHINGTON -- During a period of universal warming 11 billion years ago, quasars -- the brilliant core of active galaxies -- produced fierce radiation blasts that stunted the growth of some dwarf galaxies for approximately 500 million years. This important…

The United States has joined other Arctic Coastal States in a mutual effort to develop nautical charts that will improve the safety of mariners transiting the Arctic. At a meeting in Ottawa, representatives from Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the…

VANCOUVER, Wash. Underground magma movement was the trigger of a swarm of 30,000 earthquakes in Saudi Arabia last year, according to a new study published in Nature Geoscience Sunday. The swarm occurred in the Harrat Lunayyir lava field near the…

$2 Million for New Center and Research & Development PHOENIX Arizona is poised to become a major player in the multi-billion dollar algaebiofuel industry, and Governor Jan Brewer today dedicated two million dollars to support important research and development that…

Elevated concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus, nutrients that can negatively impact aquatic ecosystems and human health, have remained the same or increased in many streams and aquifers across the Nation since the early 1990s, according to a new national study…

Restoring Desert Soils Could Lessen Impacts of Climate Change WASHINGTON Dust caused by human activities in the American desert Southwest is a contributing factor in speeding up the melting of snow and reducing runoff in the mountains of the Colorado…

$100,000 to the Science Foundation Arizona STEM Initiative PHOENIX Science Foundation Arizona has been allocated $100,000 to support the creation of a Statewide STEM Action Network. This network will coordinate a proactive, integrated statewide approach for education in Arizona in…

The city of Phoenix, in partnership with VisionGate, Inc., is opening the world's first biomedical 3D cellular imaging lab. The Cell-CTâ„¢ research lab, located on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus in downtown Phoenix, is seeking proposals from researchers in universities and…

PORTLAND, Oregon - The potential for outbreaks of spruce and mountain pine beetles in western North Americas forests is likely to increase significantly in the coming decades, according to a study conducted by USDA Forest Service researchers and their colleagues.…