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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    Maria Cantwell Says Cuts to NOAA Threaten West Coast's Response to Tsunami Debris

    President Barack Obama's proposed cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration may be endangering the West Coast's ability to cope with the fallout from the Japanese tsunami headed our way. So charged U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell during a grilling of NOAA head Jane Lubchenco.

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2012

    Dangerous Times For Puget Sound Sea Lions; Rash of Killings Prompts Reward Offer

    ​NOAA investigators are mystified as to why eight California sea lions -- seven of them with bullet fragments in their carcass -- have washed up on south Puget Sound shores since Dec. 1. "This is quite unusual, and we don't know what's happening -- and we want to know," NOAA Fisheries Brian Go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2012

    This Snow Deal Could Be Real; Major Storm Moving In

    All scoffing aside, the Daily Weekly is now ready to face up to the realization that a major snow storm could smack us like a hard, cold fist on Wednesday and might even break records at Sea-Tac Airport. Sunday's feather dusting, which yielded to this morning's icy roads could seem like a day at the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    Japan Tsunami Debris May Not Be Giant Floating Field of Doom After All

    Scientists and government officials initially believed that the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan last year sent millions of tons of trash on a collision course with Hawaii and the West Coast. But nine months later, the flotsam is still lost at sea somewhere and perhaps not nearly as enor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2011

    Shellfish Industry Hopes New Initative Fast Tracks Farm Permits

    ​Washington shellfish farmers hope a new statewide initiative to develop and promote aquaculture will result in a simpler permitting process for oyster, clam, mussel and geoduck farms. The Washington Shellfish Initiative is the first project announced in conjunction with the National Oceanic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    Washington State Gets Its Very Own Coastal Doppler Radar System

    Seattle Storm mascot "Doppler" approves.​Weather forecasting in notoriously tricky-to-predict Washington State just got a bit easier this week with the launch of a new, state-of-the-art coastal Doppler radar system. Kudos can be sent to Sen. Maria Cantwell, C/O local weather savant Cliff Mass ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    The Best Graffiti in Seattle?

    ​We ain't New York City, but when it comes to graffiti, Seattle's crop of street artists holds its own. Don't believe me? Check out the specimen after the jump.

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2011

    Osprey Nest on NOAA Ship Makes for a Race Against Eggs

    ​Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration would really like to take the ship that's docked at the Sand Point Facility on Lake Washington out into the ocean for some research. Unfortunately, a pair of federally protected ospreys have other plans.

  • News

    October 13, 2010

    Patty Murray: The Naked Truth

    Could Washington go pork-free?

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    This Is the Warmest Year Ever Recorded

    ​There's never been a hotter year than this year. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has been tracking temperature measurements for both the water and the land since 1880, and so far 2010 is registering at about one degree above the 20th century average. Pretty, possibly apoca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Oregon Senator Ron Wyden on Port of Bellingham Bid For NOAA Center: We're Rubber, You're Glue...

    If Senator Wyden had his way, the NOAA would still be headed south. ​Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) is down for his. And by that, I mean his constituents, whose side he's jumped in on in the ongoing political slapfight between the Port of Newport (Oregon) and the Port of Bellingham over which w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2009

    NOAA Thumbs Its Nose at 'Rising Political Star' Maria Cantwell

    NOAA to Cantwell: We'll put our boats wherever we damn well please.​The Daily Beast named junior Senator Maria Cantwell a rising political star, but apparently the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is unimpressed. The Oregon Daily Journal of Commerce reported yesterday that NOA ... More >>

  • News

    December 9, 2009

    Bellingham's Gotcha on Oregon

    The battle to snag an NOAA base heats up.

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Bellingham Pulls a Good Gotcha on Oregon, But It May Not Be Enough to Keep NOAA Jobs in Seattle

    noaa.govThe Okeanos Explorer in Seattle earlier this year. Headed for a floodplain in Oregon?​Last August, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced it would be moving its Pacific Marine Operations Center from Lake Union to Newport, Ore. in 2011. But yesterday the Governmen ... More >>

  • News

    November 18, 2009

    Cover Story: Critical Mass

    A Carl Sagan protégé who bikes to work on the Burke is changing the way weather is forecasted in America.

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    Scary NOAA Charts & Graphs!

    ​El Nino? La Nina? Make up your damn mind already! (Sorry, our blog software doesn't do diacritical marks.) September and now October have proven to be remarkably mild and dry; and there's hardly been a trace of precip that would fall as snow in the mountains. Local weather guru Cliff Mass say ... More >>

  • Food

    July 14, 2004

    Other Fish in the Sea

    So why are you still eating toothfish?

  • Food

    April 21, 2004

    Downtown Kirkland

    So why are you still eating toothfish?

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