The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center Conducts Education and Career Projects Through NOPP

The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center is a national partnership of organizations that works to identify the knowledge and skills needed for a variety of marine science careers to better prepare America’s workforce for ocean occupations.  The MATE Center works with educators, marine industries, professional societies, and research institutions to help develop courses, curriculum, […] Read more

Spotlight on Partnerships: Cornell Bioacoustics Research Program

Over the years, the Cornell Bioacoustics Research Program has applied for and been awarded several grants through NOPP funding announcements.  In this month’s Spotlight on Partnerships, the NOPP Office decided to ask the group some questions, to find out more about how they learned about NOPP and why they keep participating in the program. Read more

NOPP Program Update: April 2012

Members of the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) Office staff attended the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Marine Mammal Program Review Poster Session and Reception on April 17 in Arlington, Virginia. Read more

New Publication from NOPP-Funded Tropical Cyclone Research

The NOPP Office would like to congratulate Takemasa Miyoshi and Masaru Kunii on their recent publication in the Journal of Pure and Applied Physics titled “The Local Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter with the Weather Research and Forecasting Model: Experiments with Real Observations.” This publication was the result of a three year NOPP-funded project. Read more

BOEM Releases Ocean Science Journal, Volume 9 Issue 1

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has released Volume 9, Issue 1 of BOEM Ocean Science, their quarterly Science and Technology Journal, BOEM’s first publication following their recent reorganization.  The journal is a compilation of the most recent ocean science and offshore energy information and research. Read more

NOPP Program Update: March 2012

Staff from the NOPP Program Office attended the annual project review of the Fiscal Year 2009 NOPP topic, Improving Tropical Cyclone Intensity Models, in Miami, Florida in March. Funded Primary Investigators (PIs) gave presentations to update the NOPP Office and Program Managers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on their projects. A summary report will be available soon. Read more

New Publication from NOPP-Funded Project

The NOPP Office would like to congratulate Kenneth Foote from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and his colleagues, Mardi Hastings, Darlene Ketten, Ying-Tsong Lin, Joy Reidenberg, and Kent Rye, on their recent publication in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, titled “Sonar-induced pressure fields on a post-mortem common dolphin.”  The researchers investigated the […] Read more