The 2024 conference was the 52nd held by NOAA. Senate Joint Resolution 12 was pending in the Senate Rules Committee as of Friday. An oil tanker is docked at the Trans Alaska Pipeline System’s ...

Senate Joint Resolution 12, calls for Congress to “take actions necessary to restore the full functionality,” of the NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center meteorological sites in Alaska ...

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 ...

[Resolution pending in Alaska Legislature urges more federal support for NOAA weather buoys] The employees’ data, which goes back to 2015, showed that in March 2015 the overall vacancy rate was 9.3%.

NOAA’s Alaska Science and Research Director said the agency will continue its mission to provide the science behind ...