WASHINGTON, July 19 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: NOAA Fisheries Alaska Fisheries Science Center has added a chief of staff to its leadership team. In this role, Dr. Elaina Jorgensen will lead a newly organized strategic support team to more efficiently provide products and services to both center staff and Alaska interested parties. "We have been undertaking a multi-year effort to strategically respond to climate-driven changes in the enviro  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Kemmerer Field Office issued the following news release: KEMMERER, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comment on the environmental assessment of proposed pipelines, powerlines, and transportation routes associated with the proposed Project West Trona Mine, which would be on private lands near Green River in Sweetwater County. Trona is a mineral used to make soda ash, an essential raw materi  more

WASHINGTON, July 20 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: NAVY Northrup Grumman Systems Corp. Aerospace Systems, Melbourne, Florida, is awarded a $1,456,019,386 modification (P00086) to a previously awarded fixed-priced-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost contract (N0001918C1037). This modification procures nine E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft (four for the Navy and five for Japan), to include over and above support. Work will be performed in Saint Augustine,  more

WASHINGTON, July 19 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: For the second year in a row, three experts successfully freed an entangled Steller sea lion in Kodiak. NOAA Fisheries' Kim Raum-Suryan and Alaska Department of Fish and Game's Lauri Jemison, along with veterinarian Dr. Kate One-year-old endangered female Steller sea lion back with mom after a successful entanglement response in 2023. Credit: NOAA Fisheries/Kim Raum-Suryan, NOAA permit No. 24  more

WASHINGTON, July 19 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: NOAA and the U.S. Coast Guard worked together this 4th of July to free an entangled humpback whale in the Port of Valdez, Prince William Sound. The NOAA Fisheries Alaska Marine Mammal Stranding Hotline received numerous reports late afternoon on July 3. A young humpback whale was entangled in the middle of the Port of Valdez, near Allison Point and the new harbor. The animal was believed to ha  more