Alaska NOAA Locations and Partners

NOAA facilities and vessels within the regional include the following:

• Alaska Fisheries Science Center (main offices in Juneau and Seattle; labs in Auke Bay, Kodiak, Dutch Harbor, Anchorage, Little Port Walter, and Newport, OR)
• NOAA Fisheries Alaska Regional Office(Juneau, Anchorage)
  • NOAA Fisheries Enforcement Offices
• National Weather Service Alaska Region
  • Headquarters (Anchorage)
  • 3 Weather Forecast Offices (Fairbanks, Anchorage, Juneau)
  • 12 Weather Service Offices
  • Alaska Aviation Weather Unit
  • Anchorage Center Weather Service Unit
  • Alaska-Pacific River Forecast Center
• NOAA Kasitsna Bay Laboratory offsite link (Homer and Seldovia)
• NOAA Fairbanks Command and Data Acquisition Station (Fairbanks/Gilmore Creek)
• NOAA Barrow Observatory (Barrow)
• NOAA Ships 
  • Fairweather (Ketchikan)
  • Oscan Dyson (Kodiak)
  • Rainier (Newport, OR)

Partnerships

In addition to employees and facilities, NOAA enjoys close partnerships with regional entities, including but not limited to:

• Alaska Ocean Observing System offsite link
• Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy offsite link
• Alaska Sea Grant offsite link
• Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies offsite link
• Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve offsite link

Programs in Alaska

For information on some of NOAA’s various programs in Alaska, see the NOAA in Your State page for Alaska. In addition, you can follow NOAA activities through our facebook pages:

• NOAA Fisheries Alaska
• Cooperative Institute for Climate, Ocean, and Ecosystem Studies
• Kachemak Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
• Alaska Center for Climate Assessment & Policy
• Alaska Ocean Observing System
• Alaska Sea Grant
• NWS Alaska Region