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NODD Office Hours - Emergency Response Imagery

NOAA Open Data Office Hours: NOAA Emergency Response Imagery in the Cloud

February 29, 2024

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Open Data Dissemination

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NODD Office Hours - Emergency Response Imagery

Photo of flooded town of Pajaro after heavy rain from an atmospheric river caused a levee to break. Monterey, California. March 12, 2023.

NOAA and NSF to create research center in response to insurance industry climate needs

May 16, 2023

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Photo of flooded town of Pajaro after heavy rain from an atmospheric river caused a levee to break. Monterey, California. March 12, 2023.

GOES-16 satellite image of Hurricane Ian as it was making landfall in Florida on September 28, 2022.

NOAA to speak on extreme events, disasters at AMS

January 4, 2023

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Billion-Dollar Disasters

natural disasters

climate impacts

GOES-16 satellite image of Hurricane Ian as it was making landfall in Florida on September 28, 2022.

Storm damage in Berlin Township, Ohio, from a derecho that moved through the region on June 13, 2022. This derecho is one of nine billion-dollar disasters to strike the U.S. so far in 2022.

NOAA tool now brings disaster risk, vulnerability down to community level

July 27, 2022

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natural disasters

climate impacts

Storm damage in Berlin Township, Ohio, from a derecho that moved through the region on June 13, 2022. This derecho is one of nine billion-dollar disasters to strike the U.S. so far in 2022.

NOAA to demonstrate new hyperlocal disaster-mapping tool

July 25, 2022

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natural disasters

A colorful food truck parked near the grounds of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.

Study: Natural disasters, pandemic took greater toll on businesses owned by women, minorities and veterans

February 14, 2022

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A colorful food truck parked near the grounds of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.

(Left) Hurricane Ida making landfall in Louisiana, as seen by the GOES-16 satellite on August 29, 2021. (Right) Smoke plumes from numerous California wildfires, as seen from the GOES-17 satellite on August 23, 2021. Ida and the western wildfires were two of the U.S. weather and climate disasters in 2021 that each exceeded $1 billion in damages. A new NOAA tool now pinpoints the risk of natural disasters across the U.S. down to county level.

New NOAA tool pinpoints natural disaster risk down to county level

December 9, 2021

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Billion-Dollar Disasters

natural disasters

(Left) Hurricane Ida making landfall in Louisiana, as seen by the GOES-16 satellite on August 29, 2021. (Right) Smoke plumes from numerous California wildfires, as seen from the GOES-17 satellite on August 23, 2021. Ida and the western wildfires were two of the U.S. weather and climate disasters in 2021 that each exceeded $1 billion in damages. A new NOAA tool now pinpoints the risk of natural disasters across the U.S. down to county level.

The social and economic impacts of COVID-19 have battered many small- and medium-sized enterprises, putting millions of jobs in the U.S. at risk. And a year rife with natural disasters (2020) has not helped already struggling businesses.

For businesses, natural disaster planning could help pandemic response

October 19, 2020

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The social and economic impacts of COVID-19 have battered many small- and medium-sized enterprises, putting millions of jobs in the U.S. at risk. And a year rife with natural disasters (2020) has not helped already struggling businesses.

One of the grants will complete the design and implementation for a breakwater and coastal marsh in Mobile Bay, on the east side of the Dauphin Island Causeway (above), in Alabama. It will also create and protect critical coastal marsh habitat and reduce the vulnerability of the only emergency and hurricane evacuation route between the mainland of south Mobile County and Dauphin Island.

More than $43 million in coastal resilience grants announced

March 17, 2020

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One of the grants will complete the design and implementation for a breakwater and coastal marsh in Mobile Bay, on the east side of the Dauphin Island Causeway (above), in Alabama. It will also create and protect critical coastal marsh habitat and reduce the vulnerability of the only emergency and hurricane evacuation route between the mainland of south Mobile County and Dauphin Island.

A fishing boat and crew working in waters off the U.S. Atlantic coastline

Secretary of Commerce allocates $65 million for fishery disasters

February 27, 2020

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commercial fishing

recreational fishing

A fishing boat and crew working in waters off the U.S. Atlantic coastline

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