This collection features oral histories with NOAA staff who worked on charting the coasts of the United States of America.
This collection features oral histories with NOAA staff who worked on charting the coasts of the United States of America.
This image shows what the NOAA Custom Chart looks like for the area near San Francisco, California. With this free online tool, it's easy to zoom in and explore this region, or any area covered by NOAA's 3.2 million square nautical miles of charts. And once you find what you're looking for, it's just as easy to download a printable digital copy. (Image credit: NOAA)
Bob Hansen
Through his tenure at NOAA, Bob Hansen served as a a map maker, NOAA historian, a writer, a sign language interpreter, a constituent affairs specialist, and finally, a national outreach coordinator for the Office of Education.