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height: 100%; width: 100% !important;' alt="Happy Holidays from The Center for Satellite Applications and Research" title="Happy Holidays from The Center for Satellite Applications and Research"> </div> <div style='opacity: 0; position: relative;'> <div class='animCaption'> <div> <p class="date">November 4, 2024</p> <h2><a class="NoImage" href="https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/biden-harris-administration-noaa-award-76-million-for-flooding-extreme-precipitation-preparedness#:~:text=Today%2C%20the%20Department%20of%20Commerce,from%20floods%20and%20heavy%20precipitation">NOAA awards $7.6 million for flooding, extreme precipitation preparedness</a></h2> <p class="caption">Hurricane Helene caused record flooding and damage on September 28, 2024, in Asheville, NC.</p> <hr> <p class="details">On October 29, 2024, the Department of Commerce and NOAA announced $7.6 million in funding for <a href="https://ci.noaa.gov/">cooperative institutes</a> to transform satellite observations into information communities can use to prepare for and recover from floods and heavy precipitation.</p> <p class="details">The awards fund work to create street-level maps of potential flooding and inundation, improve models of how water cycles through the nation’s rivers and streams, and develop a new dataset of hourly-precipitation information to help businesses and communities better understand the effects of extreme rainfall.</p> <p class="details">• <a href="https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/biden-harris-administration-noaa-award-76-million-for-flooding-extreme-precipitation-preparedness#:~:text=Today%2C%20the%20Department%20of%20Commerce,from%20floods%20and%20heavy%20precipitation">Read the full NOAA article.</a></p> </div> </div> <img src='images/2024/rotatorContent/Heavy-rains0Hurricane-Helene-caused-record-flooding-damage-092824-Asheville-North-Carolina-GettyImages-2174622445.jpg' alt='image: NOAA award $76 million for flooding extreme precipitation preparedness' title='image: NOAA award $76 million for flooding extreme precipitation preparedness' class='imageCoverFit'> </div> <div style='opacity: 0; position: relative;'> <div class='animCaption'> <div> <p class="date">October 23, 2024</p> <h2><a class="NoImage" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/global-coral-reef-bleaching-event-largest-on-record-report/">Report: Global coral reef bleaching event is largest on record</a></h2> <p class="caption">Ongoing 2024 bleaching event impacting 74 coastal countries</p> <hr> <p class="details"> New data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has scientists ringing alarm bells about the health of the world's oceans. 77% of the world's coral reefs have experienced "bleaching-level heat stress" over the last 22 months. Derek Manzello, coordinator of NOAA's Coral Reef Watch program, joins CBS News to dive deeper into the research.</p> <p class="details"><strong style='color #02336a;'>"Currently the world's oceans are hotter than they've ever been in any recorded history."</strong> - Derek Manzello, Coral Reef Watch Coordinator</p> <p class="details">• <a class="NoImage" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/global-coral-reef-bleaching-event-largest-on-record-report/">Watch the full CBS Report from 10/23/2024</a></p> </div> </div> <img src='images/2024/rotatorContent/CoralBleachingEvent_CBS2.jpg' alt='image: CBS Story on 2024 Coral Bleaching Event, October 2024' title='image: CBS Story on 2024 Coral Bleaching Event, October 2024' class='imageCoverFit'> </div> <div style='opacity: 0; position: relative;'> <div class='animCaption'> <div> <p class="date">September 20, 2024</p> <h2><a href="">NOAA invest $1.1 million to improve satellite-based flood monitoring in Alaska</a></h2> <p class="caption">Alaska’s ‘unique’ challenges call for better flood forecasting, monitoring data</p> <hr> <p class="details"> Today the Department of Commerce and NOAA announced a $1.1 million funding opportunity for satellite-based monitoring of floods and ice-jam events in Alaska. These funds are made possible by the Biden-Harris Administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, the largest climate investment in U.S. history.</p> <p class="details">STAR's Sean Helfrich (Water Surface Conditions /SAR Applications Lead) has a leading role in evaluating proposals for this funding opportunity, which will support up to three years of work. </p> <p class="details">• <a href="https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/356448">Grants.gov Funding Opportunity details</a></p> <p class="details">• <a href="https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/biden-harris-administration-noaa-invest-11-million-to-improve-satellite-based-flood-monitoring">NOAA News Story</a></p> <p class="details">• <a href="https://www.noaa.gov/inflation-reduction-act">NOAA’s Inflation Reduction Act web portal</a></p> </div> </div> <img src='images/2024/rotatorContent/KuskokwimRvr_20240509_NWS.jpg' alt='Kuskokwim River, Alaska, May 9, 2024 - photo credit: Alaska-Pacific RFC River Forecast Center and the NOAA RiverWatch Program' title='image: Kuskokwim River, Alaska, May 9, 2024 - photo credit: Alaska-Pacific RFC River Forecast Center and the NOAA RiverWatch Program' class='imageCoverFit'> </div> <div style='opacity: 0; position: relative;'> <div class='animCaption'> <div> <p class="date">September 12, 2024</p> <h2><a href="">GOES Imagery Tracks Francine</a></h2> <p class="caption">STAR GOES site is a key storm monitoring resource</p> <hr> <p class="details"> On September 8, the NOAA National Hurricane Center (NHC) identified a large low pressure disturbance over the Gulf of Mexico. Now, as named storm Francine, the hurricane dumped heavy rainfall and produced dangerous winds on Louisiana and Mississippi coasts.</p> <p class="details">The STAR GOES imagery site produces images that follow the storm position data from the NHC. GOES storm pages are then referenced by both the NHC and by NOAA's Hurricane Francine pages. The GOES Imagery site does this for every NHC-tracked tropical storm in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific regions.</p> <p class="details">• <a href="https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at1.shtml?start#contents">NHC Francine forecast & details</a></p> <p class="details">• <a href="https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/floater.php?stormid=AL062024">GOES Imagery for Francine</a></p> </div> </div> <img src='images/2024/rotatorContent/HurricaneFrancine_20240910.jpg' alt='image: Hurricane Francine, 10 September 2024' title='image: Hurricane Francine, 10 September 2024' class='imageCoverFit'> </div> <div style='opacity: 0; position: relative;'> <div class='animCaption'> <div> <p class="date">July 25, 2024</p> <h2><a href="https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2024/07/biden-harris-administration-advances-early-wildfire-detection-expanding">Biden-Harris Administration Advances Wildfire Detection by Expanding Use of Satellites</a></h2>  <hr> <p class="details"> A collaborative agreement for use of NOAA satellites will help the Interior and Agriculture Departments detect wildfires early, track wildfires in real time, and provide data for public safety and air quality modeling. Supported by a $20 million investment from the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law - $10 million each from Interior and Agriculture - this new agreement will use advanced remote sensing capabilities to improve the speed and accuracy of wildfire detection.</p> <p class="details">Agreement signatories:</p> <p class="details">• <a href="https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2024/07/biden-harris-administration-advances-early-wildfire-detection-expanding">Dept. of Commerce</a></p> <p class="details">• <a href="https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/biden-harris-administration-advances-early-wildfire-detection-expanding-use">Dept. of Interior</a></p> <p class="details">• <a href="https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2024/07/23/biden-harris-administration-advances-early-wildfire-detection">Dept. of Agriculture</a></p> </div> </div> <img src='images/2024/rotatorContent/wildfire_detection_tools_700_478.jpg' alt='photo: wildfire monitoring in NOAA office' title='photo: wildfire monitoring at NOAA office' class='imageCoverFit'> </div> <div style='opacity: 0; position: relative;'> <div class='animCaption'> <div> <p class="date">April 16, 2024</p> <h2><a href="https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-confirms-4th-global-coral-bleaching-event">NOAA Confirms 4th global coral bleaching event</a></h2>  <hr> <p class="details"> The world is currently experiencing a global coral bleaching event, the fourth global event on record and the second in the last 10 years. </p> <p class="details">"From February 2023 to April 2024, significant coral bleaching has been documented in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres of each major ocean basin," said Derek Manzello, Ph.D., NOAA Coral Reef Watch coordinator.</p> <p class="details"> <a href="https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-confirms-4th-global-coral-bleaching-event">See NOAA's complete story</a></p> </div> </div> <img src='images/2024/rotatorContent/4thCoralBleaching_700x487px.jpg' alt='photo: coral bleaching in July 2022, NOAA education program' title="photo: coral bleaching in July 2022, NOAA education program" class='imageCoverFit'> </div> <div style='opacity: 0; position: relative;'> <div class='animCaption'> <div> <p class="date">February 5, 2024</p> <h2><a href="news_20240207_methane.php">New Product Shows Promise for Methane Monitoring</a></h2> <p class="caption">“The potential for this technique is enormous,” — Shobha Kondragunta, STAR</p> <hr> <p class="details">This new geostationary data product has great potential to <a class="NoImage" href="https://spacenews.com/video-replay-not-invisible-anymore-how-satellites-monitor-atmospheric-methane/">improve our ability to monitor methane emissions</a>, which are second only to carbon dioxide in warming effects. The technique was introduced in a <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2310797120" class="NoImage">recent paper</a> by Harvard scientists. </p> <p class="details">• <a class="NoImage" href="https://spacenews.com/abi-shows-promise-for-methane-monitoring/">Read the article</a></p>  </div> </div> <img src='images/2024/rotatorContent/MethaneFigureRotator_20240205.jpg' alt='May 2019 methane plume as depicted in a new GOES data product, image credit: Daniel J. Varon' title='May 2019 methane plume as depicted in a new GOES data product, image credit: Daniel J. 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The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season got off to a quick start, but had stalled in recent weeks before Francine. It has now produced six storms, four of which became hurricanes.</p> <p>STAR's GOES-East geocolor image of the storm is featured.</p> <p>Read more in the <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-atlantic-hurricane-season/francine/">Bloomberg News story</a>.</p> </div> <button class="expand_text" onclick="expandText(this)">More</button> </div> <br> <hr> <br> <div class="newsFeature"> <a href='images/2024/InTheNews/MarshallCoWildfire2021_800x400.jpg' class="fancybox"><img src='images/2024/InTheNews/MarshallCoWildfire2021_800x400.jpg' style="width: 100%;" class="bordered shiningStars inthenews" alt="photo: Marshall Colorado Wildfire, December 2021"></a> <h3>AI and satellite imaging doing early wildfire detection in Colorado</h3> <div class="text-container"> <p><strong>July 30, 2024 - </strong> This week the Denver Post reports on a new artificial intelligence program — the Next Generation Fire System — which will help identify wildfires as small as an acre by scanning images taken by weather satellites orbiting about 22,000 miles above the Earth’s surface. 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