News & Announcements
Contract for 2 NOAA research ships awarded to Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors, LLC
NOAA will add two new ships to its fleet of groundbreaking research vessels. The agency selected Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors, LLC. for a $624.6 million contract to initially design and build two cutting-edge research vessels, with an option to purchase two more. The first two ships will be built in Houma, Louisiana, with an expected delivery date of 2027 and 2028.
Keel-laying ceremony held for new oceanographic research ship Discoverer
NOAA, the U.S. Navy and Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors (TMC), LLC., held a keel-laying ceremony today in Houma, Louisiana, for Discoverer, a new oceanographic research vessel being built for NOAA. The keel-laying ceremony marks the beginning of a ship’s construction. Second Gentleman Douglas C. Emhoff was named the ship’s sponsor.
NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson completes productive field season in the Great Lakes
NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson, a seafloor mapping and charting ship, completed a series of surveys in the Great Lakes in 2022. In all, the ship surveyed 450 square nautical miles of lake bottom in Lake Erie and 274 square nautical miles in Lake Ontario.
Meet the crew: Fisherman Josh Cooper
Civilian professional mariners play a critical role in the operation of NOAA's fleet of research and survey ships.
NOAA divers survey reefs and habitats in the Mariana Islands
NOAA divers conducted numerous coral and seafloor habitat studies in the Mariana Islands as part of the Rainier Integrates Charting, Hydrography, And Reef Demographics, or RICHARD, mission supported by NOAA Ship Rainier in 2022. Learn more about the mission in this story map.
Meet the Crew: Senior Survey Technician Andrea Stoneman
For this "meet the crew" profile, we asked Andrea Stoneman, who serves as Senior Survey Technician aboard NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson, to tell us about her role aboard the ship and what her path to NOAA was.
If you had asked me when I was a kid where I would be today, I certainly would not have imagined myself exploring the high seas in Alaska.
