i have been rather vocal about noah noaa noaa -- --noaa having a lead as the authoritative store -- a source for climate products and services just as we are for weather, charts, fishery stocks, etc.. i think that is a required capability. >> so the data is unrestricted to congress. teacher advances have been made in our ability to monitor -- major advances have been made in our ability to monitor air quality with satellites. i am glad that noaa is partnering to monitor air quality during daylight in a higher spatial resolution. can you describe how noaa is contributing to this mission and how air quality monitoring will contribute to agency decision-making? i am excited to see that offshore wind is being considered in the west coast. because of the deeper water, we require new technology. his noaa prepared for upcoming sales on those projects as early as next year? >> we are working very closely with our colleagues at interior specifically on the borough of ocean management on executives issues. >> exciting. i yield back. thank you. >> ms. lofgren is recognized. >> first, thank you f

but noaa, as the civilian ocean science agency of the u.s., noaa is a 12 billion dollar agency trapped in a much larger budget. when i compare that to the objectives that have been allocated to us by congress, if i stack those authorizations up, we just can't afford to do them all. we do not work in isolation. we are not a solo act as a federal agency. we work with other agencies, of course. we also provide much of our funding and we enjoy the fruits of the academic community, places like doctor crosby institution, we find all these components. we are just not doing enough and so there are gaps already for us to take more action. we need more resources, however, then we have available. >> thanks. and then as i mentioned in my opening statement, we spend relatively little on ocean science. in fact, a fraction of a percent of our gdp is allocated to ocean science. a recent un report found that the global average for ocean science spending is only 1.7% of gdp. it also found that countries with the strongest relative growth in ocean science over the last few years, including china, iran an

noaa aa mclean: thank you. thank you for the opportunity to testify and i speak care as the acting chief scientist of noaa and my permit position as the assistant administrator for ocean and atmospheric research. i'm also the representative for the united states and intergovernmental oceanographic commission which created the decade of ocean science. i and four americans were among 20 individual selected globally who guided the development of this decade of ocean science. my commitment and greetings to our two other panelists, dr. ballard, an inspiration in ocean exploration and dr. crosby who is had quite a history including noah. the writings of rachel carson gave warning and inspiration and shot cousteau gave warning and inspiration about the importance of our ocean environment. those warnings produced environmental legislation to clean the air, the water, the ocean and our economy have both , and our environment prospered since. today america's blue economy is , worth $373 billion in gdp. but today's warnin

a network of noaa programs. he served as the representative to the ocean graphic mission and served on the u.n. decade of ocean science for sustainable development. and served in other leadership roles in noaa and founder of the ocean research and initiative. and our next witness is dr. margaret linen. the director of the scripps institution of oceaniography and dean at the school of marine science at san diego. an award-winning oceaniographer and environmental issues. previously she served as rice probose for marine and environmental initiatives and she also served as assistant director of geo sciences and coordinator environmental research at nsf. and director of the u.n. decade of ocean science for sustainable development and a fellow of numerous scientific societies. our third witness is dr. michael p. crosby. dr. crosby is the president and ceo of the remote marine laboratory and aquarium, an independent research institution that's been a leader for more than 60 years. he has more than 30 years of multidisc

crosby who has had quite a history including noaa. the writings of rachel carson gave warnings and inspiration about the importance of our ocean environment. those warnings produced environmental legislation to clean the air, the water, the ocean and our economy have both, and our environment prospered since. today, america's blue economy is worth $373 billion in gdp. but today's warnings again appear to include plastics pollution, pirate fishing, and those of the climate crisis. ecosystem tipping points, ocean acidification, choral death, harmful algae blooms, sea level rise, and others. in response the intergovernmental oceanographic commission created the u.n decade of ocean science for sustainable development. there has been a dearth of national and international investment in ocean science that i fear has generated consequences. we do not allow ourselves to think big enough. how is it that since 1960 the deepest diving vehicles in the united states have come from private individuals, james cameron and victor viscovo. the oceans a

the satellite component of noaa. and launch of these satellites with high-resolution advanced baseline imagers. the smoke observations that come from them with incredibly high-resolution has been phenomenal. another aspect of those is being able to spot the fires. it has become one of the earliest indicators that you have a fire in your neighborhood is what we are seeing on one of these images. we are there in providing the observations. with air quality forecast, whatever we produce we provide to the states and the local communities that make the air quality assessments and related protections. we do have the tools, the improved tools to get to them. are they good enough from the health vector perspective? that's an interesting question. it's probably another basis for an extensive research effort to be able to have the more exact quantification of the nature of the smoke, the size of the particles etc. to be able to relate those. it is certainly an interest in terms of the larger medical community of what can be do

research that noaa does, fisheries management. our fisheries are endaged around the world. and atmospheric observation at places like monday low a here in hawaii hawaii. the last four years have been defensive and we want to go on the offense again with noaa. let me follow up on travel and tourism. you recognized the importance in your comments. i want to drive that point home with you and ask you specific questions. i don't think that most people realize the impact of travel and tourism through our national economy. before covid-19, u.s. travel and tourism accounted for $2 trillion in economic out put, somewhere in the range of 16 million jobs. it was our second largest industry export after transportation. that surprises people sometimes. our second largest export industry in our entire country. people like to live here. visit here. that's an export industry. it was our seventh largest private employer. it has been devastated. everybody says that, but i don't think people realize the extent of devastation of the u.s. travel and

and noaa has long been overlooked and underfunded. so having an ocean state governor to oversee noaa's work is something that is very exciting. she has experience and familiarity with the issues around storm surge, sea level rise, ocean plastics, pirate fishing, fisheries management, and many other challenging areas. as governor, she established task forces on plastic waste, developed the collaborative relationship between wind developers and fishermen that saw to the success of our offshore wind programs, focused on coastal resiliency and the need of our coastlines to be defended from inevitable sea level rise and worse in storms and she focused on our blue economy, which in rhode island, is an incredibly important part not only our financial well-being but of our heritage as well. governor raimondo will be the secretary for oceans and commerce we have long needed. as important as her successes in this area, it is also what jack referred to and that is her growning and her roots. she recognizes the value that matter most to rhode isl

we have our engineers that serve with noaa. and noaa leads this wind speed standard estimation committee. as i mention the -- mentioned previously, one of our lead investigators is very prominent in actively supporting that committee to develop recommendations and to develop science that can be used for national tornado designs, for infrastructure and for other critical facilities. that's how we partner with them on the tornadoes. mr. lucas: in my remaining time, can you discuss, how do you ensure it meets its work force demands especially as windstorm hazards are increasing. how do you get enough people there? do you have enough people there? mr. grimm: thank you. certainly the amount of work that fema has in front of us every year is a tremendous amount of work whether it's responding to disasters or mitigating disasters or preparing for disasters. we have an outstanding cadre of resources to respond to disasters. through, give you an example, throughout the pandemic fema has had to really change its posture on how we do busi

weather ready nations are noaa's boots on the ground. with mitigation in the community through national noaa weather service partnerships. this includes high visibility public education events like the eye of the storm, and successful businesses that discover in science in fort lauderdale and at the hurricane website, fiu.edu, would speak to the changing dem or graphic and partnering with the national hurricane center, on the hurricane awareness tool. in our k through 12 program, they are our youngest and next generation of weather right field basts. including a pursuit for degree by challenging to develop innovative and mitigation concepts which are then tested. now many [ inaudible ] like fiu are weather ready nation ambassadors an we literally take our science to the people. at fiu, our research has a purpose. either we reduce risk or risk will reduce us. through nhc through the testing, the model is helping with forecasts and we're collaborating to develop a coastal forecast system in the caribbean region. we are work with the resear

i do think we have a lot of work going on at nasa, at noaa. i know nist even has a small workshop a few years ago of data fusion, of thinking about how to intercorporate various polar orbiting satellites, including low earth orbit and some of our commercial platforms. as well as our open source geostationary to provide better temporal resolution. it's more complicated with spatial resolution because you just kind of have to accept the data as it was. how it was engineered. if it was engineered at 10 kilometers, it's 10 kilometers. you have to take that location and try to compare it to 10 meters in resolution. we also had in the last 10 years and much credit to nasa, usgs and noaa with their collaboration with european space agency, with the india space agency, with the japanese space agency in trying to improve some of our other collaborations that we have open source access to their platforms and are developing, you know, kind of a cross-pollination of coordination. and to be fair, sometimes our satellite systems are developed because they a

change, being our number one challenge from a noaa perspective, but also the graphic research noaa does, fisheries are in danger around the world, and basic atmospheric observations here in hawaii, that have really letting climate change -- led in climate change. please take us out of word -- us at our word for our support for noaa. we want to go on the offensive again with noaa. let me follow-up again with travel and tourism. i want to ask you some very specific questions. i don't think most people realize the impact of travel and tourism to our national economy. before covid-19, u.s. travel and tourism accounted for about $2 trillion in economic output. it accounted for somewhere in the range of 16 million jobs. it was our second largest industry export after transportation. that surprises people sometimes. our second largest export industry and our entire country. people like to live here. visit here. that is an expert industry. it was our -- it was devastated. i don't think people realize the extent of the devastation of u.s. travel and tourism. a loss of somewhere around half of th

and related to missions including as a member of the 2019 noaa field campaign. during my testimony, i will highlight the relationship between climate change and wildfires, options to reduce fire risk, solutions for satellite-based text and federal collaboration. the opinions expressed in my opinion are my own and do not represent views of my university. climate change means warmer temperatures from the entire u.s. witnessed in the entire intensity and drier field conditions of the western states. lit pat had change increases drought, leading to charge stands of dry and sometimes dead trees. this accelerates the likelihood of ofre u.s extreme fires, evenr eastern forests likee the 2016 great d smokey mountains fire nr tennessee that burned over 17,000 acres and killed 14 people during an exceptional drought. within the arctic regions of alaska, climate change will increase lightning activity, will trigger to more fire-prone grass lands and will dry out causing long-lasting underground fires that span multiple fire seasons. wildfires contribute to climate change b

according to noaa these late may storms may have caused millions of damage to property. majestic mountains... scenic coastal highways... there's lots to love about california. so put off those chores and use less energy from 4 to 9 pm when less clean energy is available. because that's power down time. >>> right now we want too to governor new on vaccines as wel reopening schools. >> educators in this district, at least that first dose. today marks more broadly a commitment for the state of california across the spectrum in all 58 counties to provide at least 10%, a minimum of 75,000 doses we are setting aside for our educators, school employees broadly, all up and down the state of california. on thursday and friday, we'll actually be utilizing the two large fema sites thursday and friday in southern california and in northern california as educator days exclusively to provide even additional vaccinations. those don't come out of the 75,000 allocations. just a commitment, our resolve to prioritize our educators as we're prioritizing our most vulnerable, our seniors and

and so i do think that noaa's geo xo is one way to move forward. they did hold a workshop last summer with local, state, and federal level fire researchers and practitioners and management to get their input on that, but even that system, which was an rfp was issued and two contractors were selected earlier this spring, its highest resolution will be half a kilometer. and so really, we need to think about, you know, setting an agenda where we want special resolution that is helpful both tactically and strategically for fire management. and i will return to you if you have further questions. >> thank you, i completely agree. i'm horrified that we don't have access to higher resolution data than that, and as a scientist myself, i can tell you there's no way you can create meaningful prediction models based on that, and as you say, it would be very -- we've got all of these high speed aerial assets now for fighting the fires. it would be very helpful to be able to have realtime information about when the fire started and where, i'm hopeful that we in

they put fema, noaa, c.d.c. to address this coordinated approach. if we see -- we see the federal government really bringing their coordinated attention to this. i think what local municipalities will start to do is reduce the silos that are currently in place in different boroughs which -- in different bureaus which is at the core of developing different approaches to heat deaths. ms. bonamici: thank you. my time has expired. thank you, madam chair. ms. sherrill: thank you. the chair recognizes mr. casten for five minutes. mr. casten: thank you, madam chair. thank you to our witnesses. i must say, part of this whole hearing that makes me very sad. it makes me sad because pre-covid, i think the three biggest days for single day mortality events in the united states were 9/11 and nearly 3,000 people, katrina, 1,800. and third is the 1995 chicago heat wave that killed people. so much that dr. shandas is saying, this is nothing new. in 1995, the people who died were the least among us. it was people who couldn't afford air conditioning, people who didn

noaa releasing data from the last three decades. more extremes, much less precipitation in the west, more droughts for southern california, nevada and arizona. rain and snow increasing from texas up through the northeast. much of the country getting warmer. the areas in red and pink, annual temperatures rising more than one degree in many major cities. >>> and that news tonight about the late prince philip. we learned today that his official death certificate will say he died of old age at the age of 99. suggesting no signs of illness or injury. buckingham palace had said his death was peaceful. >>> and when we come back here tonight, at 19 years old, the surprise question changing her life. struggling to manage my type 2 diabetes was knocking me out of my zone, but lowering my a1c with once-weekly ozempic® helped me get back in it. ♪ oh, oh, oh, ozempic® ♪ my zone? lowering my a1c and losing some weight. now, back to the show. ozempic® is proven to lower a1c. most people who took ozempic® reached an a1c under 7 and maintain

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i represent noaa, and we're part of the office of national sanctuaries. the monitor of one of 15 sanctuary system. this system encompassed more than 600,000 square miles of great lakes waters from washington state to the florida keys and from lake heron to american samoa and we represent the sanctuary which is off the coast of north carolina. that i could see here with the arrow. again, here is some other representations of our sanctuary. but we are located about 16 miles off the coast of cape hatteras, north carolina. and we're 240 feet of water with a labrador and a gulf stream currents collide so it is a very challenging environment, we have one of the most important and significant ship wrecks in the world that we are interpreting. so we're proud to tell the story of the uss monitor. it is a strange basically cheese box on a raft that was union ironclad that was the first of its kind it is a prototype and designed forestuary harbor warfare to fight the south during the civil war. you could see it is a strange looking vessel. but this is the days of ca

i'm with noaa's monitored national marine sanctuary. we'll be talking about world war ii on america's doorstep, u boats, i represent noaa, the federal agencies earrings national oceanic administration. and the monitor is just one of 15 national sanctuaries, and of sanctuaries in the system. it covers waters from florida state to the florida keys and from america to samoa. we represent the north sanctuary off the coast of california which you can see with the arrow. we are located about 16 miles off the cape of coast hatteras, north carolina, and we're 240 feet of water with-- where the labrador and gulf stream coasts collide. we're very proud to be working to tell the story of the uss monitor. what is the uss monitor? it's a basically strange cheese box in a raft that was the first of its kind of a prototype and was designed specifically for warfare to fight the css virginia in the civil war. you can see it is a strange-looking vessel, but this is the days of cannonballs and cannon fire. it was purposely very low to the water, not givin

i was on the nasa side of a partnership with noaa. i was able to look at commercial data sets and am able to look at commercial data sets, but if i wanted to expand that to other states where we did not fly, that would not necessarily be permitted. i would need to go back and request and ask why. i would also say that the commercial data is definitely an add-on. it is one of those projects we want to include. it requires a high level of computer science and data encoding skills. our products are often some of the best in the world, and our commercial data centers are not quite there, but that is not necessarily their business model, so they have not been given the right incentive to develop those products. they would be something that would fill in that gap if we want multiple daily inventory, but to really get at some of the fire weather, you need something like a geostationary system where you are getting something every five minutes to half-hour. >> it seems that fire science has changed an awful lot since i was a kid. back then, -

it was set in 1936 noaa reports it's such a small margin that they consider it a tie now. five states reported the hottest summers. california, idaho, nevada, oregon, utah the west has been suffering during massive wildfires, fires made worse by drought. michelle grossman, meteorologist. yet another fire threat? >> yes yeah, it's true. we're looking at another dismal climate record let's look at the data the report there are going to alternate this the dust bowl summer of 1936 we exceeded it by 0.1% a really hot summer, june, july, august those are the hottest summers of the month. five states that never had won we have long stretches of heat waves. we have extreme drought. we talked about the situation. they have long stretches where we're not getting the rest the average temperature was 74 degrees. that's 2 poip poip 6 degrees above average. i'll translate how that affects us humans. also rainful when you have warmer temperatures, warmer planet, you're going to have more rainfall the eighth wettest summer in history. on august 4th the u.s. is in a continental drought. to

according to noaa the natonal oceanic and atmospheric admini administration, the u.s. suffered 22 separate billion dollar disasters last year shattering all records from the previous four decades. is this a wake-up call that climate change isn't a distant threat? craig colten is a geography professor at louisiana staudt university and studies how communities and governments cope with coastal hazards and extreme weather. soledad: thank you for talking with me. let's begin with how you are doing. dr. colten: we never lost power although we were a tiny neighborhood within the city of baton rouge that didn't lose power. you think about half the stu is still without power here in baton rouge. >> talk in the impact of climate containing that i think we don't necessarily focus on. not the drama of flood organize trees knocked down but things that follow later. dr. colten: even time you encounter a disaster, you start from a little lower platform to start the recovery. so, we were climbing multiple ladders to get out of the hole from the last several disasters. then on the oth

the full noaa report will be released tomorrow. shep. >> diana, thank you. >>> mother nature leaving her mark everywhere, as we go around the world on cnbc. china, at least 28 people killed and more than 120,000 relocated after flooding in the northern province authorities say 13 of those people died after a commuter bus plunged into a river just yesterday. this is the second major flood to hit china this year >>> greece an earth kquake rocking the isld of crete this morning. it caused items to fly off shelves and people to run for the street in the popular tourist destination. thousands left their homes, but no deaths or injuries reported this is the second powerful quake to hit the island of crete in the past 15 days. the first killed one person and left extensive damage. >>> spain. s stunning new images showing the volcano on la palma in the canary islands more than 700 residents ordered to abandon their homes as more are threatened streams of lava have engulfed more buildings, including a cement plant hit yesterday more than 1,

generally, we conduct the adult field professions in the sanctuary and with noaa. we conducted missions to document the potential sites of the guerrero, that was done with the national park service and in addition, we conducted advanced training and admissions in the great lakes with noaa. jay talked about one of my most rewarding missions, the documentation of that tuskegee airmen in lake huron. we also are conducting in cooperation with the ambassador see, feel schools in costa rica in 2019-2021. the culmination of all of these sites, we have documented so many different shipwrecks and two aircraft over 18, including 18th and 19th century sailing vessels and we have a team bladed over 18,000 hours of volunteer work and this came -- i will let jay talk about the slave wreck, project partners and the society of lack archaeologists. and i will -- and our partnerships with them. dr. flewellen: thank you. i know jay just dropped out. in addition to the fantastic partnerships outlined and mentioned, i want to state that so much of the work that dwp is doing in various

a lot of the science at noaa doesn't be noaa to regulate things come for nasa. epa is a regulatory agency part excellence. part of the problem has with secret science at agency climate science, for example, at noaa and nasa is that we're expected to believe, you know, it's trust us, we are scientists. that's career scientist at the agency and its also outside science or trust us, we are scientists at epa the problem is not only that, it's trust us, we are regulators. you can't trust either and in the ship transparency, and that's why this rule is important and it think it does have an application of some of the other regulatory agencies. actually interior, we had a discussion with sector bernhardt last month -- secretary bernhardt and we talked about the epa rules that the gotten through to reform the limitation and i think they have done some similar things. and you may know about that but i think there's a sort of common thing here that we need more transparency and less trust us, bursitis, trust us us, were regulars. but if you want underscore one thing andre

the same is true at the federal level with noaa and epa has extensive resources to understand urban heat and then i would encourage you to really think about connecting the dots across the federal bureaus to put local municipalities to take immediate action on this silent killer and i yield back. >> . >> thank you for inviting me today. and located in the hardest large metropolitan area phoenix arizona we are on the line for extreme heat so we have similar issues the urban heat island effect and that is a result where it retains heat during the day and slowly releases at night. what those temperatures ranging and for reducing that early he island and extreme he is amplified by climate change increasing federally to be longer and harder climate change includes greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency measures. it's important to address both the affecting climate change together in a systematic manner but concerned how people experience he and in other words optimizing people so into different timescales immediate emergency action and long-term programs. long-term strategies have int