NOAA Science Report features new data-gathering drones, advances in wind, weather and water forecasts

A drone approaches a whale to attach an acoustic recording tag to monitor impacts of human-caused noise. Credit: Laura Howes / NOAA Fisheries Permit 18786-06

Discovering a 207-year-old whaling ship, advancing air-quality forecasts, improving storm surge and wind forecasts, and deploying the first-ever drone-based tagging of endangered whales. These are a few of NOAA’s many notable scientific accomplishments from the past year that are featured in the 2022 NOAA Science Report, which emphasizes a wide range of impacts that NOAA science advancements have on the lives of Americans.