NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory

06/09/2026

The ocean and atmosphere are constantly exchanging gasses, including carbon dioxide.

From the Florida Keys to the remote corners of the Arctic, our scientists are using water samples to characterize ocean cycling and carbonate chemistry. Not only that, scientists at AOML maintain an array of underway pCO2 systems and have developed best-practices in quality-controlling data to standardize measurements of the surface ocean’s uptake of carbon.

Learn more about the efforts of our Ocean Carbon Group and their objectives at the link in bio. 🔗

06/08/2026

POV: You’re passing the phone to a team that takes World Oceans Day very SEA-riously.

Join us in celebrating the scientists who spend their days (and sometimes nights) dedicated to vital marine research, from oceanography to ocean chemistry and ecosystems.

Meet the faces behind the data and click the link in bio to learn more about NOAA science beneath the waves! 🔗

06/05/2026

Floats away!

AOML and partners recently deployed three new Biogeochemical-Argo floats (BGC-Argo floats) offshore of St. Thomas, USVI. They are the latest deployments of the Argo Program array which represents the largest source of subsurface data in the world.

In addition to core temperature and salinity observations, these particular floats measure dissolved oxygen, nitrate, pH, chlorophyll-a, and more which helps scientists at AOML to monitor nutrient cycling and even understand changes in the biology and chemistry of the ocean before, during, and after hurricanes.

Read more about how these floats were used to study the Gulf during the passage of Hurricane Idalia at the link in bio 🔗

06/03/2026

Darwin Explains El Nino Vs La Nina and How it Impacts Hurricane Season🌀🌊

To hear my more in depth about explaination about ENSO click the link below bio to watch my YouTube Video!

https://youtu.be/CdkzobIO23s?feature=shared

06/01/2026

On this Day, Darwin Explains: Why are Coral Reefs Important? 🪸

Check out the link below to learn more!

https://linktr.ee/aoml?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=b75b503b-7038-4acf-b82b-9b7a88ea2a50

05/28/2026

Do you live in South Florida and want to see real hurricane instruments like drones, dropsondes, and gliders?

Come visit us at the Museum of Discovery and Science () in Fort Lauderdale this weekend on Saturday, May 30th for their free Eye of the Storm event. We hope to see you there!

05/27/2026

👀 👓 POV: You’re an uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) penetrating a hurricane eyewall.

USVs provide an unparalleled look into seascapes before, during, and after tropical cyclones. Recording wave heights of 20+ feet and wind gusts of 100+ mph, USVs help us research an environment that no crewed vessels could, ultimately aiding our understanding of hurricane development and activity.

These USVs are packed with sensors that capture real-time data on wind speed, wave height, sea surface temperature, pressure, and salinity. This crucial info is then used to help improve predictions of hurricane paths and intensities! Through this data, USVs are also shedding light on how hurricanes alter the biogeochemistry of the ocean, such as nutrient upwellings and phytoplankton blooms.

Learn more about USVs at the link in bio 🔗

Page 1 Top Video: Footage captured by USV Saildrone 1040 near the southern eyewall of Hurricane Tammy in 2023.

Page 1 Bottom animation: The locations and real-time data of USV Saildrones as Hurricane Tammy passed over them.

Page 2 Image: A photo taken by an Oshen C-Star USV from within a hurricane in 2025.

05/22/2026

Ever wonder how oil spills or people lost at sea are tracked through the ocean?

Real-time observations from a network of +1,000 global drifters that quite literally “go with the motion of the ocean” are one of the ways.

Global drifters – a part of the Global Drifter Program – float with ocean currents collecting temperature and salinity data that improve land and ocean forecasts as well as the probability of successful search and rescue missions.

Learn more about drifters and the Global Drifter Program at the link in bio 🔗

05/21/2026

05/21/2026

In the Experimental Reef Lab, scientists with AOML and the Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) are taking coral resilience experiments to the next level by exposing them to multiple stressors at once including thermal stress, ocean acidification, and hypoxia (low oxygen).

This novel experiment is part of the second module of a four-part collaborative initiative called the Florida Regional Ecosystems Stressors Collaborative Assessment (FRESCA) which aims to understand how current and future ocean conditions will impact South Florida’s vital benthic habitats.

As Emma Pontes, a University of Miami Rosenstiel School CIMAS post-doctoral researcher explains, corals in the wild don’t experience stressors in isolation, so it’s important we study them in as natural a way as possible.

As it turns out, this is easier said than done since changes to one stressor can also trigger changes in another. But thanks to sophisticated tank systems designed in-house at NOAA AOML, scientists are able to successfully conduct these multi-stressor experiments on coral, sponge, and seagrass species.

Want to learn more? See a detailed video and read about the FRESCA modules at the link in bio 🔗