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Revision as of 18:58, 27 October 2022
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) operates a wide variety of specialized aircraft and ships to complete NOAA's environmental and scientific missions. OMAO also manages the NOAA Small Boat Program and the NOAA Diving Program, the latter having as part of its mission the job of ensuring a level of diving skill conducive to safe and efficient operations in NOAA-sponsored underwater activities.[1]
Administration
The Director of OMAO and the NOAA Corps was Rear Admiral Michael J. Silah until his retirement on 1 April 2021. Rear Admiral (Lower Half) Nancy Hann, NOAA, is the Director of the Marine and Aviation Operations Centers.
Aircraft
Aircraft operations
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NOAA's Aircraft Operations Center (AOC), has been located at Lakeland Linder International Airport in Lakeland, Florida, since June 2017. The AOC is home to NOAA's fleet of aircraft. The aircraft often operate over open ocean, mountains, coastal wetlands, Arctic pack ice, in and around hurricanes and other severe weather. Noncommercial aircraft support NOAA's atmospheric and hurricane surveillance/research programs, NOAA Hurricane Hunters. The aircraft collect environmental and geographic data for NOAA hurricane and other weather and atmospheric research; provide aerial support for coastal and aeronautical charting and remote sensing projects; conduct aerial surveys for hydrologic research, and provide support to NOAA's fishery research and marine mammal assessment programs.
Prior to its move to Lakeland, the AOC resided at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, from January 1993 to June 2017.[2]
NOAA research aircraft types operated
Present
Aircraft | Number in service | Introduced |
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Gulfstream G550 | 1 on order | 2022 |
Beechcraft King Air 350CER | 2 | 2009 |
de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter[3] | 4 | 1994 |
Gulfstream IV-SP | 1 | 1996 |
Gulfstream Turbo Commander 695A | 1 | 2004 |
Lockheed WP-3D Orion | 2 | 1976 |
Past
Aircraft [4] | Number in service | Predecessor Agency | Introduced | Retired |
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Boeing WB-50A Superfortress | 2 | National Hurricane Research Laboratory (NHRL) | 1956 | 1958 |
Boeing WB-47E Stratojet | 1 | NHRL | 1956 | 1960 |
Douglas DC-6B | 2 | NHRL | 1960 | 1975 |
Douglas WB-26 Invader | 1 | NHRL | 1961 | 1965 |
Martin WB-57A Canberra | 1 | NHRL | 1960 | 1971 |
Douglas WC-54D Skymaster | 1 | NHRL | 1961 | 1965 |
Lockheed WC-130B | 1 | NHRL | 1970 | 1981 |
Aero Commander 500 | 2 | NOAA | ? | ? |
Lake Renegade | ? | NOAA | ? | ? |
Cessna Citation II | ? | NOAA | ? | ? |
Bell 212 | ? | NOAA | ? | ? |
Ships
Ship operations
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NOAA's ship fleet was created when various United States Government scientific agencies merged to form NOAA on 3 October 1970. At that time, the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries were abolished, and the ships that had constituted their fleets – the hydrographic survey ships of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the fisheries research ships of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries – combined to form the new NOAA fleet. At first, the major ships that were to constitute the new fleet reported to separate entities, with former Coast and Geodetic Survey ships subordinate to the National Ocean Survey (the Coast and Geodetic Survey's successor organization within NOAA), while former Bureau of Commercial Fisheries ships reported to the Bureau's successor within NOAA, the National Marine Fisheries Service. Via a phased process during 1972 and 1973, however, the ships of the National Ocean Survey and National Marine Fisheries Service, as well as those of the Environmental Research Laboratories, integrated to form a consolidated and unified NOAA fleet, operated by the National Ocean Survey's Office of Fleet Operations.[5]
The NOAA fleet provides hydrographic survey, oceanographic and atmospheric research, and fisheries research vessels to support the elements of NOAA's strategic plan and mission. NOAA's Fleet Allocation Council manages and allocates the time each ship spends on various missions and projects based on user requests.[5] Some ships of the fleet are vessels retired from the United States Navy or other maritime services. The vessels are located in various locations around the United States. The ships are managed by the Marine Operations Center, which has offices in Norfolk, Virginia, and Newport, Oregon. Logistic support for these vessels is provided by the Marine Operations Center offices or, for vessels with home ports at Woods Hole, Massachusetts; Charleston, South Carolina; Pascagoula, Mississippi; San Diego, California; or Honolulu, Hawaii, by port captains located in those ports.
Fleet maintenance
NOAA's aircraft and ship fleet is operated and managed by a combination of NOAA Corps Officers, wage marine and civilian employees. Officers and OMAO civilians frequently serve as chief scientists on program missions. The wage marine and civilian personnel include licensed engineers, mechanics, navigators, technicians, and members of the engine, steward, and deck departments. Administrative duties and navigation of the vessels are performed by the commissioned officers. The aircraft and ship's officers and crew provide mission support and assistance to embarked scientists from various NOAA laboratories as well as the academic community.
To complement NOAA's research fleet, OMAO is fulfilling NOAA's ship and aircraft support needs with contracts for ship and aircraft time with other sources, such as the private sector and the university fleet.
Flags and pennants
NOAA ships fly the flag of the United States as their ensign. To distinguish them from ships of other United States Government agencies and services that also fly the U.S. flag as their ensign, NOAA ships also fly the NOAA flag as a distinctive mark.[6] This practice carries on the tradition of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, an ancestor agency of NOAA whose ships flew the Coast and Geodetic Survey flag as a distinctive mark from 1899 until 1970, when the Coast and Geodetic Survey was abolished and its ships were incorporated into the NOAA fleet. The Coast and Geodetic Survey flag included a red triangle to represent the discipline of triangulation used in hydrographic surveys, and the flag of NOAA, in use since 1970, includes a similar red triangle.[7]
NOAA ships also fly a commission pennant in a similar manner to U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard ships.[6] The NOAA fleet has three commission pennants, one for its largest ships (which it deems "Class I" vessels), and two for smaller ships NOAA defines as "Class II," "Class III," or "Class IV" vessels.[7] The pennant for Class I vessels is 15 feet (4.6 m) long and has 13 red triangles on a white background at the hoist, with the remainder of the pennant blue, while the pennants for Class II, III, and IV vessels are 9 and 4 feet (2.7 and 1.2 m) long and have seven red triangles but otherwise are identical in design to the Class I pennant.[7][8] The pennants also carry forward a tradition of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey fleet, which flew commission pennants identical to those of the NOAA fleet.[7]
NOAA research and survey vessels
Upon its creation on 3 October 1970, NOAA took control of all research ships previously operated by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and all survey ships previously operated by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. NOAA has since decommissioned many of these ships and replaced them with ships acquired from the United States Navy or new ships built specifically for NOAA.
The names of NOAA ships are preceded by the prefix "NOAAS" (for "National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ship") and followed by a unique hull classification symbol, or "hull number," made up of a letter indicating whether the vessel is a research ship (R) or survey ship (S), followed by a three-digit number. Each hull classification symbol is unique among NOAA ships currently in commission, although in some cases NOAA uses a hull classification symbol identical to one it used previously for a ship that it has since decommissioned.
Present Fleet
Fisheries research ships
- NOAAS Bell M. Shimada (R 227) (in service 2010–present)
- RV Gloria Michelle (in noncommissioned service 1980–present)
- NOAAS Gordon Gunter (R 336)[9] (in service 1998–present; previously with U.S. Navy as USNS Relentless (T-AGOS-18) 1990–1993)
- NOAAS Henry B. Bigelow (R 225) (in service 2007–present)
- NOAAS Oregon II (R 332)[10] (in service 1977–present)
- NOAAS Oscar Dyson (R 224) (in service 2005–present)
- NOAAS Oscar Elton Sette (R 335)[11] (in service 2003–present; previously with U.S. Navy as USNS Adventurous (T-AGOS-13) 1988–1992)
- NOAAS Pisces (R 226)[12] (in service 2009–present)
- NOAAS Reuben Lasker (R 228) (in service 2014–present)
- NOAAS Ronald H. Brown (R 104) (in service 1997–present)
Gallery - fisheries research ships
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NOAAS Bell M. Shimada (R 227)
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RV Gloria Michelle
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NOAAS Gordon Gunter (R 336)
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NOAAS Henry B. Bigelow (R 225)
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NOAAS Oregon II (R 332)
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NOAAS Oscar Dyson (R 224)
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NOAAS Oscar Elton Sette (R 335)
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NOAAS Pisces (R 226)
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NOAAS Reuben Lasker (R 228)
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NOAAS Ronald H. Brown (R 104)
Hydrographic/oceanographic/atmospheric research ships
- NOAAS Fairweather (S 220) (in service 1970–1989 and 2004–present; previously with U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 1968–1970)
- NOAAS Ferdinand R. Hassler (S 250) (in service 2012–present)
- NOAAS Hi'ialakai (R 334) (in service 2004–present; previously with U.S. Navy as USNS Vindicator (T-AGOS-3) 1984–1993 and with U.S. Coast Guard as USCGC Vindicator (WMEC-3) 1994–2001)
- NOAAS Nancy Foster (R 352) (in service 2004–present; previously with U.S. Navy as USS Agate Pass (YT-112) 1991–1999)
- NOAAS Okeanos Explorer (R 337) (in service 2008–present; previously with U.S. Navy as USNS Capable (T-AGOS-16) 1989–2004)
- NOAAS Rainier (S 221) (in service 1970–present; previously with U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 1968–1970)
- NOAAS Ronald H. Brown (R 104) (in service 1997–present)
- NOAAS Thomas Jefferson (S 222) (in service 2003–present; previously with U.S. Navy as USNS Littlehales (T-AGS-52) 1992–2003)
Gallery - hydrographic/oceanographic/atmospheric research ships ships
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NOAAS Fairweather (S 220)
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NOAAS Ferdinand R. Hassler (S 250)
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NOAAS Hi'ialakai (R 334)
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NOAAS Nancy Foster (R 352)
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NOAAS Okeanos Explorer (R 337)
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NOAAS Rainier (S 221)
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NOAAS Ronald H. Brown (R 104)
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NOAAS Thomas Jefferson (S 222)
Past Fleet
- NOAAS Albatross IV (R 342) (in service 1970–2008; previously with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 1963–1970)
- NOAAS Chapman (R 446) (in service 1980–1998)
- NOAAS David Starr Jordan (R 444)[13] (in service 1970–2010; previously with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 1966–1970)
- NOAAS Davidson (S 331) (in service 1970–1989; previously with U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 1967–1970)
- NOAAS Delaware II (R 445) (in service 1970–2012; previously with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 1968-1970)
- NOAAS Discoverer (R 102) (in service 1970–1996; previously with U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 1967–1970)
- NOAAS Ferrel (S 492)[14] (in service 1970–2002; previously with U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 1968–1970)
- NOAAS George B. Kelez (R 441) (in service 1970–1980; previously with U.S. Army 1944–1950, U.S. Navy 1950–1961, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 1962–1970)
- NOAAS Heck (S 591) (in service 1970–1995; previously with U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 1967–1970)
- NOAAS John N. Cobb (R 552) (in service 1970–2008; previously with Fish and Wildlife Service 1950–1956 and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 1956–1970)
- NOAAS Ka'imimoana (R 333)[15] (in service 1996–2014; previously with U.S. Navy as USNS Titan (T-AGOS-15) 1988–1993)
- NOAAS Malcolm Baldrige (R 103), see NOAAS Researcher (R 103)
- NOAAS McArthur (S 330) (in service 1970–2003; previously with U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 1966–1970)
- NOAAS McArthur II (R 330) (in service 2003–2014; previously with U.S. Navy as USNS Indomitable (T-AGOS-7) 1985–2002)
- NOAAS Miller Freeman (R 223)[16] (in service 1975-2013; previously with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 1967-1970)
- NOAAS Mount Mitchell (S 222) (in service 1970-1995; previously with U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 1968-1970)
- NOAAS Murre II (R 663) (in service 1970-1989; previously with U.S. Army 1943–1949 and Fish and Wildlife Service 1949–1970)
- NOAAS Oceanographer (R 101) (in service 1970–1981, 1986–1989, and ?–1996; previously with U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 1966–1970)
- NOAAS Oregon (R 551) (in service 1970–1980; previously with Fish and Wildlife Service 1950–1956 and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 1956–1970)
- NOAAS Peirce (S 328) (in service 1970–1992; previously with U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 1963–1970)
- MV Pribilof (in service with NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service 1970–1975; previously with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 1963–1970)
- NOAAS Researcher (R 103), renamed NOAAS Malcolm Baldrige (R 103) in 1988 (in service 1970–1996; previously with U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1970)
- NOAAS Rude (S 590) (in service 1970–2008; previously with U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 1967–1970)
- NOAAS Surveyor (S 132) (in service 1970–1995 or 1996; previously with U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 1960–1970)
- NOAAS Townsend Cromwell (R 443) (in service 1975–2002; previously with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 1964–1975)
- NOAAS Whiting (S 329) (in service 1970–2003; previously with U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 1963–1970)
References
- This article incorporates material taken from the public domain website of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO).
- ^ "Office of Marine and Aviation Operations |". www.omao.noaa.gov.
- ^ "NOAA awards 10-year lease to City of Lakeland, Florida, to house NOAA Aircraft Operations Center". NOAA. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
- ^ Jim Moore (April 2014). "Culture of the smallest corps". AOPA Pilot: 74.
- ^ Dorst, Neal M. "The National Hurricane Research Center - 50 Years of Research, Rough Rides, and Name Changes" (PDF). aoml.noaa.gov. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
- ^ a b noaa.gov AFSC Historical Corner - Timeline of Significant Events Retrieved August 23, 2018
- ^ a b NAO 201-6 A: Official Flags of NOAA March 15, 2015
- ^ a b c d Sea Flags: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Accessed 26 October 2022
- ^ NAO 201-6A Attachment 1: Authorized Flags of the Department of Commerce, NOAA, and the NOAA Commissioned Corps March 15, 2015
- ^ "NOAAS Gordon Gunter". NOAA. Archived from the original on 2011-05-26. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
- ^ "NOAAS Oregon II". NOAA. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
- ^ "NOAAS Oscar Elton Sette". NOAA. Archived from the original on 2011-05-26. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
- ^ "NOAAA Fisheries Research Vessel PISCES Christening and Launch". NOAA. Archived from the original on 2013-02-18. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
- ^ "NOAAS David Starr Jordan". NOAA. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
- ^ "NOAAS Ferrell". NOAA. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
- ^ "NOAAS Ka'Imimoana". NOAA. Archived from the original on 2011-05-26. Retrieved 2013-05-05.
- ^ "NOAAS Miller Freeman". NOAA. Retrieved 2013-05-05.