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Office of Coast Survey

Learn about the recent accomplishments of the Office of Coast Survey, including responding to tsunamis, assisting with ship emergencies, and aiding in emergency response preparations. Discover their future outlook, including ocean mapping efforts in the Arctic and improvements in charting times.

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Office of Coast Survey

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  1. Office of Coast Survey Captain John Lowell

  2. Recent Accomplishments: Responded to requests from USCG, USACE Navigation Response Teams deploy to Crescent City and Santa Cruz after March 11 tsunami

  3. Recent Accomplishments: Assisted with ship adrift in Bering Sea On December 3, M/V Golden Sea lost propulsion about 70 nautical miles north of Adak Island in the Aleutian Island Chain in the Bering Sea. Metrological conditions – 29-foot seas with 35 knot winds -- caused the ship to drift. Agencies planned for possible release of 450,000 gallons of bunker oil. Coast Survey's brief on recent nautical charts and hydrographic surveys helped decision making by the Coast Guard and NOAA’s Office of Response and Restoration.

  4. Recent Accomplishments: Aided emergency response prep Planned & participated in Marathon oil spill exercise in New Orleans and Tampa. Assisted with diver training for Tesoro exercise off Hawaii’s coast.

  5. Recent Accomplishments: Increased efficiencies with multi-use surveys Coast Survey hydrographers joined NCCOS onboard the Nancy Foster for scientific research mission in the U.S. Caribbean.  We assisted with data acquisition so the bathymetry can update NOAA's navigational charting products.

  6. Recent Accomplishments: More projects, briefly… Found wreck in Cobscook Bay Helping to relocate Arctic native village Hydro survey supports transit of coal ships Collecting comments on draft Arctic charting plan Provided bathy data to aid Mississippi restoration Provided bathy data to aid recovery of GOM recreational fishing

  7. Future Outlook:FY12 • Continue ocean mapping efforts in the Arctic • Bring the NOAA ship Hassler online in FY12 • Improve ping-to-chart times • Provide opportunities to support IOCM initiatives • Continue implementation of the NOAA R2R effort • Finalize strategic action plan for the mapping component of the National Ocean Policy

  8. House Committee on Oversight & Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management • AA Kennedy and Captain Lowell gave briefing to sub-committee staff on April 20 • Discussed difference in the charting missions of NOAA and NGA

  9. Department of Business, Trade, and Technology “This proposal would leave two major Commerce Department ‘administrations’ with tangential relationships to competitiveness: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which supplies environmental information, manages coastal and marine environments, and provides data and applied scientific research on ecosystems, climate, weather, and water; and [ESA]. Both are large organizations with important and often controversial mandates that have distracted the commerce secretary in the past from the competitiveness agenda that we argue should be the unrelenting focus of the next era of U.S. economic policy.” “A careful review should determine the best place for these important agencies because their missions would not closely align with the mission of the new department. Preliminarily, the functions of NOAA would seem to better reside within the Department of the Interior, whose mission includes protecting America’s natural resources and heritage.”

  10. Navigation Services FY12 proposed operating plan

  11. FY11 metrics, to date ^revised since the Oct 2010 report *acquired by NOAA and contractors #goal is parity with suite of 1,000 paper charts

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