Jane Lubchenco

Eric Schwaab, a native Baltimorean who's spent the last three years in the federal government overseeing fisheries and coastal conservation efforts, is returning home to take a new post at the National Aquarium. Schwaab, 52, currently an acting...

The National Weather Service's Sterling, Va., office has released more details about an upcoming open house at its headquarters, including some high-level speakers. Among them is Jane Lubchenco, under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and...

The director of the National Weather Service announced his sudden retirement last week after an audit of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationthat found $43.8 million in performance awards to contractors granted without proper justification....

Eight months later, the tally from Tropical Storm Irene is in: As of May 1, insurance companies paid a total of $235 million on more than 60,000 claims in Connecticut related to damage from Irene, according to the state Insurance Department. That's big...

Rick Knabb, a veteran tropical forecaster and most recently The Weather Channel’s hurricane expert, has been named director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami-Dade County. He replaces Bill Read, who is retiring as of June 1. “For as...

Conditions in the atmosphere and the ocean favor a near-normal hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin this season, NOAA announced today from Miami at its Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, and home to the Hurricane Research Division....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- America's wild weather year has set another record: a dozen billion-dollar catastrophes. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday that it has recalculated the number of weather disasters passing the billion-...

The head of NOAA, Dr. Jane Lubchenco, is in town. She’s one of President Barack Obama's top environmental scientists and has the influence in Washington D.C. to affect major decisions involving Alaska’s resources. Lubchenco is covering a...

Friday’s devastating earthquake in Japan was followed by tsunami waves that further damaged that country. The tsunami swamped Hawaii’s beaches and damaged harbors in California, No lives were lost in the United States, in part because of...

How did weather conditions in 2010 impact global corn yield and corn markets? What weather impacts on global production are anticipated this spring? These questions will be addressed at the 9th Annual NOAA Climate Prediction Applications Science...

Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist's video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn't degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor. That report is at odds...