NOAA Ship Rainier

10/01/2025

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09/30/2025

09/25/2025

NOAA leadership was joined by partners today to celebrate the keel-laying for Surveyor, a new charting and mapping vessel being constructed for NOAA. The vessel is being built by Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors, LLC., in Houma, Louisiana.The keel-laying is a centuries-old maritime tradition that forma...

07/22/2025

We’re excited to announce that we have started hiring professional mariners to work on ’s fleet of 15 research ships. Learn more about the positions and how to apply at omao.noaa.gov/sailnoaa.

04/03/2025

Guess who's home!

After over two years of sailing for science, NOAA Ship Rainier and crew were welcomed back to our homeport in Newport, Orgeon - NOAA Marine Operations Center-Pacific. To learn more about this vessel and the work we do, please visit https://www.omao.noaa.gov/marine-operations/ships/rainier

02/26/2025

THANK YOU to everyone who applied to be a NOAA Teacher at Sea in 2025! We appreciate your patience as we worked through some challenging decisions. We selected a cohort of 6 finalists for this sailing season. Please check your email inbox and spam folders for an update on your status.

Photo of NOAA Ship Rainier where TAS'18 Eric Koser highlights the area called the bridge. Location: Alaska's Lisianski Strait

Blog: https://noaateacheratsea.blog/page/2/?s=eric+koser

12/31/2024

The NOAA ship fleet is going "Green" with new technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions!

Learn more: https://www.omao.noaa.gov/omao/news-media/article/noaa-ships-sailing-toward-energy-efficiency

10/31/2024

Shipshape - Fall 2024 NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations sent this bulletin at 10/15/2024 03:00 PM EDT Fall 2024 Greetings, Shipmates! Much has happened since our last issue. Our biggest news of late is that NOAA Rear Adm. Chad Cary was selected to lead the NOAA Corps and NOAA Marine and....

10/31/2024

NOAA Marine and Aviation Operations will hold a hiring event in November in Honolulu, Hawaii to recruit professional mariners to work aboard NOAA’s ocean research ships.

06/26/2024

Rear Adm. Ben Evans has always had an interest in maps, and now has grown it into his career. Learn more about the director of NOAA Coast Survey.

https://www.omao.noaa.gov/noaa-corps/news-media/article/noaa-corps-officer-profile-rear-adm-ben-evans

03/21/2024

02/26/2024

NOAA Ship Rainier has had a productive offseason while undergoing repairs at Marine Operations Center- Pacific Islands in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii! While moored in Pearl Harbor the ship has had the privilege to host numerous visitors including U.S. Congressional Representative from Hawaii’s first district, Ed Case, the Assistant Administrator for the NOAA Fisheries, Janet Coit, and the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Navigation, Observations and Positioning, of NOAA's National Ocean Services (NOS) Ms. Rachel Dempsey! Congressmen Case and Deputy Assistant Administrator Dempsey met with Rainier's command and crew and were given a tour of the ship and shown the variety of missions Rainier accomplished during the 2023 RICHARD field season! These included our survey missions in the American Samoan islands, the Republic of Kiribati and the remote islands of Howland, Baker and the Rose Atoll to name a few!