On October 31st, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Ocean Services (NOS) Communications and Education Division (CED) launched a weekly “podcast” called Making Waves. The program offers highlights to current activities, recent discoveries, and other happenings around NOS. So far there are two episodes out, each around seven minutes long and they promise to launch a new one each Friday.
Unfortunately, their RSS does not seem to include enclosures for their audio files, so I cannot automatically subscribe to it in iTunes. To listen, I have to actually visit the page and manually download the mp3 files. That’s kind of a pain, so let me know if it works differently for you.
So what is the NOAA NOS? It is part of the US Department of Commerce and is one of the agencies responsible for managing America’s “95,000 miles of shoreline and 3.5 million square miles of coastal, Great Lakes, and deep-ocean waters.” It is is composed of eight program and two staff offices, including the Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS), the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) and the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS). Still unsure about what NOS does? Then listen to their new audio program to learn more. 
NOS is not the only NOAA podcast floating around out there. WeirdFins is a NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) podcast about some of the strange creatures that live in the sea. Each audio program is about two minutes long and their RSS appears to be valid. NOAA’s Office of Exploration also regularly publishes audio and video podcasts during their expeditions and you can subscribe to them here.
- National Ocean Services: Making Waves
- National Marine Fisheries Service: WeirdFins
- Office of Exploration: Expedition podcasts
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