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Ensign Pamela Chelgren was sworn in by Secretary of Commerce Peter G. Peterson on July 6, 1972. Her father, Navy Captain John Chelgren, held the Bible for the ceremony.
Members of BOTC141 returning to the barracks after a day of ship handling training at the United States Coast Guard Academy.
NOAA Corps officer candidate, Edward Harris, practicing station keeping on the Thames river on United States Coast Guard Academy training boat.
A bright orange NOAA DriX uncrewed surface vehicle during sea trials.
Graphic depicting an uncrewed aircraft system and an uncrewed marine system.
An autonomous surface vehicle is launched in the Port of Gulfport, Miss., during the U.S. Navy's Advanced Naval Technology Exercise on November 6, 2019.
Illustration depicting various uncrewed systems NOAA uses to observe the ocean and atmosphere with the goal of improving hurricane prediction.
NOAA Corps officers launch a hexacopter drone used to photograph Beluga whales in Cook Inlet, Alaska.
A Drix uncrewed surface vehicle cruises alongside a NOAA ship during a test.
At Pagan Island, Jaoao Garriqus pulls in diver Rhoda Suka after a towboard survey in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands while Kaylyn McCoy remains behind the helm of the NOAA small
NOAA's two Lockheed WP-3D Orions along with a DHC-6 Twin Otter (foreground) and a King Air 350CER inside the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center hangar in Lakeland, Florida.
NOAA Corps pilot Ensign Sarah Cozart at the controls of a NOAA DHC-6 Twin Otter.