NOAA in the Arctic
Learn about what NOAA is working on in the Arctic.
Provides a high-level framework and six strategic goals to address NOAA’s highest priorities in the region.
In 2014, President Obama released a plan for moving forward on his national strategy to advance U.S. security and stewardship interests in the Arctic. In keeping with the goals and tenets of his strategy, NOAA released its Arctic Action Plan—a document that provides NOAA scientists, stakeholders and partners a roadmap to make shared progress in monitoring, understanding, and protecting this vast, valuable, and vulnerable region.