VAWS: Supporting USCG and R/V Norseman II through Satellite Imagery

Speaker: Michael Lawson (Asst. Sea Ice Meteorologist/Alaska Sea Ice Program)

In June 2024, the research vessel Norseman II was partially-disabled and trapped in sea ice for a two week period offshore the community of Shishmaref in the Bering Strait region of Alaska. The National Weather Service’s Alaska Sea Ice Program supported the United States Coast Guard and United States Fish and Wildlife/United States Geological Survey personnel onboard the vessel with sea ice briefings via daily annotated satellite imagery.