# **Updates**

## NHCI Presentation Citations  
* **Date:** December 10, 2025  
  A full repository of presentations by NHCI team members.  
  [Read More](https://nopphurricane.sofarocean.com/updates/presentation-citations)

## StoryMap: Hurricane coastal impacts  
* **Date:** November 12, 2024  
  A StoryMap describing key aspects of the NHCI project and how they contribute to advancing scientists' ability to predict storm impacts.  
  [Read More](https://nopphurricane.sofarocean.com/updates/storymap-hurricane-coastal-impacts)

## Wave buoy arrays deployed for Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton  
* **Date:** October 21, 2024  
  The NOPP Hurricane Coastal Impacts 3A teams successfully deployed over 60 wave buoys in rapid response to Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton.  
  [Read More](https://nopphurricane.sofarocean.com/updates/wave-buoy-arrays-deployed-hurricane-helene-milton)

## Surface wave buoys and subsurface water level sensors deployed in rapid response to Hurricane Francine  
* **Date:** September 12, 2024  
  The NHCI project coordinated the airdrop of 16 surface wave buoys and subsurface water level sensors in the path of Hurricane Francine.  
  [Read More](https://nopphurricane.sofarocean.com/updates/rapid-response-hurricane-francine)

## NOPP Hurricane Coastal Impacts Project 2024 Summer Forum Series  
* **Date:** August 20, 2024  
  NOPP hosted a series of five virtual sessions in June and July of 2024 for the public to learn about the contributions and activities of the nine NOPP Hurricane Coastal Impacts (NHCI) project teams.  
  [Read More](https://nopphurricane.sofarocean.com/updates/2024-summer-forum-series)

## Reflecting on the Importance of Cross-Sector Partnerships at OCEANS 2023 Gulf Coast  
* **Date:** October 12, 2023  
  The National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) highlights the importance of public-private partnerships at OCEANS Conference 2023.  
  [Read More](https://nopphurricane.sofarocean.com/updates/national-oceanographic-partnership-program-public-private-partnerships)

## NHCI Deploys Buoys to Observe Coastal Impacts from Hurricane Lee in Partnership with Research Squadron VXS-1  
* **Date:** October 12, 2023  
  On Thursday September 14th, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Scientific Development Squadron (VXS-1) airdropped several buoys to observe coastal impacts from Hurricane Lee, which remained offshore.  
  [Read More](https://nopphurricane.sofarocean.com/updates/research-squadron-vxs-1-observes-coastal-impacts-from-hurricane-lee)

## Research Squadron VXS-1 Mobilizes Quickly to Track Hurricane Idalia  
* **Date:** September 19, 2023  
  U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Scientific Development Squadron (VXS) 1 mobilized a crew for a NP-3C Orion operation with less than 24 hours’ notice to airdrop 10 Sofar Spotter buoys in the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Hurricane Idalia on Monday, August 28.  
  [Read More](https://nopphurricane.sofarocean.com/updates/research-squadron-track-hurricane-idalia)

## Rapid response buoy array airdropped to sample Hurricane Idalia  
* **Date:** September 7, 2023  
  On Monday, August 28th, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Scientific Development Squadron (VXS-1) airdropped 18 buoys associated with the Task 3A teams of the NOPP Hurricane Coastal Impacts project in the path of Hurricane Idalia.  
  [Read More](https://nopphurricane.sofarocean.com/updates/rapid-response-buoy-array-airdrop-sample-hurricane-idalia)

## NHCI highlighted in White House press release  
* **Date:** November 1, 2022  
  The National Oceanographic Partnership Program’s (NOPP) Predicting Hurricane Coastal Impacts Project (NHCI) was mentioned in a White House press release.  
  [Read More](https://nopphurricane.sofarocean.com/updates/nhci-white-house-press-release)

## Buoy observations obtained in Hurricane Ian  
* **Date:** October 17, 2022  
  Following the rapid-response air deployment of an array of buoys in the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Hurricane Ian, team members closely monitored the data collected by the devices.  
  [Read More](https://nopphurricane.sofarocean.com/updates/buoy-observations-obtained-in-hurricane-ian)

## Successful air deployment of buoys with NRL partnership ahead of Hurricane Ian  
* **Date:** September 30, 2022  
  On Monday, September 26th, 2022, 20 buoys were successfully deployed in the Gulf of Mexico ahead of Hurricane Ian as part of the NOPP Hurricane Coastal Impacts project. The deployment, which was facilitated by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, created a real-time sensor network to monitor Ian’s location and intensity as it advanced towards Florida’s Gulf Coast.  
  [Read More](https://nopphurricane.sofarocean.com/updates/successful-air-deployment-of-buoys-with-nrl-partnership-ahead-of-hurricane-ian)

## microSWIFTs: Tiny Oceanographic Floats Measure Extreme Coastal Conditions  
* **Date:** April 29, 2022  
  [Read More](https://nopphurricane.sofarocean.com/updates/microswifts-tiny-oceanographic-floats-measure-extreme-coastal-conditions)

## Task 3A – Thomson  
* **Date:** January 5, 2022  
  UW APL has been testing microSWIFT buoy deployments from NOAA aircraft.  
  [Read More](https://nopphurricane.sofarocean.com/updates/task-3a-thomson)