About NOAA Voices
NOAA Voices provides public access to over 2,400 firsthand accounts related to the changing environment, climate, oceans, and coasts from around the US and its territories. These recordings are created by NOAA staff and external partners and shared here so that they can be easily discovered, accessed, and considered together.
Oral history is a unique example of qualitative data that is co-created by the narrator and interviewer. It is defined by its commitment to a diversity of perspectives, recognizing and valuing individual voices and collective experiences within society. Through deep engagement and active listening, oral history helps us answer, in profoundly intimate and detailed ways, fundamental questions:
- Who are we?
- How are we connected?
- How do we relate to each other and the world around us?
- How do we know what we know?
- How can we recognize and honor embodied knowledge?
We work with prospective oral history practitioners and partners to continually add interviews to our growing digital repository for public use for educational and research purposes. NOAA Voices is a powerful resource available to inform, educate, and provide primary information for researchers interested in the human dimensions of the NOAA mission.
Any individual or organization can participate in the NOAA Voices program by contributing oral history interview projects and interviews related to the project scope and mission or by using the interviews archived here in their research, scholarship, exhibits, or general use.
NOAA Voices is a NOAA-wide program supported by multiple line and staff offices, including NOAA Fisheries, the National Weather Service, the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, and the National Ocean Service.
To find out more about how to search and contribute to the Voices Oral History Archives, email us at voices@noaa.gov, or contact:
| Project Lead Patricia Pinto da Silva, PhD NOAA Fisheries, NEFSC patricia.pinto.da.silva@noaa.gov | Project Manager/Oral Historian Molly Graham NOAA Affiliate, NEFSC molly.graham@noaa.gov |
| Website & Database Designer Avi Litwack NOAA Fisheries, Office of Science and Technology avi.litwack@noaa.gov | Data Visualization Zachary Mason |
Special thanks to the following individuals who have continued to volunteer their time, skill, and efforts to support NOAA Voices through audio transcription, metadata production, and collection management.
- Michelle Duncan (2022 - present)
- Norma Hinton (2020 - present)
- Susana Oliveros (2022 - present)
- Jennifer Padua-Valle (2020 - present)
- Darlene Perez (2021 - present)