Yearly Archives: 2017
Division of Aquatic Resources New PacIOOS Partner
Posted November 10, 2017PacIOOS is pleased to welcome the State of Hawaiʻi, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Aquatic Resources as the newest addition to our Memorandum of Agreement (MOA)...
Governing Council Meeting 2017
Posted November 03, 2017PacIOOS Governing Council members came together at the beginning of November for the annual Governing Council meeting in Honolulu. Members participated in the 10-Year Anniversary Sail to visit ocean...
Supporting Coral Reef Conservation at Palmyra Atoll
Posted October 30, 2017The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), with the help of Dr. Jennifer E. Smith from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, successfully deployed one of PacIOOS’ nearshore water quality...
Updated Turbidity Plume Forecast
Posted October 26, 2017A revised version of the PacIOOS Turbidity Plume Forecast for the Ala Wai Canal, Oʻahu, is now live. The updated visualization features interactive controls to play, replay, and forward...
Monitoring Temperature Spikes in American Samoa
Posted October 23, 2017The PacIOOS wave buoy off Aunu’u in American Samoa has been recording sporadic but distinct sea surface temperature spikes. To further investigate the origin, local authorities, including the American...
Governing Council Member Elections 2017
Posted October 20, 2017PacIOOS is pleased to welcome the newest regional members on the Governing Council, Dr. Carlos Villacis, Director of Applied Science at the Pacific Disaster Center, and Tom Smith, Senior...
New Voyager Area Statistics Tool
Posted October 17, 2017Voyager now provides a utility for computing statistics over a user-selected area for gridded datasets, including satellite data, forecasts (weather, surf, tide, ocean), bathymetry, and land elevation. This tool...
MUR Replaces G1SST Blended Sea Surface Temperatures
Posted October 17, 2017Voyager and Voyager Mobile now offer Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution (MUR) sea surface temperatures (v4.1). These global, near real-time, satellite-derived data sets are available at daily and monthly time spans...
The Nature Conservancy Hawai‘i Program New PacIOOS Partner
Posted September 30, 2017We are excited to welcome The Nature Conservancy’s Hawaiʻi Program (The Conservancy) as our newest PacIOOS Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) partner. The Conservancy is a private non-profit conservation organization...
