Category Archives: PacIOOS Updates
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...
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...
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...
Ocean Technology Transition Project Funding
Posted September 28, 2017The University of California Santa Cruz along with the University of Hawaiʻi and Rutgers University are collaborating with CeNCOOS, MARACOOS, and PacIOOS on a 3-year project to advance the...
Water Quality Monitoring in Kewalo Basin
Posted September 25, 2017As part of the PacIOOS Water Quality Sensor Partnership Program, the Friends of Kewalos (FOK) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to receive a PacIOOS nearshore sensor for one-year....
Year 2 Funding for PacIOOS
Posted August 20, 2017For the second year of a five-year cooperative agreement with NOAA’s Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), PacIOOS received a total of $2.32 million in competitive grant funding. This year’s...
$500K to Enhance Coastal Resilience in West Maui
Posted July 14, 2017NOAA’s Regional Coastal Resilience Grants Program will award PacIOOS with $500K to develop a high-resolution, real-time wave run-up forecast and notification system for West Maui’s coastline. PacIOOS will also...
Ocean Tipping Points – Hawaiʻi Case Study
Posted June 16, 2017Data from the Ocean Tipping Points Hawaiʻi Case Study are now available for download on the PacIOOS website. The Ocean Tipping Points Project aims to support effective ecosystem-based management...
New Wave Buoy off Pearl Harbor
Posted June 10, 2017PacIOOS deployed a new wave buoy near the entrance to Pearl Harbor, Hawaiʻi, approximately 1.5 miles offshore at the beginning of June. The wave buoy provides accurate information on...
