Yearly Archives: 2017
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...
Shark Research Tests New Technologies
Posted June 01, 2017The Shark Research Group from the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) is testing two innovative technologies to better understand shark behavior and habitat selection. Tiger sharks were recently...
Studying Circulation Patterns at Pago Bay, Guam
Posted May 30, 2017Researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) Department of Oceanography, in partnership with researchers at the University of Guam (UoG) and...
Elevated Sea Levels in Hawaiʻi this Summer
Posted May 28, 2017A combination of the highest astronomical tides of the year (also known as “King Tides”), global sea level rise, delayed sea level effects from the 2014-2016 El Niño, Pacific-wide...
Higher Resolution NOAA Coral Reef Watch Products
Posted May 22, 2017Voyager now offers a higher resolution suite of NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) coral bleaching monitoring products. These global, near real-time, satellite-derived data sets are now available daily at...
