Category Archives: Latest News
Governing Council Meeting 2019
Posted November 28, 2019Members of the PacIOOS Governing Council came together this month in Honolulu for their annual meeting. After learning about PacIOOS’ programmatic updates on the first day, meeting participants engaged...
New Weather Station at Honolulu Harbor Entrance
Posted November 23, 2019In collaboration with the Hawaiʻi Pilots Association (HPA) and the State of Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation Harbors Division, PacIOOS installed a weather station at Pier 1 on the Diamond...
Hawaiian Koʻa (Coral) Card
Posted September 28, 2019The Hawaiian Koʻa (coral) Card was developed by researchers from the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology’s Coral Reef Ecology Lab to help determine the health and bleaching status of...
Decadal Ocean Observing Conference Held in Honolulu
Posted September 23, 2019In September, the international, decadal conference OceanObs’19 was held for the first time ever in the United States. Approximately 1,500 attendees came to Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, to learn, share, and...
Natural Variability in Water Clarity at Kewalo Basin
Posted June 28, 2019The Friends of Kewalos were awarded one of PacIOOS’ nearshore sensors as part of the Water Quality Sensor Partnership Program to monitor water quality during the Kewalo Basin Pier...
Monitoring Sedimentation in Dausokele Estuary, Pohnpei, FSM
Posted June 25, 2019The Conservation Society of Pohnpei (CSP) was supplied with a PacIOOS nearshore sensor to support and inform an ongoing watershed monitoring project in Pohnpei in the Federated States of...
Meeting Regional, Coastal and Ocean User Needs With Tailored Data Products: A Stakeholder-Driven Process
Posted June 07, 2019As part of the publication series OceanObs’19: An Ocean of Opportunity, the article Meeting Regional, Coastal and Ocean User Needs With Tailored Data Products: A Stakeholder-Driven Process was recently...
Citizen Scientists Model Validation in West Maui
Posted May 30, 2019PacIOOS, in conjunction with the Hawaiʻi Sea Grant King Tides Project, conducted two workshops on Maui (in Lahaina and Kīheī) to mobilize citizen scientists to participate in photo documentation...
New ocean acidification monitoring station in American Samoa
Posted May 21, 2019NOAA, the Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS), and partners have launched a new buoy in Fagatele Bay within the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa to measure carbon...
Tanapag Wave Buoy Back in the Water
Posted May 15, 2019On May 10th, PacIOOS redeployed its wave buoy outside of Tanapag, Saipan. The yellow buoy is located about 5 miles offshore and provides valuable wave and ocean information. Data...
