Category Archives: Latest News
Remarkable Wave Buoy Recovery 800 Nautical Miles at Sea
Posted January 31, 2019The U.S. Coast Guard recovered a drifting PacIOOS wave buoy 800 nautical miles (NM) offshore from its original location off Tanapag, Saipan, in December 2018. The buoy broke free...
10-Year Reanalysis of Hawaiian Islands Ocean Forecast System
Posted January 27, 2019Since 2009, PacIOOS has been generating daily forecasts of the ocean state around the main Hawaiian Islands through the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS). To optimize the forecast, ocean...
Data Collection of Nearshore Wave Dynamics Along West Maui Shoreline
Posted November 30, 2018A team of researchers from PacIOOS and the Department of Oceanography at the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), University of Hawaiʻi, deployed an array of...
Updated NOAA Coral Reef Watch Products: Version 3.1
Posted November 29, 2018PacIOOS has updated Voyager’s suite of NOAA Coral Reef Watch (CRW) coral bleaching monitoring products from version 3.0 to version 3.1. While the prior time series only dated back...
Governing Council Meeting 2018
Posted November 23, 2018For the annual PacIOOS Governing Council Meeting, members met at the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa campus in November. The U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Office and the IOOS...
Super Typhoon Yutu Rages Through Mariana Islands
Posted October 26, 2018With sustained winds of 178 mph, Super Typhoon Yutu is the strongest storm to ever hit a U.S. territory. Tinian in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)...
Follow Me: New Tiger Shark Tracks Available
Posted October 23, 2018PacIOOS now provides tracks from four new tiger sharks that were recently equipped with satellite tags off Kāneʻohe Bay by researchers from the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB)....
Water Quality Nearshore Sensor in Maunalua Bay Deployed
Posted September 27, 2018Mālama Maunalua and PacIOOS jointly deployed a nearshore sensor off Waiʻalae Beach Park, located towards the west side of Maunalua Bay, Oʻahu. The water quality sensor is part of...
Hui O Ka Wai Ola Water Quality Data
Posted September 24, 2018Voyager’s “water quality” category now includes an additional overlay of coastal water quality measurements sampled by a network of water quality champions known as Hui O Ka Wai Ola...
Storm Season in the Pacific
Posted September 20, 2018It has been a turbulent season for the Pacific Islands region. This month, Typhoon Mangkhut approached the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam as a category 2-equivalent with one-minute sustained...
