Category Archives: Latest News
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Executive Committee and Stakeholder Meetings in Guam
Posted April 15, 2017The Executive Committee of the PacIOOS Governing Council met on Guam in April. Committee members, IOOS Director Carl Gouldman, and PacIOOS staff reviewed program updates and discussed the future...
Coral Reef Recovery at Palmyra Atoll
Posted March 30, 2017As part of the PacIOOS Water Quality Sensor Partnership Program (WQSPP), the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recently entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with PacIOOS to...
