Category Archives: PacIOOS Updates
PacIOOS 5-Year Strategic Framework
Posted January 18, 2018The Governing Council has approved the new PacIOOS 5-year Strategic Framework. The document will provide PacIOOS staff, researchers, existing partners, potential collaborators, and funders with insight into PacIOOS’ desired...
Trilogy Excursions New PacIOOS Partner
Posted January 15, 2018Trilogy Excursions is our newest Hawaiʻi MOA partner. Since its start in 1973, Trilogy Excursions has been operating premium sailing catamaran tours on Maui and Lānaʻi. Family owned and...
Division of Aquatic Resources New PacIOOS Partner
Posted November 10, 2017PacIOOS is pleased to welcome the State of Hawaiʻi, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Aquatic Resources as the newest addition to our Memorandum of Agreement (MOA)...
Governing Council Meeting 2017
Posted November 03, 2017PacIOOS Governing Council members came together at the beginning of November for the annual Governing Council meeting in Honolulu. Members participated in the 10-Year Anniversary Sail to visit ocean...
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...
