Category Archives: PacIOOS Updates
$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...
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...
JIMAR PacIOOS Job Opportunity: Data Applications Specialist
Posted January 03, 2017Partnering to support science and inform decision-making in the Pacific Islands JIMAR – Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (in collaboration with NOAA PIFSC – Pacific Islands Fisheries...
2016 Governing Council Meeting
Posted November 10, 2016Members of the PacIOOS Governing Council gathered for their annual meeting at the beginning of November. Following detailed program updates, discussions focused on the draft outline of PacIOOS’ revised...
