Category Archives: September 2010

The past few months have been a flurry of activity for PacIOOS—we’ve initiated our Governing Council, deployed water quality monitoring systems throughout the Pacific Islands region, released our integrated Data Viewer, and have developed and submitted a program plan for … Continue reading →

The PacIOOS Governing Council was recently formed with representatives from various sectors including transportation, tourism, resource management, local and national government and non-government organizations. Continue reading →

PacIOOS submitted a program plan to request five additional years of funding through National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and its partner agencies. Continue reading →

Near shore water quality sensors, which monitor temperature, salinity, depth (tidal fluctuations), chlorophyll, and turbidity, were deployed in the Marshall Islands (RMI), Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Palau, and American Samoa between May and September. Continue reading →

Three High Frequency Radio (HFR) arrays are now active on Oahu, providing near-real-time surface current maps between Barbers Point and Koko Head. Continue reading →

The PacIOOS Data Viewer is a map-based tool to show PacIOOS related data collection sites and provides access to the data from these sites. Continue reading →

Our new Near Shore Water Conditions map is now available online. View real-time conditions (salinity, temperature, chlorophyll, turbidity and oxygen) and Continue reading →

The national IOOS office has established a map based tool for finding up-to-date data for the US coastal ocean and Great Lakes. Data are collected by NOAA and other federal agencies, IOOS Regional Associations, and other national and international partner organizations. Continue reading →