Category Archives: March 2011

PacIOOS has launched a new website: www.pacioos.org. Pages have been created specifically for each of the PacIOOS subregions and a variety of user groups.
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On Friday, March 11, 2011 a 9.0 earthquake 80 miles east of Sendai, Honshu, Japan generated the Honshu tsunami that devastated coastal communities in Japan. Surging waves were felt throughout the Pacific, including Hawaii and the west coast of the … Continue reading →

The Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System has submitted three proposals for the continued development of PacIOOS.  The first was a 5 year grant to NOAA for the continued core funding of our observing efforts.  Read the PacIOOS Proposal here.  The second … Continue reading →

Efforts continue toward installing a NOAA- funded Integrated Coral Observing Network (ICON) station in Laolao Bay, on Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). NOAA’s Coral Health and Monitoring Program’s ICON project is aimed at establishing a global, high … Continue reading →

PacIOOS  has purchased 4 receivers and 4 tags to deploy within the existing shark tracking array in Palau in partnership with both Coral Reef Research Foundation in Palau and the Australian Institute of Marine Science at the University of Western … Continue reading →

The City and County of Honolulu (C&C) and PacIOOS have partnered to further the data management operations at PacIOOS and improve access to oceanographic data collected around Oahu. Annual funding, at fifty thousand dollars per year, for five years has … Continue reading →

The PacIOOS Governing Council, with representatives from various sectors including transportation, tourism, resource management, local and national government and non-government organizations, will meet in Honolulu, Hawaii on April 27, 2011.  The purpose of meeting is to review Program progress towards … Continue reading →

PacIOOS seeks an oceanographic specialist (OS) to join the Data Management team.  The OS will integrate various data streams into useful data products and will closely collaborate with both scientists and end-users to determine product requirements.  For more information and … Continue reading →