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Projects
Coastal and Ocean Modeling Testbed Projects
This page serves to summarize each of the current COMT Projects. More info about the COMT can be found here. The overall COMT is managed by our non-federal partner, the ...
Improving an Ocean Acidification Observation Syste...
The decrease in calcium carbonate saturation state from is important to Pacific Northwest shellfish living in conditions that are naturally close to harmful saturation thresholds. Anthropogenic additions of carbon dioxide ...
Ocean Acidification
Acid eats away at calcium carbonate, the primary ingredient of shells and skeletons that many ocean animals depend on for survival. The shell pictured here is a victim of this ...
Ocean Technology Transition
LATEST NEWS Mission: The IOOS Ocean Technology Transition program sponsors the transition of emerging marine observing technologies, for which there is an existing operational requirement and a demonstrated commitment to ...
OTT - A Real-time Sensor System for Detecting Free...
There is considerable interest in the offshore exploration, and possible development, of hydrocarbon resources in Alaska’s Chukchi and Beaufort shelf seas. Drilling activity can only proceed during the open water ...
OTT - Detecting Harmful Algal Blooms in the Pacifi...
Shellfish contamination from harmful algal blooms (HABs) is both costly and a significant health risk to coastal communities. Blooms of Pseudo-nitzschia can produce the neurotoxin domoic acid (DA). DA can ...
OTT - Gulf of Maine Environmental Sensor Processor...
The Environmental Sample Processor (ESP), developed by Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), is a biological sensor capable of detecting harmful algal bloom (HAB) species and their related toxins in ...
OTT - HABs and Hypoxia
A clean, safe water supply is one of our Nation’s great natural resources, and keeping it that way requires a well-integrated system of monitoring coastal waters, estuaries, rivers, streams and ...
OTT - Imaging Flow CytoBot Data Integration
San Francisco Bay has long been recognized as a nutrient-enriched estuary, but one that has exhibited resistance to some of the classic symptoms of nutrient over-enrichment, such as high phytoplankton ...
OTT - Ocean Acidification
The ocean chemistry of the seawater is rapidly changing in a process known as ocean acidification. These changes in seawater chemistry affect animal growth, survival and behavior, and they are ...
News
All U.S. IOOS Regional Associations NOAA-Certified...
The 11 IOOS Regional Associations provide observing coverage for the U.S. coastal zone, as well as providing open access to physical & biological oceanographic data and information products. The U.S ...
Celebrate World Ocean Day!
A pelican looks out over the ocean in the Marquesas Islands. Photo Credit: Lieutenant Rebecca Waddington, NOAA Corps Did you know that Earth's oceans are really just one big, world ...
CeNCOOS Governing Council Meeting: Tiburon
The Romberg Tiburon Center for Environment Studies hosted the governing council meeting. The Center was established in 1978 by Paul F. Romberg, then President of San Francisco State University, on ...
Challenger Mission Continues World Tour in Indian ...
Challenger mission glider launch, Fremantle, Australia. Photo Credit: Charitha Pattiaratchi Bright and early November 7, 2016, the bright yellow RU-29 Slocum glider, dubbed "Challenger," headed out to sea once more, ...
Expanding the Respiratory Forecast for the Gulf Co...
The GCOOS Red Tide Respiratory Forecast provides information on when the red tide caused by Karenia brevis could be impacting area beaches so that people who are susceptible to its ...
Exploring the Ocean with the Power of Waves
TAO buoy operations off the NOAA Ship Ka'imimoana. Electronics technician checking sensors on newly moored buoy. (Photographer: Lieutenant Commander Matthew Wingate, NOAA Corps.) The value of collecting ocean data is ...
FY13 IOOS Ocean Technology Transition Project Awar...
In FY2013, the U.S. IOOS Program (IOOS®) instituted a multi-year Ocean Technology Transition project to advance science and technology and better enable decision-making. Two efforts were selected for funding in ...
FY14 IOOS Observing Technology Transition Awards
In FY 2014, the U.S. IOOS Program (IOOS®), in partnership with NOAA’s Ocean Acidification Program, continued a multi-year Ocean Technology Transition project to advance science and technology and better enable ...
FY15 IOOS Observing Technology Transition Awards
Mook Sea Farm, Wapole, Maine. Credit: Mook Sea Farm In FY 2015, the U.S. IOOS Program (IOOS®), in partnership with NOAA’s Ocean Acidification Program, continued a multi-year Ocean Technology Transition ...
GEO-XIII Plenary: Advancing the Vision of GEO
A surprise November blizzard greeted us in St. Petersburg for GEO-XIII, but unlike Washington DC, that's no reason for a snow day--it was business as usual along the Neva River ...
General Pages
Enhancing Coastal and Ocean Observing and Innovati...
In 2020, NOAA’s and the U.S. IOOS Office teamed up to develop and host three regional workshops focused on improving users’ access to streamlined ocean, coasts, and Great Lakes observational ...
Eyes on the Storm: Hurricane Season Resources
For forecasts, warnings, and up to the minute hurricane information, keep up with NOAA's . GOES East GeoColor satellite image of the Atlantic Ocean on September 11, 2018 showing Hurricanes ...
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