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New NOAA report shows U.S. ocean enterprise sector grew 60 percent since 2015
12/07/2021
A NOAA ocean glider, seen in waters off the coast of Puerto Rico in July 2018. These robotic, unmanned gliders ...
New awards advance IOOS data management
11/04/2021
NOAA’s U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System Office is announcing new three-year cooperative agreements to support its Data Management and Cyberinfrastructure ...
NOAA Awards $15.2M for Harmful Algal Bloom Research
10/27/2021
One of Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's (MBARI) long-range autonomous underwater vehicles (LRAUV) makes its way through the green, algae-rich ...
NOAA awards $41 million for ocean observing
09/14/2021
A joint deployment of an environmental sensor processor off the Washington coast by NOAA and the Northwest Association of Networked ...
NCCOS and IOOS Contribute to Successful Kickoff of HAB Observing Group
09/10/2021
Innovations in HAB observing technologies. Left to right: Environmental Sample Processor (ESP), Imaging Flow Cytobot (IFCB), HABscope. Credit IOOS. On ...
Red Tide Respiratory Forecast is Now Operational
08/09/2021
The Red Tide Respiratory Forecast — part of a suite of NOAA tools focused on predicting the movements and impacts ...
New HFR site launched in Lewes, Delaware
07/07/2021
From left to right: U.S. IOOS Surface Currents Program Manager Brian Zelenke; MARACOOS Executive Director Dr. Gerhard Kuska; National Weather ...
Hidden Diversity: Researcher describes four new species of sponge that lay undiscovered in plain sight
05/17/2021
UC Santa Barbara’s Thomas Turner has published a paper in the journal Zootaxa describing four new species of sponges. These ...
Hawaiian Monk Seals Join the Animal Telemetry Network
05/05/2021
For more than two decades, NOAA has been tracking monk seals throughout the Hawaiian Archipelago as part of their larger ...
U.S. ATN: Expanding the Reach of Biology in Ocean Observations
01/21/2021
An endangered Hawaiian monk seal lounges on a beach in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. The U.S. Animal Telemetry Network (ATN) ...
Expanding the Respiratory Forecast for the Gulf Coast
12/15/2020
The GCOOS Red Tide Respiratory Forecast provides information on when the red tide caused by Karenia brevis could be impacting ...
Ocean observing prize solicits designs for tomorrow’s storm tracking technology
10/19/2020
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy and NOAA announced the opening of the DEVELOP Competition within the Ocean Observing Prize, ...
IOOS Ocean Technology Transition Project: Six new multi-year grants announced for 2020
08/26/2020
For 2020, IOOS, in conjunction with the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP), sought projects focused on regional coastal ocean observing ...
NOAA, Navy Teaming Up to Work on Unmanned Maritime Systems, Policy
08/06/2020
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Navy are formalizing a partnership on unmanned maritime systems and the policies that ...
IOOS Data Catalog version 1.5 now available
04/03/2020
On April 3, the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System released the newest version of their Data Catalog, version 1.5. Updates ...
NOAA, DOE Announce Winners of the Powering the Blue Economy Ocean Observing Prize
04/02/2020
Today, NOAA and the U.S. Department of Energy announced the 11 winners of the first “DISCOVER” stage of the Powering ...
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