June 2025

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Workers prepare to deploy a glider in the Caribbean/Tropical Atlantic. Subsurface gliders will be out throughout hurricane season to help monitor and track ocean features that are linked to hurricane intensity changes. To learn more about our hurricane glider coordination work, visit our website.  Photo credit: NOAA/AOML

It’s June, and that means we’ve entered hurricane season for both the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific. IOOS' hurricane glider coordination project is planning to deploy 29 NOAA, Navy, and partner gliders for the 2025 hurricane season. In addition, we’re leveraging data from an additional 50 gliders deployed on separate missions in hurricane-prone regions of interest. That makes for nearly 80 gliders out there this season, gathering data used to improve hurricane forecast models. Visit our hurricane resource page to access those glider data, along with a host of other IOOS resources. And, as always, keep up with NOAA’s National Hurricane Center for forecasts, warnings, and up to the minute hurricane information.

Next, we're delighted to help get the word out on the latest Dialogues with Industry reports, this time focused on Harmful Algal Blooms. The Dialogues are a joint venture led by Marine Technology Society in partnership with the Global Ocean Observing System, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and industry partners. They bring together public, private, and academic spheres to dig into key topics together. This second Dialogue series focused on partnerships, technology gaps, and capacity to support the growing need for ocean data and information relative to HABs. The five resulting reports and Dialogue recordings are available now.

Finally, we’re proud to announce that we’ve taken on nine open source data contributor projects for the Google Summer of Code 2025. We’ve just wrapped the “community bonding” period where the contributors get to know their mentors and get up to speed. The coding period began this week, and we’ll be seeing final work products at the end of August. This is our fourth summer as a mentor organization in the GSoC, and it’s been an incredibly rewarding experience. Congratulations to applicants whose proposals were accepted, and thank you to everyone that submitted an application to one of our project ideas.  We wish you all the best going forward and encourage you to continue to contribute to open source communities such as IOOS and GSoC — participation by new contributors is essential to sustaining open source software!

From the
IOOS Office

  • Dialogues with Industry – Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) Reports: The Marine Technology Society’s Ocean Enterprise Initiative, in collaboration with GOOS, NOAA’s NCCOS, and U.S. IOOS, is proud to announce the release of reports from the Dialogues with Industry: HABs series. The reports capture key insights from industry, government, and academic leaders, highlighting pressing challenges, market needs, and opportunities for innovation in the HAB space. Explore the reports here, or watch the series.

     

  • IOOS has nine projects for the Google Summer of Code! IOOS has been approved to mentor nine new open source contributor projects as part of GSoC 2025! This year, our mentoring organization application broadened participation both within and outside of NOAA, with mentors from NOAA Fisheries and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution participating, in addition to returning mentors from U.S. IOOS, ERDDAP, NOS/OCS, and MBON communities. The full list of IOOS GSoC projects is available online. 

     

  • The HFRNet Transition from Scripps CORDC to NOAA will be final June 30, 2025. Find more info about this transition, including what you need to know now, on our website (see "HFRNet Transition" tab). 

Observing Systems, Data, and Modeling

 

  • Alaskan Glider Team Achieves Major Milestone with “Glide 365”: The University of Alaska’s glider team recently reached a major milestone with its “Glide 365” program. Over the course of the project, six gliders were rotated to maintain an uninterrupted presence, ultimately staying out for 441 consecutive days. During that time, the gliders profiled from the ocean surface to the seafloor, collecting oceanographic data that are providing a first-ever high resolution picture of the Gulf’s seasonal evolution. Read more.

 

  • PNW buoy deployments: The UW APL buoy team recently deployed Cha'ba, the NEMO-subsurface profiling mooring, and the HAB-toxin-measuring ESP mooring. This year marks the 16th year of Cha'ba deployments, 15th year for NEMO-subsurface, and 10th year for the ESP mooring. Also, working with Jennifer Hagen of the Quileute Tribe, three Sofar Spotter moorings were deployed as part of the Backyard Buoys program.

 

  • SCCOOS and CeNCOOS are pleased to report the deployment of a new High-frequency Acoustic Recording Package (HARP) off the coast of Eureka, CA, led by PI Simone Baumann-Pickering (UCSD/SIO). The new HARP system will continuously record underwater sounds from 10 Hz to 100 kHz, with applications for cetacean research.

 

  • SeaSonde HFR updates: The NOAA IOOS Surface Currents Program is facilitating the update of all IOOS-affiliated U.S. CODAR SeaSonde® stations to forthcoming Radial Suite R25 and stations with pre-R22 AIS Patterner Suite to the latest AIS Patterner Suite R22. SeaSonde HF-radar operators with questions regarding these updates may contact support@codar.com.

 

 

  • AWLW partner stations appear on NOAA Coastal Inundation Dashboard: NOAA’s Coastal Inundation Dashboard, a publicly accessible tool that provides real-time and historical information on coastal flooding, now includes data from water level stations supported by Alaska Water Level Watch (AWLW), in partnership with regional stakeholders. AWLW and partners support 18 stations in the state, six of which are currently visible on the dashboard. Read more.

 

  • MARACOOS launches Atlantic Sturgeon Risk of Encounter Product: The Atlantic Sturgeon Risk of Encounter Product uses the Atlantic Sturgeon Occurrence Model (ASOM), a predictive model designed by researchers at the University of Delaware, in partnership with MARACOOS, NOAA, and NASA. This product predicts the presence of Atlantic sturgeon in Delaware Bay and surrounding waters, using satellite-derived environmental data, including SST, ocean color, water depth, and time of year. Read more.

 

  • Custom Dashboards with OceansMap Insights! MARACOOS is rolling out OceansMap Insights, an enhancement to their flagship data portal, OceansMap. Insights are customized dashboards and data views that are tailored to specific user needs and include region-specific permalinks and dashboards designed to provide preloaded, easy-to-access data scenarios. Existing Insights categories include environmental conditions, industry, navigation & boating, recreation, and storms. Read more.

 

  • CeNCOOS recently hosted the first CalOOS Community Workshop in Avila Beach, bringing together Central Coast researchers, ocean professionals, and community members for a day of learning and hands-on training. From insightful talks on regional ocean science to an in-depth CalOOS Data Portal session, the event marked an exciting step towards enhancing ocean data literacy and creating a community around ocean observing. Stay tuned for a full event summary coming in June!

 

IOOS Enterprise

  • Mid-Atlantic Hurricane webinar: Join MARACOOS June 11 for a one-hour webinar exploring how Hurricanes Irene (2011) and Sandy (2012) transformed the way we observe and forecast hurricanes around the world. Read more.
  • GCOOS Summer Webinar Series: Marine Heat Waves: Join GCOOS in June and July as we present our Summer Webinar Series focused on the science and impacts of MHW. Read more.
  • Catch up with the 4th annual FathomNet Workshop, held in April. Watch the recordings to learn the latest updates about the FathomNet Database, the mobile game, and how to get involved.
  • Advancing Coastal Hazards Education in Puerto Rico: CARICOOS hosted a Coastal Hazards Workshop for science teachers. The workshop is part of an initiative to integrate coastal hazards education into classrooms throughout Puerto Rico. Read more.
  • GCOOS and Gulf of America Alliance Sign New Collaboration Agreement: GCOOS Executive Director Dr. Jorge Brenner and Laura Bowie, Gulf of America Alliance Executive Director, signed an updated memorandum of understanding. Read more.
  • At the Deep Ocean Observing Strategy annual meeting, Marine Lebrec, CeNCOOS Technical Mgr, led a session on benthic habitat mapping and modeling for place-based management, and Amy West, Synchro Program Mgr, presented on accessible ocean technology.

Partners

  • New PORTS® launched in Hawaii: CO-OPS’s Pearl Harbor-Honolulu Physical Oceanographic Real-Time System, or PORTS®, is operational at Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii, and is NOAA’s 40th system in this national precision marine navigation sensor network.
  • Ocean Decade Alliance Seabed Mapping Initiative: Call To Action: The ocean decade alliance has launched a global initiative to accelerate seabed mapping. Read more.
  • Pioneer 21 Leads the Way as OOI Preps for a Busy Field Season: The Coastal and Global Scale Nodes (CGSN) team successfully completed the Pioneer 21 expedition aboard the R/V Armstrong. Read more about the expedition here: https://www2.whoi.edu/site/ooi-expedition/pioneer-21/ 
  • Ocean community gathers in Nice, France for One Ocean Science Congress (4–6 June) and 2025 UN Ocean Conference (9–13 June). The Global Ocean Observing System is co-organizing and contributing to multiple sessions, panels, and side events. Read more.
  • OceanObs’29 Program Committee application deadline extended, apply by June 20!

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