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The sun hangs low over the ocean horizon, with a strip of sandy beach in the foreground.

Infrastructure Law to fund National observing priorities

07/25/2022
Sunrise on a Florida Beach by Becca Cheney / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA 4.0 This month, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina ...
NOAA survey dig at oil rig close to Catalina Island, just off the California coast.

Archiving the Ocean Biodiversity Information System-USA (OBIS-USA)

06/16/2022
Photo credit: Adam Obaza, WCR Protected Resources Division, NOAA Recently, OBIS-USA has taken a significant step to ensure that the ...
people seated at round tables in a conference room listening to a speaker at the front of the room with a slide presentation.

2nd U.S. IOOS Code Sprint a success!

06/02/2022
Participants listen to remarks at the 2nd U.S. IOOS Code Sprint in Chicago, IL. Photo Credit: Great Lakes Observing System ...
SanctSound graphic showing various marine life and manmade marine tech emitting sound waves.

Live for Listening: Underwater Sound in National Marine Sanctuaries

04/22/2022
NOAA, the U.S. Navy, and partners have launched a new web portal that allows users to learn about and listen to underwater ...
Seven hexagons each showing a different map or model

Summer of Code with U.S. IOOS

04/04/2022
For the second year, U.S. IOOS has been selected as a mentoring organization for Google’s Summer of Code. “We’re happy ...
close up of U.S. Capitol dome with flag flying out front

U.S. IOOS Advisory Committee meets, welcomes new members

01/20/2022
Photo credit: Architect of the Capitol The U.S. IOOS Advisory Committee held their fall meeting virtually on November 29 and ...
Block Island wind turbine construction.

NOAA and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Sign New Interagency Agreement on Wind Energy Development

01/12/2022
Block Island wind turbine construction. Credit: NOAA Fisheries. Today, NOAA and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management signed an interagency ...
a glider plunges into the waves at sea

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 ...
a collection of DMAC screenshots in a honeycomb layout

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 ...
One of Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute's (MBARI) long-range autonomous underwater vehicles (LRAUV) makes its way through the green, algae-rich waters of Lake Erie to track the 2019 harmful algal bloom as part of a research collaboration with NOAA. Credit: Ben Yair Raanan, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)

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 ...
A joint deployment of an environmental sensor processor off the Washington coast by NOAA and the Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems, one of the certified IOOS regional associations. The sensor has a special sampling package on board designed to detect early signs of harmful algal blooms (HABs).

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 ...
various HAB detecting technologies: Environmental Sample Processor (ESP), Imaging Flow Cytobot (IFCB), HABscope.

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 ...
HABForecast tool

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 ...
From left to right: US IOOS Surface Currents Program Manager Brian Zelenke; MARACOOS Executive Director Dr. Gerhard Kuska; National Weather Service Director Dr. Louis Uccellini; and US IOOS Director Carl Gouldman commemorate the launch of the new HF Radar off Lewes Beach, Delaware.

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

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

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

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) ...
Snapshot of the GCOOS Red Tide Respiratory Forecast portal dashboard

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 ...

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