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Projects
Animal Telemetry Network
Movements of marine animals are a fundamental element of ocean ecosystem dynamics. Telemetry, the use of electronic tag technology to study animal movement, is a critical tool for the biological ...
Coastal and Ocean Modeling Testbed
Coastal waters and lowlands of the U.S. are threatened by climate change, sea-level rise, flooding, oxygen depleted “dead zones”, oil spills and unforeseen disasters. With funding from the IOOS Program ...
IOOS Site Survey
User Survey Welcome! This survey is designed to measure your level of satisfaction with NOAA's IOOS website. It consists of 12 questions and should take approximately five minutes to complete ...
Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON)
Biodiversity is critical from the perspective of ecosystem services such as food, oxygen, and socio-economic benefits that support human livelihoods. The , which concluded in 2010, greatly enhanced our understanding ...
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 Enterprise Studies
Why this study? The Ocean Enterprise business cluster comprises New Blue Economy businesses that support ocean measurement, observation and forecasting. These businesses supply technology to generate ocean data or work ...
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 ...
Quality Assurance / Quality Control of Real Time O...
New Paper Released:As part of the U.S. IOOS Data Management and Cyberinfrastructure (DMAC) core services, the U.S. IOOS Program Office has issued "". The paper considers the applicability of real-time ...
Underwater Gliders
Gliders are a unique and important observing system used to serve a variety of subsurface observing missions. Gliders can monitor water currents, temperature, tagged animals and conditions that reveal effects ...
News
Biden-Harris Administration announces $60 million ...
Two men deploy a towed camera system from a research vessel at sea. Photo Credit: NOAA/NMFS Today, the Department of Commerce and NOAA are launching the , a $60 million ...
Biden-Harris Administration invests $3.9 million f...
VAST Josh Keller unties 1084 from the tow line in Lake Michigan to deploy it for the 2023 USGS Great Lakes Fisheries survey. Photo Credit: Saildrone Today, the Department of ...
DOE and NOAA Announce Winners of Ocean Observing P...
Team Wave Powered Oceanographic Gliders tests their early-stage prototype at the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s facility in Carderock, Maryland. Credit: NREL The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Oceanic ...
GOOS BioEco Portal launched!
GOOS is delighted to launch the - an online platform that provides information on the sustained ocean observing programs which deliver information about the health of marine life. “We now ...
Hidden Diversity: Researcher describes four new sp...
UC Santa Barbara’s Thomas Turner has published a paper in the journal Zootaxa describing four new species of sponges. These novel specimens weren’t dredged from the murky depths or found ...
IOOS launches Marine Life Portal
! The new page connects all of IOOS’ existing Marine Life related web pages, portals, use cases, and guidelines, which have all been recently updated, and provides a single succinct ...
NOAA partners receive $14 million to enhance ocean...
Students from Rutgers University’s Masters in Operational Oceanography program installing a high-frequency radar antenna at Sandy Hook, NJ. This radar is part of the national high-frequency radar network in the ...
The 2022 Vembu Subramanian Awardees
Three awardees have been identified as recipients of the 2022 Vembu Subramanian Award and have been informed of their success. After accepting the evaluation of applications by its Review Panel, ...
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 Ocean™ - IOOS Newsletter - 7 September...
The Eyes on the Ocean™ Newsletter is an informal way of keeping you up-to-date on U.S. IOOS® activities. to subscribe a new address or if you no longer want to ...
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 ...
U.S. IOOS priorities under the Inflation Reduction...
Photo credit: NOAA NOAA has a key role to play in helping prepare and support our nation as we face the challenges of a changing climate. These funds, in concert ...
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