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News and Updates from PacIOOS
Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System
by observing we learn
April 2012
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 New Ways to Track Real-Time Water Level across the Globe
When the tragic events in Japan occurred in March 2011, PacIOOS realized that there was not one website to turn to that included all the real-time water level stations across the Pacific Ocean. But that is exactly what concerned citizens across the Pacific wanted to see. Recently, PacIOOS filled this gap by integrating every real-time water level station on the planet into our Hawai'i Data Explorer. Now, PacIOOS users can track tsunamis as they propagate across the region--pulling data from over 100 data providers. PacIOOS users can also plot, subset, and download the data directly from the data explorer.
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| New PacIOOS Wave Buoy Deployed off Hilo  Captain Roger Antonio navigated his 35-foot Force, China Girl, in waters off Hawai'i Island to deploy a new PacIOOS Datawell Mark II Waverider Buoy about 6.5 nautical miles northeast of Hilo Harbor. Jason Adolf, PhD, Assistant Professor of Marine Science at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo (UHH), is excited about the launch of the Hilo wave buoy. In addition to helping commercial traffic in Hilo Harbor, Dr. Adolf believes the buoy will be useful for "fishermen, the many paddling clubs located at Hilo Bay Front beach, surfers interested in surfing Honoli'i and/or Bayfront, and educators that use Hilo Bay to teach shipboard classes, such at UHH Marine Science."
The buoy in Hilo joins the existing PacIOOS network of seven real-time wave buoys in Hawaiʻi, Guam, and the Marshall Islands to provide streaming data on wave height, direction, period, and water temperature to the PacIOOS Hawai'i Data Explorer, the PacIOOS website, to the Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and via Twitter @buoy51206. Data streaming is made possible through long-term partnerships between PacIOOS, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and CDIP. Click here for a drop down menu of all the PacIOOS wave buoys and direct links to the data they provide.
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 Real-Time Data from Wave Buoys easily accessible in PacIOOS Data Explorer
PacIOOS recently integrated the real-time data from all of the Waverider buoys in the U.S., as well as the National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) moored buoys to the Hawai'i Data Explorer. This enables PacIOOS users to view coastal and open ocean
wave data nation-wide. PacIOOS users can also plot, subset, and download the data directly from the data explorer.
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PacIOOS Welcomes the Pacific Marine Resources Institute as New Partner
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PacIOOS is excited to add the
Pacific Marine Resources Institute
(PMRI) as a signatory partner. PMRI is a non-profit environmental organization based on Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands. They are dedicated to working in partnership with Pacific nations, states, and communities to assess, monitor, and manage their precious biological resources for sustainable use. If your organization would like to become a PacIOOS partner, please download, sign, and return our
Memorandum of Agreement
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| PacIOOS is the Pacific Islands regional component of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS). Our mission is to provide timely, reliable, and accurate information on the open and coastal ocean waters of the Pacific Islands to ensure a healthy, clean, productive ocean and resilient coastal zone. For more information on PacIOOS or to become a partner please visit www.pacioos.org or contact the PacIOOS Director, Chris Ostrander, at chriso@hawaii.edu.
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