PacIOOS Receives $2.48 Million in Federal Funding The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded $2,488,545 to PacIOOS to support the annual operation of the observing, modeling, data management, and outreach components of the system. In addition to maintaining operations, included in this funding are resources to deploy new instruments in the insular Pacific, to model and distribute sea-level rise projections for Hawaii, Guam, CNMI, and American Samoa, and funds to continue the integration of biological, physical, and static spatial data throughout the region. |