Aloha from PacIOOS,
Summer seems to be flying by! Below are some news items and updates that w e think stakeholders will be interested in learning about. Please check out our website for more information.
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New Data Layers and Tools
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| Screen Shot of Haleʻiwa Harbor Surge Forecast |
New PacIOOS Harbor Surge Forecast for Haleʻiwa Harbor
Harbors are designed to dampen the short-period (3-30 second) surface gravity waves that periodically batter the exposed coastlines, so that boats and floating platforms can rest undisturbed and unharmed at their moorings. However, these waves also force longer period gravity oscillations (30 seconds to 1 hour periods) that, like tsunamis, will enter the harbors with little resistance. Such conditions can produce strong currents, up to 1 mph, often called "surge" currents, that batter boats against docks, or even rip boats and floating platforms away from their moorings. The PacIOOS Harbor Surge Forecast provides advance notice of potentially dangerous surges in Haleʻiwa Harbor.
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New PacIOOS Water Quality Pages Display Real-Time and Archive Data
PacIOOS is pleased to announce the release of a suite of new water quality web pages on our website. These pages offer real-time water quality data (where available) on water temperature, salinity, depth, turbidity (water clarity), chlorophyll, dissolved oxygen, and more throughout the PacIOOS region. Archive data is available for all PacIOOS sensors throughout the region. These new pages also offer a Turbid Plume Model for Waikiki that simulates the plume advection and dispersion using river runoff and turbidity measurements for the Ala Wai canal. In addition, easy links to the State of Hawai ʻi Department of Health Clean Water Branch Alerts, Warnings, Advisories, and Postings are easily accessible via maps and links.
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A recent addition to our high-frequency radio (HFR) antenna arrays has extended the spatial coverage of Voyager's surface currents overlay. This relatively new deployment at Kaʻena Point on the northwest tip of Oʻahu extends data along the coast and up to 200 miles offshore of the southern half of the Waiʻanae Coast (West Coast) of the island. Click here to see this overlay in Voyager.
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| New Voyager Layer: NOAA Benthic Habitats for NWHI |
NOAA Benthic Habitat Layers for Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Now in PacIOOS Voyager
Voyager's "benthic habitats" category now contains NOAA shallow-water benthic habitat maps for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI), which contains the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. These maps include French Frigate Shoals, Kure Atoll, Laysan Island, Lisianski Island, Maro Reef, Midway Islands, Necker Island, Nihoa Island, as well as Pearl and Hermes Atoll. NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) produced these maps to support coral reef research and management. For more information on this layer, please see the Voyager News Page.
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| Mokapu Wave Buoy Spectra |
Due to popular demand, PacIOOS is hosting another Webinar on PacIOOS Coastal Hazards Data, Tools, and Forecasts on Wednesday, August 21, 2013, at 2:00 pm (HST). Join this webinar to learn how to access and read data from our PacIOOS wave buoys, plots, and wave forecasts; to access and understand what the PacIOOS high sea level and wave run-up forecasts are predicting; and to understand why the new PacIOOS harbor surge forecasts are so important for harbor users. In addition, we'll highlight related overlays, forecasts, and tools within the PacIOOS Voyager.
Click here to register for the PacIOOS Coastal Hazards Webinar. Upon registration, you will receive an email confirmation with additional information about the webinar.
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PacIOOS Celebrates Sustainability and Effective Coral Reef Management
PacIOOS was fortunate to have Laura Biggs, University of Guam Sea Grant, present to coral reef managers and decision makers at the Guam Coral Reef Symposium in June on the value of the PacIOOS Voyager. PacIOOS was also excited to join numerous organizations at the Hawaiʻi Conservation Alliance's Hawai ʻi Conservation Conference in July. The PacIOOS exhibit was a great way to meet new folks, share our data, tools, and services, and reconnect with partners.
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PacIOOS Welcomes New Partner
PacIOOS is excited to welcome a new institutional partner to the membership of PacIOOS: Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) Office of Environmental Planning and Policy Coordination (OEPPC). If your organization would like to become a PacIOOS partner, please download, sign, and return our Memorandum of Agreement. OEPPC's mission is to protect human health and the natural environment of the Marshall Islands by actively supporting a sustainable balance between RMI's economy and its natural environment, and to ensure improved coordination of all international and regional environmental programs and activities allowing policy coordination to rest directly with the office of the President.
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Based within the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, PacIOOS is the Pacific Islands regional component of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS�). PacIOOS is a partnership of data providers and users working together to enhance ocean observations and develop, disseminate, evaluate, and apply ocean data and information products designed to address the environmental, economic, and public safety needs of stakeholders who call the Pacific Islands home. For more information on PacIOOS, please visit www.pacioos.org.
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