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January 30, 2015 
Happy New Year from PacIOOS!
Start out this year by reading about all the cool products and information offered by PacIOOS, or visit our website to learn more!
What's New in Voyager?
Get a Glimpse of the Deep Sea in Real-Time!
Check out the live video 
stream feed in Voyager.

Last month Voyager brought you live audio and other measurements from the ALOHA Cabled Observatory (ACO). This month we bring you live video feed from the ACO site! Since June 2011, the ALOHA Cabled Observatory has been providing real-time oceanographic observations from a depth of 4,800m via a submarine fiber optic cable that comes ashore on O'ahu.

A video camera was added to the ACO instrumentation during a cruise in November 2014, and is now streaming online. Check out the video on Voyager, and you may spot a sea cucumber, shrimp, jellyfish, squid, or other deep sea life!
High Resolution Global 1-km Sea Surface Temperature
Global 1-km Sea Surface Temperature daily composite for January 23, 2015

A high resolution Global 1-km Sea Surface Temperature (G1SST) daily composite produced by NASA Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) is now available in Voyager. This blended product optimally interpolates sea surface temperature observations from over 8 satellite instruments and many in situ observations. The G1SST composite is produced daily.

Voyager displays daily, weekly, or monthly satellite data of G1SST from June 2010 to present day.
Three New Biology-Related Satellite Datasets
Example of a monthly Chromatic Dissolved Inorganic
Matter (CDOM) composite, Dec. 14, 2014
 

Three new biology-related satellite datasets are derived from the Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer

(MODIS): chromophoric (colored) dissolved organic matter (CDOM), particulate organic carbon (POC), and particulate inorganic carbon (PIC). These composites are produced by the Ocean Biology Processing Group at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and are used by scientists to gain a better understanding of phytoplankton and their impact on the Earth system through the oceanic carbon cycle. Access Voyager to display daily, weekly, or monthly satellite data from 2003 to present day!

 

Thank you to our colleagues at the NOAA OceanWatch West Coast regional node of the Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory for hosting the data and for making them available.

PacIOOS Activities
PacIOOS Participates in Holiday Tech Fair
 
PacIOOS staff engage with interested
attendees at the Holiday Tech Fair.

 

On December 29th, PacIOOS joined other local organizations and industries at Hawai'i's 15th Annual Holiday Tech Fair. PacIOOS staff showcased the types of technical and scientific careers that are possible with programs like PacIOOS. Governor David Y. Ige also stopped by the PacIOOS booth to learn about the program's mission and its ocean observation and forecasting data. 

 

With a focus on ocean monitoring, forecasting, and online interactive data access, PacIOOS operations require a team contributing many different skill sets and areas of expertise to be successful!! Click here for more information on the different types of careers possible with ocean observing systems.

IOOS News
IOOS Pacific Regional Ocean Acidification Data Portal
Check out the new IOOS Pacific Region Ocean Acidification Data Portal!

PacIOOS is contributing data streams to the IOOS Pacific Region Ocean Acidification Data Portal. The portal was released in December 2014 and provides data relevant to ocean acidification from IOOS partners in the Pacific region. The portal was funded by U.S. IOOS and also includes data streams contributed by regional IOOS observing systems in Alaska (AOOS), Washington and Oregon (NANOOS), Central and Northern California (CeNCOOS), Southern California (SCCOOS), as well as NOAA's Ocean Acidification Program (OAP), NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL).

Funded by NOAA, the purpose of the portal is to further improve the availability of ocean data to the aquaculture communities facing challenges due to ocean acidification.
In an effort to further understand the changes in ocean chemistry and its impact on aquaculture, NOAA recently announced funding of $1.4M over 3 years to help shellfish growers and scientific experts to work together to expand ocean acidification monitoring in waters particularly important to Pacific coastal communities. Visit the new Ocean Acidification Data Portal to find a large array of datasets!
PacIOOS People
Meet Melanie: A Professional Shark Researcher Extraordinaire

 

Dr. Melanie Hutchinson recently graduated with a Ph.D in Zoology from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. She started in Dr. Kim Holland's lab in 2007. Since then, her skill set has grown to include catching and tagging fish, programming tags, servicing underwater equipment, diving, husbandry, database management, research, and writing. She does all of this to elucidate the habitat use and movement behavior of marine fishes. While many days require endless hours of computing data, writing grants, and testing new technologies, Melanie thrives in the international fieldwork component of her research. 

  

 

 

Melanie has played an integral role in the recent tiger shark tagging efforts supported in part by PacIOOS, and is proud that her graduate work contributes to improved conservation of pelagic shark populations. Currently, she is working in Dr. Holland's lab and pursuing opportunities that will allow her to continue contributing to the fields of shark conservation, research, and tagging. While Melanie has traveled extensively with this career, we are so glad she landed here! She has provided countless hours of support to further PacIOOS' efforts in research and development, outreach, and student training. Big Mahalo, Melanie!


 
Based within the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaiʻi 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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