A Collaborative Effort

IOOS – National Ocean Observing

PacIOOS Areas

U.S. National Coordination

IOOS to meet 7 societal goals Improve predictions of climate change

and weather and their effects on coastal communities and the nation;

Mitigate the effects of natural hazards more effectively;

Improve the safety & efficiency of marine operations;

Improve national/homeland security;

Reduce public health risks;

Protect & restore healthy coastal ecosystems more effectively; and

Enable the sustained use of ocean and coastal resources.

CollaborationAmerican Samoa Community CollegeCollege of the Marshall IslandsConservation Society of PohnpeiMarine Environmental Research Institute - PohnpeiPacific Marine Resources Institute (CNMI)Palau Automated Land and Resource Information

SystemUniversity of GuamUniversity of Hawaii (UH Manoa – SOEST and Sea

Grant; UH Hilo)

What does PacIOOS do?

Data Collection: new sensors in the water

Data Aggregation: repository for geospatially referenced ocean data

What does PacIOOS do?Data

Visualization: create maps, images, or data products

Outreach/ Communication: regarding program and general ocean phenomena such as sea level rise and climate change

Current activitiesEngaging stakeholders and data users

Build partnerships for system growth

Searching for available data sets

Determine data and product needs

Distribute data currently available

Instruments deployed (being deployed)

Measure temperature, conductivity (salinity), depth, chlorophyll, and turbidity

Near shore sensors: Water quality

instruments

Locations chosen for: American Samoa Commonwealth of the

Northern Mariana Islands

Federated States of Micronesia Guam Republic of the Marshall Islands Palau

What do sensors tell us?More complete picture of chemical and

physical conditions of coastal waters

Education – time series of conditions, basis for location experiments /activities

Monitor for poor water quality events (can indicate excessive runoff of land-based water)

Contact informationpacioos.org

Maria Haws, Pacific Islands Coordinator haws@aol.com 

Jim Potemra, Data Management Team Lead jimp@hawaii.edu