PacIOOS Forecast Notification System: The PacIOOS Forecast Notification System has been updated and is available on the PacIOOS website! The notification system is designed to send an alert to your registered device when there is a forecast of a high sea level or impact event for the selected location. https://notifications.pacioos.hawaii.edu/
CETACEAN Data Repository is now live! This five-year collaborative project is focusing on helping to restore Gulf cetacean populations following the Deepwater Horizon spill. Online at cetacean.gcoos.org.
The Salish Sea and Columbia River Operational Forecast System (SSCOFS) data is live on the IOOS Model Viewer. Check it out here: https://oceansmap.com/link/5ATm_RB8Q32ZXxVnLd_mdA
Real-Time Shark Detection Buoys Deployed: The Shark Lab at CSU Long Beach deployed two new real-time acoustic receiver buoys with support from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding. These buoys, now operational off San Onofre and Ventura, collect and transmit air temperature, near-surface water temperature, and acoustic transmitter detections. Additionally, each buoy is equipped with sensors near the seafloor to measure water temperature, chlorophyll, and dissolved oxygen. These sensors are collecting critical shark detection and environmental data, transmitted in real-time to California lifeguards to enhance beach safety. By early 2025, this data will also be accessible via the SCCOOS and CeNCOOS data portal. https://data.caloos.org/
Northeast Pacific Acoustic Telemetry node: AOOS is a key partner in the development of the new Northeast Pacific Acoustic Telemetry (N-PAcT) node, an initiative focused on building partnerships to better understand marine species on the move. This collaborative network will unite researchers and organizations from Alaska to Baja California who are actively working or interested in tracking marine animals using acoustic telemetry. https://aoos.org/announcing-the-northeast-pacific-acoustic-telemetry-node/
Join IOOS and mentor a student for Google Summer of Code 2025! IOOS plans to apply for our fourth year as a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) mentoring organization in 2025. To have the best chance of being re-accepted, we need as many quality projects ideas and mentors from our extended DMAC community (you!) to include in our application by the Feb 11 deadline. https://ioos.noaa.gov/news/google-summer-of-code-2025-application/
Establishing bio-logging data collections as dynamic archives of animal life on Earth: A new paper published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, highlights the progress made within the bio-logging community, including networks such as the U.S. Animal Telemetry Network (ATN), to increase the availability of telemetry data. This paper also included recommendations for more coordination and support to sustain efforts across relevant stakeholders and contains a global map of existing projects currently available within the ATN, alongside other bio-logging platforms around the world (Figure 1). https://rdcu.be/d5ptG
NOAA and BOEM WTRIM coordination: NOAA and BOEM have fully executed an Annex to the NOAA-BOEM Memorandum of Understanding to Coordinate and Collaborate on High-Frequency Radar Interference Mitigation. This addendum to a 2022 MOU between NOAA and BOEM establishes a mechanism to ensure that offshore wind lessees are responsible for mitigating potential interference from their turbines to the IOOS HF-radar National Network. The Annex includes specific measures to be included in the terms and conditions of BOEM’s approval of any offshore wind projects with foreseeable oceanographic HF-radar impacts. Those terms include OSW lessees instrumenting their wind farms with ocean surface current and wave sensors, and telemetering those data to IOOS for public distribution for the life of the wind farm.
New informational video provides a primer on Alaska HABs: The Alaska Harmful Algal Bloom Network announced the release of a new informational video that provides insight into harmful algal blooms (HABs) and their impacts across Alaska. https://aoos.org/new-informational-video-provides-a-primer-on-harmful-algal-blooms-in-alaska/
NANOOS Buoys Rescued! Many thanks to the U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards and the Makah Tribe for their roles in helping recover valuable assets affected by unusually intense storm action in the Pacific Northwest. The CRITFC/CMOP Plume buoy, the UW/APL Cha’ba buoy, and one of the Quileute Tribe’s two Backyard Buoys spotter buoys took unplanned journeys — you can read more about the recoveries at the link. https://www.nanoos.org/news/index.php?item=ThankYouCoastGuards241219
