The United States Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®) is a user-driven, coordinated network of people, organizations, and technology that generate and disseminate continuous data about our coastal waters, Great Lakes, and oceans supported by strong research and development activities. IOOS enables decision making every day and fosters advances in science and technology. US IOOS is the United States’ contribution to the Global Ocean Observing System which is part of the ocean contribution to the Global Earth Observation Systems of Systems (GEOSS).

1. U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS®)
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Improve safety Enhance our economy Protect our environment
Zdenka Willis
Director, US IOOS Office

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U.S. IOOS®: Program Overview
Partnership effort that leverages dispersed national investments to deliver ocean,
coastal and Great Lakes data relevant to decision-makers
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Coastal Component
– 17 Federal agencies
– 13 regional partners
Global Component
– US contribution to GOOS
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World Wide Picture
United States’ Contribution

4. GOOS elements
US contribution (tan)

5. IOOS - National Backbone
607: Buoys, Water Level Gauges,
Coastal and Estuary stations
PORTS®Satellites
Stream Gauges
Water Quality Research Infrastructure
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6. IOOS – Regional Component
449: Buoys, Water Level Gauges,
Coastal and Estuary stations
High Frequency Radar
Waves
Tagging
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7. IOOS: Advancing Communities
HF Radar:
Gliders:
Animal Telemetry:
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Wave Measurements:
Biological Variables
& BIO TT

8. US IOOS Program Office: DMAC Focus
Technical solutions
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Building community
Implementation across the
enterprise
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Technical solutions
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PeopleProcessTechnology

9. DMAC: Delivering Information
http://catalog.ioos.us
http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/catalog
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Global Telecommunications System

10. Modeling
Hurricane
GFDL
HWRF
Global
Forecast
System
Coupled
Oceans
HYCOM
WaveWatch
III
NOS – OFS
•Great Lakes
•Northern Gulf
of Mex
•Columbia R.
Bays
• Chesapeake
• Tampa
• Delaware
Sea
Nettle
Forecast
CariCOOS
Wave Model
Regional
Modeling
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11. NOAA’s PORTS® - 24 systems
Without: Ocean Observations and Forecasts
We couldn’t move
Navigation Charts IOOS – Regional Associations

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13. Northeast Coastal Acidification Network
(NECAN)
• Leadership by IOOS- NERACOOS
• Nexus of scientists, federal and
state agencies, and industry
partners
• Coordinates regional observing
and research to identify and
communicate critical
vulnerabilities to OA
- 16 Webinars; State of the Science
Workshop
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14. OpenOcean
Workgroup
NOAA US
Fishery Data
3D Ocean
Observations
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Physical Models
Regional
Habitat
Projections
To Inform Existing Single Species
Stock Assessment Models
(Catchability/Availability)
Catchability = availability * detectability
Science, Management, and
Industry Partnership

15. Biological and Physical Data Integration
Emerging capability: Beta version of emerging marine mammal health mapping tool
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16. Marine Sensor Innovation
Sensor Evaluation
Coastal Modeling
Test bed
Ocean Technology
Transition
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17.  A third-party testbed for evaluating technologies
 PH Sensors (2013/2014) – 7
 DO Sensors II (2014/2015) – 10
 Nutrient Sensor Challenge (2015/2016)
 A forum for capacity and consensus building
 An information clearinghouse for environmental technologies
ACT Services
Alliance for Coastal Technologies
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18. US IOOS Coastal & Ocean Modeling Testbed
• Venue to facilitate testing and transitions into operations.
• Improving ties to different NOAA and partner Agency
modeling efforts.
• 5 projects; Hypoxia in Gulf of Mexico and Chesapeake Bay,
Inundation in PR/USVI, West Coast Operational Forecast
System, CI tools for comparing models/data
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19. Ocean Technology Transition
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Fostering the transition of advanced observing technologies to operations mode.
Detecting
Arctic Freeze Up
Real-Time

20. Marine Biodiversity
• 3 MBON projects: showing how
marine and coastal data can be
integrated into the system
• This U.S. regional contribution to
GEO BON
• Four geographic areas:
– the Florida Keys
– Monterey Bay
– Santa Barbara Channel Islands
– U.S. Chukchi Sea
• http://www.ioos.noaa.gov/biodive
rsity/welcome.html
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Credit: MBARI

21. Enables decision making
Fosters Advances in Science and Technology
www.noaa.ioos.gov
https://www.facebook.com/usioosgov
@usioosgov
US IOOS at Work
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