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News and Updates from PacIOOS
Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System
February 2012
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New High Water Level Forecast Tools Released on PacIOOS.org
Addressing requests from the region, PacIOOS added another location- Majuro Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands- to a suite of locations throughout the Pacific islands receiving advanced notice of the potential for high sea levels. The Majuro High Water Level Forecast tool indicates when flooding of the lowest lying land in the area is expected. Other locations with this tool are dispersed throughout the State of Hawaii, American Samoa and in the Marshall Islands. In addition, PacIOOS also just released two High Sea-Level and Wave Run-Up Forecast tools for Waikiki and the North Shore of O'ahu. These tools account for additional sea level rise driven by surface gravity waves in these two locations.
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PacIOOS Governing Council Convened in Guam
The PacIOOS Go verning Council, with representatives from various sectors including transportation, tourism, resource management, local and national government and non-governmnet organizations, met in Tamuning, Guam on February 2-3, 2012, at the Outrigger Guam Resort. The purpose of the meeting was to review program progress towards milestones, discuss future planning and implementation priorities, and explore potential partnerships and initiatives. Click here for a list of the current PacIOOS Governing Council members.
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New PacIOOS Wave Buoy Deployed 
Captain Steve Juarez navigated the Pacific Maid to deploy new PacIOOS Datawell Mark II Waverider Buoy in the coastal waters off Kahului, Maui, near the famous Peahi surf break. This buoy joins our existing network of six real-time wave buoys in Hawaii, Guam, and the Marshall Islands and provides streaming data on wave height, direction, period, and water temperature to the PacIOOS website. This buoy off Maui's north shore will help to inform safe transit entering and exiting Kahului Harbor, provide real-time data to recreational ocean users (such as surfers, sailors, and paddlers), and provide critical information for coastal hazard low-lying inundation forecasts for north-facing shores. In the coming months, PacIOOS will deploy additional wave buoys off Hawaii Island, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and Midway. Click here for a drop down menu of all the PacIOOS wave buoys and direct links to the data they provide.
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The Pacific GIS Catalog and Data Explorer
The Pacific GIS Catalog and Data Explorer is primarily for technical users with need for data of the insular Pacific. It is a free, highly accessible, and flexible GIS-based mapper with an open source, searchable catalog viewer. The Pacific GIS Catalog and Data Explorer also provides quick access to metadata and is great for the technically-savvy users that want the functionality of GIS at their fingertips without proprietary restrictions.
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PacIOOS Workshop at Upcoming 2012 Hawaii Pacific GIS Conference
 In conjunction with the upcoming Hawaii Pacific GIS Conference jointly sponsored by the Hawaii Geographic Information Coordinating Council and the Hawaii State GIS Program, PacIOOS' Spatial Data and Application Specialists
are offering a 1/2 day workshop on Thursday, March 8, 2012, from 1:30 - 5:00 p.m. at the University of Hawaii. The workshop, titled Open Source Applications in Web Mapping, will cover two parallel approaches for sharing and displaying spatial data. For more information on this workshop, including how to register, please click here.
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New PacIOOS Metadata Outlet now Available
This dataset listing helps identify what PacIOOS offers in terms of metadata/documentation for various datasets available on our website. Links to this documentation answer questions to who, what, where, when, why, and how about various datasets. PacIOOS aims to collect and provide metadata in order to help users find and understand geospatial data that meet their requirements- temporally, spatially, thematically, or otherwise. Furthermore, in order to make this outlet human-friendly, metadata are available in three flavors: HTML, text, and XML.
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PacIOOS is the Pacific Islands regional component of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS). Our mission is to provide timely, reliable, and accurate information on the open and coastal ocean waters of the Pacific Islands to ensure a healthy, clean, productive ocean and resilient coastal zone. For more information on PacIOOS or to become a partner please visit www.pacioos.org or contact the PacIOOS Director, Chris Ostrander, at chriso@hawaii.edu.
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