NOAA today announced that the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) Advisory Committee will hold a public meeting in Moss Landing, CA on June 27-29.
The meeting will include discussion on ocean observations and West Coast collaborations, as well as continued work on phase 2 recommendations from the Committee workplan.
The Committee is tasked with advising the NOAA Administrator and the Interagency Ocean Observation Committee on issues including the administration, operation, management, and maintenance of the U.S. IOOS, expansion and periodic modernization and upgrade of technology components of IOOS, the identification of end-user communities, their IOOS-related information needs, and the effectiveness of IOOS in disseminating information, a national surface current mapping network, fleet acquisition for unmanned maritime systems for deployment and data integration, an integrative survey program for application of unmanned maritime systems to the real-time or near real-time data collection and transmission, remote sensing and data assimilation, integrated, multistate sediment monitoring, and a multi-region marine sound monitoring system.
