NOAA’s National Ocean Service today announced that the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System Advisory Committee will hold a virtual public meeting on Monday, June 14. The meeting, which will include three public comment periods, will focus on the Committee Recommendations Report to NOAA and Interagency Ocean Observation Committee leadership, the administration’s FY 2022 budget request, coastal resilience, and planning for the Fall public meeting.
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, and the identification of end-user communities, their IOOS-related information needs, and the effectiveness of IOOS in disseminating information.