Ocean.US Web Portal

Ocean.US, the National Office for Integrated and Sustained Ocean Observations, was established by the Congressionally-created National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP). Since its establishment in 2000, Ocean.US has catalyzed the coordinated development of an Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS), the U.S. contribution to a Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and to the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS).

IOOS has seven goals:

1. Improve predictions of climate change and weather.
   
2. Improve the safety and efficiency of maritime operations.
   
3. More effectively mitigate the effects of natural hazards.
   
4. Improve national and homeland security.
   
5. Reduce public health risks.
6. More effectively protect and restore healthy coastal ecosystems.
   
7. Enable the sustained use of ocean and coastal resources.

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