Our Changing Coasts & Oceans: Forecasting Our Future

The 7 goals of IOOS:

  1. Improve predictions of climate change and weather and their effects on coastal communities and the nation
  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. Reducte 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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Last update: 17 May 2006 - 10:38am