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