Program Reference Documents

• U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System: A Blueprint for Full Capability Ver 1.0 (pdf) 2010
  
  
• The Business Case for Improving NOAA’s Management and Integration of Ocean and Coastal Data (pdf) 2009
  
  
• IWGOO IOOS Strategic Plan (pdf) 2008
  
  
• Revised NOAA IOOS Program Strategic Plan (pdf) 2009
  
  
• IOOS STRATEGIC PLAN 2008 - 2014 (pdf) 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IOOS Foundational Documents Archive

From 2000 to 2008, Ocean.US, the National Office for Integrated and Sustained Ocean Observations led the nation in planning for IOOS^®, the Integrated Ocean Observing System. As a result of its significant efforts, including a pivotal series of community building workshops and planning reports, a U.S. IOOS is being implemented. Below are the publications generated during those efforts.

Ocean.US PUBLICATIONS & REPORTS