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Purpose NANOOS has served the citizenry of the Pacific Northwest U.S. (PNW) for 20 years as a regional association of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS).

Over those years, NANOOS has consistently engaged the participation of several tribes and tribal associations, fishing and shellfish growing communities, and maritime operators at scales small to large because our data products enable their decisions in the coastal zone.

Our observing system is implemented by seven organizations in Washington and Oregon, and our priorities are guided by over 77-member organizations who make up our Governing Council (GC) and led by an elected Executive Committee with representatives from diverse sectors.

Consistently from the GC, we have heard great appreciation for maintaining the status quo, that our work is meaningful and useful.

There are two issues with doing that, however; the first is that systems wear out over time and it is increasingly difficult to find funding to recapitalize them, and the second is that we know that we are falling short of what could be done to address equity more adequately for under-represented, frontline communities.

This Inflation Reduction Act proposal addresses both issues.

Based on significant input to NANOOS from the GC, stakeholders, rightsholders, and our investigators, we present two goals for this proposed work:

Goal 1: Increase regional coastal resilience by investing in better detection of marine multi-stressors (e.g., HABs, hypoxia, marine heat waves) and enhanced coastal hazards assessment and storm event response;

Goal 2: Improve our observing system resilience by investing in the human infrastructure needed to maintain data management, to co-design data products and decision-support tools, and to engage a broader swath of communities.

Investments of funds will fit four general strategies:

1) Update/replace/refurbish existing assets;
2) Provide new capability on existing assets;
3) Gain a new asset for a sustaining partner; and
4) Expand the spatial extent and/or temporal frequency of an existing capability.

Goal 1 objectives are to recapitalize several key coastal ecosystem moorings, enhance the coordinated PNW HABs observing network, expand the spatial extent and temporal frequency of beach and shoreline surveys, and improve modeling and forecasting capabilities.

Benefits are to maintain reliable coastal ecosystem data delivery, fill spatial gaps and improve existing HAB observations, update datums to improve efficiency and interoperability of the data, and increase the relevance and reliability of model forecasts.

Goal 2 objectives address data management capacity, bolstering our outreach and engagement staff and user products development team, and supporting a program management team.

Benefits of the objectives are to maintain NANOOS as a NOAA certified data center and deliver near real-time data products to stakeholders, to maintain trusted relationships and build new ones with communities that can motivate and guide the formulation of revised and new data tools for NANOOS, and enable NANOOS to reliably perform its core functions while remaining agile to new needs and opportunities to sustain new efforts.

NANOOS proposes to not only recapitalize and modernize long-term infrastructure to support coastal resilience but also to strengthen the delivery of data products and forecasts to provide equitable service delivery to overburdened, underserved, and frontline communities in the NW.

We will focus on securing the hardware and human infrastructure to ensure the longevity, robustness, and utility of our long-term observational and modeling systems, and on activities that build capacity within overburdened, underserved, or frontline communities through outreach, education, and co-design of improved or new data products and decision-support tools.

Better understanding of and dissemination of ocean information decreases the vulnerability of coastal communities, increasing their resilience.

University Of Washington

18 CLIMATE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION 20 HEALTHY OCEANS 21 RESILIENT COASTAL COMMUNITIES AND ECONOMIES

11.012 - Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) [DOC]

Seattle, Washington 981056613 United States

Single Zip Code

NOAA-NOS-IOOS-2024-2008213