Safe Marine Operations
AOOS-funded projects provide real-time data, information products, and tools to fishermen, mariners, resource managers, researchers, incident responders, coastal residents, and other ocean users.
Featured Projects
Using Vessel Tracking Data to Prioritize Bathymetric Surveying in a Rapidly Changing Arctic
Synthesizing sea ice observations from 1850 to present
Using AIS and subsistence use data for decision support
Enhancing safe, secure, and environmentally responsible maritime operations
Enabling coastal communities to gather and use wave data
Drawing on technology to foster dialogue and preparedness for potential oil spills
Observing wind, wave, current, storm, and sediment dynamics on the Beaufort Sea coast
Data integration and visualization to advance oil spill response in Cook Inlet
Commercial fishermen reporting vessel icing conditions
Real-time maps show ocean current speed and direction
Mooring system that transmitted real-time water column data in the Chukchi Sea
Transmitting real-time data through Automatic Information Systems
Contributing observations to a nationwide network for monitoring waves and beaches
Displays of real-time maritime conditions from multiple sources
Meteorological stations in Prince William Sound and Cook Inlet
Building storm surge and wave operational forecasting capacity for Western Alaska
Using Yup’ik knowledge to deploy wave buoys and ocean sensors