Buoys and Stations Collecting Weather and Ocean Data
Highest winds: 32 mph | Matinicus Rock (MISM1) | 7:00 AM
Biggest waves: 9.3 ft | Northeast Channel (N01) | 7:00 AM
Hourly information developed for marine operations. Includes wind, wave, visibility, air temperature, water temperature at various depths and more. Real-time, forecast and historical data is available from GoMOOS, NOAA and other regional monitoring efforts.
Important Notice About GoMOOS Buoys
Due to federal funding shortfalls, several of the GoMOOS buoys will likely be removed during the Fall 2008 deployment. Please click here for more information (Update: November 7th, 2008).
GoMOOS is helping make environmental data more accessible and useful by adopting community data standards. As a member of the Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC), GoMOOS is sharing and helping others share data using OGC specifications.
November 7th 2008 - Status update on the GoMOOS Buoys
October 10th 2008 - Update on Buoy F
Maine Sea Grant comes to the aid of the Penobscot Bay data buoy (Buoy F) Click here for more information.
More News
New UNH Wave Buoy on Jeffrey’s Ledge
Important: Several GoMOOS Buoys Likely to be Removed (August 26th, 2008)
The GoMOOS Observer - Summer (June 25, 2008)
Mass of Endangered Right Whales detected in Mass Bay (April 10, 2008)
2008 Ocean Observing Educators Institute Workshop (April 9, 2008)
GoMOOS recognized by the Open Geospatial Consortium (April 2, 2008)
A New Look For GoMOOS.org! (September 7, 2007)
The GoMOOS Observer - Fall (September 7, 2007)
GoMOOS Beta site launched (June 29, 2007)
The GoMOOS Observer - The Patriot's Day Storm (May 31, 2007)
Putting the "Integrated" in IOOS (April 30, 2007)
OGC - The Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC) is a non-profit, international, voluntary consensus standards organization that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services.
The Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (NERACOOS) is being established to network and expand the existing observing and prediction capacities of a multitude of institutions and agencies throughout New England and Maritime Canada.
The purpose of the Gulf of Maine Ocean Data Partnership is to promote and coordinate the sharing, linking, electronic dissemination, and use of data on the Gulf of Maine region.
ACT - Alliance for Coastal Technologies is a NOAA funded partnership of research institutions, state and regional resource managers, and private sector companies interested in developing and applying sensor technologies for monitoring coastal environments.
A provider-to-user data systems framework, enabling discovery and use of data through OGC Sensor Web Enablement Standards.
OpenIOOS is a grass-roots partnership effort to support integration of the various activities involved in collection of observations and making predictions of the coastal environment.
SCOOP - Southeastern Universities Research Association Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction
