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Backyard Buoys to Help Support Blue Economy
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Backyard Buoys to Help Support Blue Economy

A new effort to gather wave data to enhance the blue economy, including maritime activities, food security and coastal hazard protection, is underway with National Science Foundation (NSF) funds to improve ocean data access for Indigenous communities. NOAA officials said the Backyard Buoys project would empower Indigenous and other coastal communities to collect, steward and use wave data that complements their existing knowledge to support their blue economy. Innovations in the works currently include a modular, sustainable process for community-led stewardship of affordable ocean buoys and co-designed web-based applications that render data easy to access and understand and bridge to Indigenous knowledge. The NOAA-led U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System effort is being financed v...