Indigenous coastal communities have depended on ocean resources over millennia, but climate change is creating a more unpredictable ocean by influencing waves patterns, sea level, temperature, and other variables, significantly impacting remote coastal communities.

The Pacific Islands Ocean Observing System (PacIOOS) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) is collaborating with partners in the Pacific Islands, the Pacific Northwest, and Alaska to improve ocean data access for Indigenous coastal communities through a new project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Convergence Accelerator program.