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IOOS

Our eyes on the ocean, coasts, and Great Lakes

U.S. IOOS is a national and regional partnership working to provide ocean, coastal and Great Lakes observations, data, tools, and forecasts to improve safety, enhance the economy, and protect our environment. Our primary purpose is to provide free and open data about the state of our oceans and Great Lakes to our users. These data are fundamental to understanding the health of our marine ecosystems, to monitor the climate signal as captured in oceanographic conditions, and to provide predictions about the future state of our oceans and coasts.

python
java
r
Zarr
NetCDF

open data
open science
data management
Oceanography
Marine Biodiversity

Project ideas

Its ideas page could not be split into separate ideas; read it yourself.

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2021, 5 years. Projects per year: '21: 3, '22: 4, '24: 6, '25: 8, '26: 7.

On GitHub

56 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: Python (19), Jupyter Notebook (10), Ruby (10), CSS (3), JavaScript (3), HTML (1).

Links and channels

Website: https://ioos.noaa.gov/
Ideas page: https://github.com/ioos/gsoc/blob/main/2026/ideas-list.md
Contributor guide: https://github.com/ioos/gsoc/blob/main/contributor-guidance.md
Source code: https://github.com/ioos
Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/g/ioos_tech/
Email: micah.wengren@noaa.gov
Email: mathew.biddle@noaa.gov
Email: ocefpaf@gmail.com

go deeper in your terminal

git-into-gsoc org "IOOS" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "IOOS"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "IOOS"

or ask your assistant:
"Which IOOS repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

Those commands read live data: which repositories merge outside pull requests, and which beginner issues nobody has claimed. Install in two minutes.