Backyard Buoys

backyard buoys empowers indigenous and other coastal communities to collect and use ocean data to support their blue economy: maritime activities, food security, and coastal hazard protection. innovations include a sustainable process for community-led stewardship of affordable ocean buoys and a web-based application that renders data easy to understand and bridges to indigenous knowledge. backyard buoys brings together geographically, academically, institutionally, and culturally diverse groups of partners: • pacific northwest: northwest association of networked ocean observing systems (nanoos), quileute tribe, quinault indian nation, western washington university • alaska: alaska ocean observing system (aoos), alaska eskimo whaling commission, university of alaska fairbanks, alaska dept of natural resources, alaska native science & engineering program • pacific islands: pacific islands ocean observing system (pacioos), marshall islands conservation society, national park of america