NOAA’s Big Data Partnership and Applications to Ocean Sciences

New opportunities for the distribution of NOAA’s oceanographic and other environmental data are being explored through NOAA’s Big Data Partnership (BDP) with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, IBM, Microsoft Corp. and the Open Cloud Consortium. This partnership was established in April 2015 through Cooperative Research and Development Agreements, and is seeking new, financially self-sustaining collaborations between the Partners and the federal government centered upon NOAA’s data and their potential value in the information marketplace. We will discuss emerging opportunities for collaboration among businesses and NOAA, progress in making NOAA’s ocean data more widely accessible through the Partnerships, and applications based upon this access to NOAA’s data.