Affiliated Programs
The Texas Automated Buoy System (TABS) is a coastal network of moored buoys that report near–real-time observations about currents and winds along the Texas coast. Established in 1995, the primary mission of TABS is ocean observations in the service of oil spill preparedness and response. Affiliated programs include:
- Mechanisms Controlling Hypoxia
- Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System
- National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
- Global Ocean Observing System
- Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans
- National Association of Marine Labs
- Southern Association of Marine Laboratories
- University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System
