Do algal blooms breed crime?
21 years of crime records across 67 Florida counties, joined with environmental data from four monitoring networks — a study run by criminologists, not oceanographers.
Open oceanographic data
A single place for all ocean data.
Observations from buoys, floats, gliders, and research cruises. Decades of records from dozens of providers.
360k+ datasets50+ data sourcesupdated continuously
Why AQUAVIEW
The data exists. Finding it is the hard part.
Ocean observations are spread across dozens of agencies, servers, and formats. Explore, research, and analyze all of them in one unified platform.
The old way
- Paginate 209,000 records out of NOAA NCEI's ArcGIS API — at a hostname you'd never guess.
- Sift hundreds of CoastWatch satellite products. VIIRS or MODIS? Daily or monthly?
- Track down sea surface temperature on a different ERDDAP server entirely.
- Hand-pick from NDBC's thousands of buoy stations, then download each one separately.
- Repeat for every other monitoring network your study needs.
With AQUAVIEW
One search across Florida’s Gulf Coast returns 18,514 datasets, including 8,766 World Ocean Database profiles, 470 SECOORA coastal stations, 100 CoastWatch satellite products, and 73 NDBC buoy stations.
- Slice by area, time window, and depth
- Take it back as NetCDF, Parquet, CSV, or Arrow
- Indexed continuously
In the platform
Dig into the data
In your systems
Use our data in your own systems
Bring the same ocean data catalog into your own tools. Let an AI agent query it over MCP, or call it straight from your code through a STAC-compliant REST API.
AI agent
You
MCP
mcp.aquaview.org/mcp
API
STAC-compliant REST
Under the hood
A catalog you can build on
One unified catalog
One search covers every provider — no more hunting across agency sites.
Always current
Indexed continuously, so you never publish an analysis on stale data.
Works with the tools you already use
STAC and OGC standards, read natively by QGIS, ArcGIS, R, and Python — nothing to convert.
Analyze it right away
A pre-loaded notebook takes you from dataset to first plot — no environment to set up.
Bring your own data
Index your sources alongside the public catalog.
In the field
Research built on AQUAVIEW
Published studies that used the catalog end to end — with public code you can check, run, and reuse.
Predicting coastal hypoxia
A model that flags oxygen crashes days before they start, fed by 12 stations across 3 data systems. The plan called for 9 stations — AQUAVIEW returned 14, five the team didn't know existed.
Not sure how this fits your stack?
Tell us what you’re building and we’ll help you work out the right way to get AQUAVIEW data into your systems.