NOAA’s Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI) will be hosting its annual Blue Economy Career Exploration Fair.

September 25, 2024

The NOAA Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI), which brings together multiple institutions and organizations to develop new technologies, explore the vast U.S. submerged territory, and engage and train the next generation of ocean explorers to build the blue economy workforce, was recently renewed for another five years of operation.

Check out Ocean Exploration Trust’s recent blog post about OECI intern Nathan Lannon! Nathan is a student in OECI’s Bridge to Ocean Exploration Program.

KINGSTON, R.I. – Jan. 23, 2024 – A trip to the deep floor of the ocean is somewhat akin to going to the moon. Like the landers on the moon, a benthic lander can make it happen, just a little closer to home.

August 9, 2023

A curious conveyor has been at work in the Gulf of Mexico this summer, busily shuttling pieces of vividly colored, fan-like corals to new homes on the deep seafloor.

By Ellen Liberman

It took $3 billion dollars, 13 years and a score of universities and research centers in six countries to sequence nearly the entire human genome.

As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of The International Hydrographic Review (IHR) one might ask why we would devote a paper to the topic of the future of ocean exploration.

Successful interagency partnership used prototype uncrewed survey platform to address ocean exploration and characterization gaps in remote area

Saildrone surveyed more than 45,000 square kilometers of previously unknown ocean floor around Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and off the California coast to address ocean exploration gaps in remote areas.