NOAA’s Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI) will be hosting its 3rd annual Blue Economy Career Exploration Fair.
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Deep-sea study fleet taking shape at URI
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.
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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.
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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.
Continue reading "Oceanography, Meet Big Data"Uncrewed surface systems facilitating a new era of global ocean exploration
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.
Continue reading "Uncrewed surface systems facilitating a new era of global ocean exploration"BOEM-Sponsored Saildrone Surveyor Expedition Returning Home After Exploring Aleutian Islands
Successful interagency partnership used prototype uncrewed survey platform to address ocean exploration and characterization gaps in remote area
Continue reading "BOEM-Sponsored Saildrone Surveyor Expedition Returning Home After Exploring Aleutian Islands"Saildrone Completes World-first Uncrewed Alaska Ocean Mapping Mission
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.
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Supporting Oceanographic Research through Partnerships. The National Oceanographic Partnership Program under the Ocean Policy Committee is the nation’s flagship program to facilitate ocean research partnerships across government and other sectors.
Continue reading "Biden-Harris Administration Advances Ocean Science and Technology through Partnerships"Interagency Public-Private Partnership Sends Uncrewed Saildrone to Explore Remote Alaskan Waters
On August 11, 2022, the Saildrone Surveyor departed Dutch Harbor in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, embarking on a multipartner project to better understand the ocean and seafloor in one of the most remote and understudied parts of the United States. NOAA Ocean Exploration and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) are the primary sponsors of this work.
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Hawaii Public Radio | By Zoe Dym
Published May 26, 2022 at 10:44 AM HST
Exploration Vessel Nautilus has concluded its third expedition for this year. The Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute led the most recent mission to advance the tools used in its work. Engineers tested three remotely operated vehicles in waters south of the main Hawaiian Islands.