High-resolution air-sea observations collected by a suite of remotely-piloted uncrewed surface vehicles (USV) provide new insight on surface latent and sensible heat fluxes associated with convective cold pools over the eastern Pacific Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). Convective cold pools are linked to isolated, heavily precipitating cells o
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A new spionid polychaete was discovered in deep-sea sediments in the eastern Mediterranean Sea during an expedition by the Ocean Exploration Trust. Specimens were collected by the E/V Nautilus in August 2012 off Turkey, at a depth of 2216 m on the Anaximander Seamount at the Amsterdam mud volcano site. Cores were taken from sediments covered with m
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In coral reef ecosystems, mesophotic coral habitat ( >30 m to the end of the photic zone) are extensions of shallow reefs and contribute to the persistence of coral reef populations. In the North West Gulf of Mexico (NW GOM), the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (FGBNMS) is an isolated reef ecosystem comprising contiguous shallow and m
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The NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer (EX), owned and maintained by the NOAA Office of Marine and Aviation Operations (OMAO) and operated by the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER) and the Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration (GFOE), is NOAA’s only vessel solely dedicated to exploration of the deep ocean. This document outlines a plan f
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This document contains project instructions specific to EX-22-05. For the annual cross-expedition details, see the “NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer FY22 Field Season Instructions.” This expedition will commence on June 16, 2022, in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and conclude on July 13, 2022, in Horta, Faial, Azores. Operations will be conducted 24 hours per
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This document contains project instructions specific to EX-22-03. For the annual, cross-expedition details, see the “NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer FY2022 Field Season Instructions.” This expedition will commence on April 4, 2022, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and conclude on April 28, 2022, in Newport, Rhode Island. It will include 24-hour-a-day acoustic
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This document contains project instructions specific to EX-22-04. For the annual, crossexpedition details, see the “NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer FY2022 Field Season Instructions.” This expedition will commence on May 11, 2022 in Newport, Rhode Island, and conclude on June 7, 2022 in St. Johns, Newfoundland. EX-22-04 is the first of a series of three
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Cruise NF-19-09 on the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster was the fifth and final cruise of the DEEPSEARCH program and occurred from 22-30 October 2019. Overall, the cruise was very successful and we accomplished most of our major scientific objectives. The major objectives included: 1) retrieval of the NIOZ benthic lander from Richardson Hills, 2) mid-water t
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The “Search of the Lost Whaling Fleets of the Western Arctic” conducted systematic and comprehensive seabed mapping surveys of an area of the Chukchi Sea coast that was the site of the abandonment of 33 whaling ships caught in the sea ice in 1871. Before the mission, this nearshore area was largely unexplored and poorly mapped. The purpose of the c
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The Windows to the Deep 2021: Southeast U.S. ROV and Mapping expedition (EX-21-07) was a combined mapping and remotely operated vehicle (ROV) expedition to the Blake Plateau and Florida Straits that took place between October 26, 2021, and November 15, 2021.
EX-22-07 operations will involve a transit westward from San Juan, Puerto Rico through the Panama Canal to the Pacific Ocean. This expedition will focus on transiting to the Pacific Ocean. Mission objectives for EX-22-07 include a variety of objectives focused on science education, outreach, and data management. Overarching objectives that span the
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The purpose of this report is to briefly describe the acoustic seafloor, water column, and subseafloor mapping data collection and processing methods used by NOAA Ocean Exploration on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer during the Windows to the Deep 2021: Southeast U.S. ROV and Mapping expedition, EX-21-07, and to present a summary of mapping results and m
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