• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2012-06-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The EX-12-05 Leg 1 cruise represents a partnership between NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, National Science Foundation (NSF) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) - with each partner...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2012-05-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

This summer, an interdisciplinary scientific team spent 9 days aboard the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's research vessel Atlantis II and used the deep-sea manned submersible...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2013-06-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Between May 13 and May 18, shakedown operations will: ensure all scientific sonars are in good working order after dry dock operations; assess noise reduction modifications to the sub-bottom...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2012-04-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

EX1202 Leg I of NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer (EX) is focused on exploration of North Eastern region of Gulf of Mexico using the ships’ Kongsberg EM302 multibeam sonar, EK 60 and Knudsen...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2012-04-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

During EX1202 Leg II between March 19 and April 7, 2012 on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer (EX), 24-hour operations will be split between daytime ROV operations at depths less than 4000m and...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2013-07-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

ROV exploration of the Northeast U.S. Deepwater Canyons complementing and continuing the work of the 2012 ACUMEN expedition. The two legs of EX1304 will perform systematic exploration,...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2013-05-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Following annual ship shakedown and patch tests, EX1301 will complete the comprehensive mapping of the Northeast canyons and the adjacent continental shelf carried out by the cruises involved in...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2011-09-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

This cruise will embark from Balboa, Panama, will transit and collect underway data through the Panama Canal toward the primary operating area, will focus its scientific objectives on...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2012-05-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

During the Okeanos Explorer (EX) mission EX1204, the vessel will sail from Norfolk, VA, along the continental shelf break of the U.S. East Coast from Virginia to Rhode Island, to the...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2011-11-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

In EX-11-06, the final cruise involving the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer in the 2011 Field Season, the ship will depart from Pascagoula, MS, round the Florida Keys, transit along the...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2012-04-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

EX1201 is the 2012 shakedown mission of NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer (EX) and will perform system patch tests of the vessel’s Kongsberg EM302 multibeam sonar. EX1201 operations are...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2012-10-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

EX1206 was added and is now the final cruise of the 2012 season for Okeanos Explorer (EX). It will be primarily focused on further supplementing Northeast canyon and continental shelf...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2012-06-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

EX1205 Leg 2 is the final cruise of the 2012 season for Okeanos Explorer (EX). It will be primarily focused on supplementing Northeast canyon and continental shelf mapping efforts...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2012-06-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

During EX1202 Leg III between April 11 and April 29, 2012 on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer (EX), 24-hour operations occured in targeted areas in the Northern Gulf of Mexico and the Flower...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2012-05-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Five seamounts (Denson, Dickins, Pratt, Welker and Giacomini) in the Gulf of Alaska that had not previously been observed by manned submersible or ROV were thoroughly mapped with...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2011-10-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

During this OER project in partnership with NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE), two ships will work...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2013-07-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Transit mapping operations will collect bathymetric, water column backscatter, seafloor backscatter data, and sub-bottom profile data.

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2012-05-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

EX1203 of NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer (EX) will run its Kongsberg EM302 multibeam sonar survey system 24 hours per day with periodic XBT casts for calibration. One to three CTD casts are...

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