• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2005-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The New Zealand American Submarine Ring of Fire 2005 (NZASRoF'05) Expedition explored active submarine volcanoes in the Kermadec Arc, located north of New Zealand, with a pair of manned...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2014-06-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The goal of the Bonaire 2008 expedition is to survey this unique environment over a greater depth range than can be reached with compressed air scuba, using three autonomous underwater...

• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2009-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Bioluminescence is a fascinating phenomenon that is relatively rare on land but is common in all the world's oceans. At least 12 animal phyla, as well as Eubacteria and Protista, have marine...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2006-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

In April 2006, Alaska's Office of History and Archaeology (OHA) collaborated with the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), the University of Rhode Island (URI), the U.S. Minerals Management...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2005-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Deep coral habitats are more extensive and important than previously known, and at the same time they are being threatened. These high profile features may concentrate exploitable resources and...

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• Organization: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• Updated: 2025-04-01

<p>The Transformational Tools and Technologies (TTT) Project advances state-of-the-art computational and experimental tools and technologies that are vital to aviation applications in the six...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2023-11-01T19:26:26.000+00:00

Our expedition took us to unexplored waters south of the Philippine Islands, in search of the strange, and possibly unknown, fishes, jellyfishes, squids, and shrimps that live in the...

• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2006-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

A total of 24 Alvin dives were made at 10 sites. Chemosynthetic communities were found at all of the sites, along with hydrocarbon seepage, carbonates, and occasional brine seeps. Seep-related...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2006-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Building off the successes of an Office of Ocean Exploration (OE) expedition to Davidson Seamount in 2002, this project will focus on deep-water corals. The week-long expedition in 2002 was the...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2005-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

In June/July 2005, an international team of 45 scientists from the United States, Canada, China and Russia participated in a collaborative effort to explore the frigid depths of the Canada Basin,...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2023-10-30T21:00:11.000+00:00

The types of environmental data and information that will be created during the course of the project include raw DNA sequences and quality scores, assembled DNA sequences, translated...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2006-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

In December 2005 and January 2006, an interdisciplinary team of 38 scientists ventured to a deep sea site north of the Galapagos Islands to conduct research on the Galapagos Spreading Center,...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2012-11-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The goal of the Bonaire 2008 expedition is to survey this unique environment over a greater depth range than can be reached with compressed air scuba, using three autonomous underwater...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2023-10-30T20:55:40.000+00:00

Each benthic lander contains a programmable sediment trap which can take 12 monthly samples, plus instruments to record temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, and bottom...

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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: 2012-05-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

This expedition on the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster used the recently-developed National Undersea Research Center for the North Atlantic and Great Lakes (NURC-NAGL) ROV Proteus to investigate deep coral...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2006-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

Mapping the coral reefs has been identified as one of the first and most important steps needed to address the increasing decline of the world's coral reefs. Either photography or direct...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2019-10-21T00:00:00.000+00:00

The NF-19-09 expedition on board the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster was part of the multi-year Deep SEARCH project. This cruise occurred from October 21 to October 30, 2019. The cruise will focus on...

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• Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
• Updated: 2007-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00

The New Zealand American Ring of Fire 2007 expedition has been an outstanding success for all partners. The automous benthic explorer (ABE) team leader, Dana Yoerger, showed us the final map of...

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

In 2008, the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary (MNMS) commenced a multiyear project focusing on shipwreck sites associated with the Battle of the Atlantic. During WWII, this was the closest...