NOAA Ocean Exploration

This month, during an expedition aboard Ocean Exploration Trust's Exploration Vessel Nautilus near American Samoa, researchers are testing a new, autonomous approach to locating seafloor fluid flow sites, like hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. Ultimately, this project has the potential to improve our knowledge about seafloor vents and seeps and the marine life they support. Learn more about the project: https://lnkd.in/e8FUvFwC [Image shows a schematic of autonomous plume tracing and source localization. A simplified autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) survey locates the depth of the nonbuoyant plume, maps its lateral extent, and autonomously implements a detailed deeper search that intercepts buoyant plume stems to locate vent sources. Inset: Sentry AUV.?Credit: Natalie Renier, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.] #ocean #exploration #technology #hydrothermalvents

Did you know that 90% of our ocean is considered “deep,” with depths greater than 200 meters (656 feet)? Yet the majority of these waters remain unseen by human eyes. While this remote realm remains largely removed from the everyday human experience, it is nonetheless intertwined with our marine resources and ways of life, with vast cultural significance. On September 10-11, please join us to paint, draw, learn about, and explore the deep ocean with a FREE event from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Mokupāpapa Discovery Center (76 Kamehameha Ave, Hilo, HI / 808-498-4709). During the event, visitors will have the opportunity to take a drawing or painting class from local artist Patrick Ching, participate in ocean-themed activities like coloring, meet and talk with ocean explorers, and see videos and other highlights from deep-ocean exploration in the monument. For more information, visit: https://lnkd.in/evk9mKJb. [Video featuring footage collected from Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Sanctuary in 2016.] #ocean #exploration #Hilo #freeevent #art #science #learn #explore

NOAA Ocean Exploration selected four projects for financial support through its Ocean Exploration Fiscal Year 2024 Funding Opportunity. Totaling over $2.1 million, these projects will explore the mesophotic coral ecosystems off the western coast of Puerto Rico, study the biodiversity of deep-pelagic crustaceans from the waters off Southern California, explore and document a collection of nationally significant shipwrecks in the deep waters of Lake Michigan’s Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary, and more. Learn about the projects here: https://lnkd.in/erHKrXiK [Image: One of the projects being funded includes exploring and documenting shipwrecks like Canal schooner Walter B. Allen, seen here in Lake Michigan. Image courtesy of Becky Kagan Schott.] #ocean #exploration #funding #science #technology

Tomorrow, September 4, at 12 pm?AKDT,?the Sealaska Heritage Institute is hosting a (free!) virtual lecture on submerged archaeology and the role of Indigenous knowledge and advanced robotic technology in exploring Southeast Alaska’s submerged caves and rock shelters. Watch live:?https://lnkd.in/diqrVAT6 Learn more about?the project:?https://lnkd.in/dS-HT-8Q [Image:?Cave diver Tamara Adame collects sediment samples beneath an overhang in southeast Alaska during 2023 field work for the Our Submerged Past project while autonomous underwater vehicle Sunfish Inc documents the sampling process and creates a 3D map of the sample site.?Image courtesy of Jason Gulley.] #ocean #exploration #archaeology #Alaska #technology #freewebinar

There's just under a month left to apply for Ocean Odyssey education grants! Teachers and other education professionals can learn more and register for this Thursday's informational webinar here: https://lnkd.in/e7PhPGK3 Provided by the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation and NOAA Ocean Exploration, Ocean Odyssey Grants support projects that provide ocean-focused STEM education and/or early career development opportunities for middle school, high school, or college-aged youth from historically marginalized communities. This year's application deadline is September 30, 2024. For application tips and great examples of past projects, make sure to browse our Ocean Odyssey Grants FAQ here: https://lnkd.in/d4B336Aw

Meet Dr. Aurora Elmore and learn about the Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (#OECI). #nautiluslive #oceanexploration #oceanscience #oceantechnology #marinerechnology #Mesobot #DriX #DAPLander NOAA Ocean Exploration Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution URI Graduate School of Oceanography University of Rhode Island University of New Hampshire Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping / NOAA-UNH Joint Hydrographic Center The University of Southern Mississippi

Survey technicians Cassandra Dahl and Sophie Caradine-Taber prepare to conduct XBT casts during the current Beyond the Blue: Johnston Atoll Mapping 1 expedition on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer! XBTs, or expendable bathythermographs, are small torpedo-shaped probes used to collect ocean temperature data, which is in turn used to generate?a temperature profile. Scientists then use software that combines temperature profiles from an XBT with surface salinity data to determine an overall sound speed profile. The sound speed values can then be applied to multibeam soundings in real time for an accurate measure of bathymetry. Learn more about XBTs here:?https://lnkd.in/e8wX_d5C Images courtesy of Art Howard, Global Foundation for Ocean Exploration. #ocean #exploration #technology #XBT #science #mapping

Don’t be crabby just beclaws summer’s almost over. Shellebrate the changing of the seasons with this spiky king crab. Download this clawesome wallpaper calendar to your desktop today: https://lnkd.in/eiZxrKRE #ocean #exploration #September #crab #wallpaper #puns

Hilo-based friends: On September 10 and 11, join us for a FREE event at the Mokupāpapa Discovery Center (76 Kamehameha Ave / 808-498-4709) focused on understanding our connections with the deep ocean. As part of the event, local artist Patrick Ching will be hosting (free) classes! In the morning (approximately 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.), all are welcome to learn how to draw deep-sea animals through a series of short courses. And in the afternoon (starting at approximately 12 p.m. to 3 p.m.), pre-register for a class to paint your favorite ocean critters. To register for a painting class, visit: https://lnkd.in/dwAY6Wz2 For more information on the whole event, visit: https://lnkd.in/evk9mKJb #ocean #exploration #event #Hilo #learn #art #draw #paint #learn [With NOAA Ocean Exploration and NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries]

Sponge. While the term may conjure up images of a bathroom loofah or the plastic, yellow rectangle next to your kitchen sink, sponges are in fact important animals in the deep ocean. They are ancient, complex, bizarre, and beautiful. As proof, here are a few different sponges seen during our exploration of deep waters near?Hawai?i. Learn more about sponges and why they are so important:?https://lnkd.in/de8VdiYt #ocean #exploration #marinelife #sponge #learn