Datasets
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Okeanos Explorer (EX1002): Legs 1 through 3 ROV Focus
This cruise covers the integration of the IFE ROV Little Hercules and OER camera platform into the EX, as well as subsequent shakedown and field trial cruises associated with... -
Deepwater Canyons 2013: Pathways to the Abyss
Leg I focused on biological objectives in Norfolk Canyon, with some sampling in Baltimore Canyon. Leg II focused on archaeological targets in and around the Norfolk Canyon area,... -
EX2104: 2021 North Atlantic Stepping Stones: New England and Corner Rise Seamounts (ROV and Mapping)
The 2021 North Atlantic Stepping Stones: New England and Corner Rise Seamounts expedition (EX-21-04) was a combined mapping and remotely operated vehicle (ROV) expedition to the... -
Okeanos Explorer (EX0903): Mapping Field Trial I Mendocino Ridge
The exhaustive study of the U.S. data holdings pertinent to the formulation of U.S. potential claims of an extended continental shelf under the United Nations Convention of the... -
Exploring the Submerged New World on R/V Weatherbird II between 20110808 and 20110818
Underwater archaeologists, led by James Adovasio and Andy Hemmings of Mercyhurst College, dove at four sites that were first visited in 2009. At these locations, electronically... -
Peleliu's Forgotten WWII Battlefield
The science team revisited or located 100 sites that represent both WWII specific remains and modern debris (Appendix 3.1). The terrestrial survey inshore of the invasion... -
Okeanos Explorer (EX1802): Emerging Technology Demonstration and Mapping
Operations will include the use of the ship's deep water mapping systems (Kongsberg EM302 multibeam sonar, EK60 split-beam fisheries sonars, Knudsen 3260 chirp sub-bottom... -
Bermuda: Search for Deep Water Caves 2009 on the R/V Endurance between 20090905 and 20090930
Deep-water marine caves are one of the Earth's last largely unexplored frontiers of undiscovered fauna (animal life). More than 150 limestone caves are known to exist in or near... -
Okeanos Explorer (EX1711): Gulf of Mexico (ROV and Mapping)
Operations will include the use of the ship's deep water mapping systems (Kongsberg EM302 multibeam sonar, EK60 split-beam fisheries sonars, Knudsen 3260 chirp sub-bottom... -
Investigations of Chemosynthetic Communities on the Lower Continental Slope of the Gulf of Mexico 2006
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... -
New Zealand American Submarine Ring of Fire 2005
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... -
EX2201: Mapping & ROV Shakedown
From February 23 - March 3, 2022 (Pascagoula, MS to Key West, FL), NOAA Ocean Exploration conducted a shakedown of the remotely operated vehicle (ROV), video, telepresence, and... -
PacificReefs2011: Ocean Exploration and Biotechnology on the Reefs of Palau between 20110219 and 20110304
This expedition represents the culmination of ongoing collaboration between National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology- Ocean Biotechnology Center and Repository and... -
EX2102: 2021 Technology Demonstration (AUV & Mapping)
From May 14-27, 2021, NOAA Ocean Exploration led the 2021 Technology Demonstration on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to Norfolk, Virginia. The... -
EX2204: Voyage to the Ridge 1 (Mapping)
From May 14 - June 7, 2022 (Newport, Rhode Island to St. John's, Newfoundland), NOAA Ocean Exploration conducted mapping operations on the Charlie Gibbs Fracture Zone, aiding in... -
Okeanos Explorer (EX1404L2): Our Deepwater Backyard: Exploring the Atlantic Canyons and Seamounts
High resolution mapping data from vessel multibeam and submersible sonar systems; singlebeam and sub-bottom profile data; periodic CTD casts; submersible CTD data; underwater... -
Aegean and Black Sea 2006
From April to June 2006, scientists from the University of Rhode Island led an expedition to study the archaeology and geology of the Aegean and Black Seas aboard two research... -
Okeanos Explorer (EX1902): 2019 Field Season Shakedown
Data from three ROV engineering dives, EM302 multibeam sonar data including backscatter, EK60 and EK80 sonar data. -
Florida Shelf Edge Expedition (FLoSEE) 2010
Three months after the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, and before extensive oil impacts reach shelf-edge reefs in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, NOAA's Cooperative Institute for...