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The federal government recently announced the release of strategies and recommendations to fully map, explore, and characterize the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

Sea stars play an important role in deep-sea ecosystems, especially as predators of sponges and corals (mostly octocorals).

The NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, through the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP), has awarded a three-year grant to the University of New Hampshire, Saildrone, Inc. of Alameda, California, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to develop ocean exploration applications for a new unmanned wind-powered sailboat-like vehicle capable of long-duration missions to collect vital ocean mapping information.

As part of the Fiscal Year 2018 Federal Funding Opportunity, the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research selected 10 projects to receive financial support. The supported projects are described below.

In one of the largest U.S. exploration efforts ever conducted, NOAA and partners organized and implemented a three-year, Pacific-wide field campaign entitled CAPSTONE: Campaign to Address Pacific monument Science, Technology, and Ocean NEeds.

Happy World Oceans Day! This year, we’re joining our friends at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Earth Observatory, Schmidt Ocean Institute, and Ocean Exploration Trust in taking a look at the connections between our ocean on Earth as well as oceans elsewhere in our solar system.

On May 10th, 2019, the Bureau of Ocean Management launched its publicly accessible Virtual Archaeology Museum. The platform showcases interactive 3D models of shipwrecks created using imagery collected during OER-led missions on the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer.

NOAA has selected the University of Rhode Island to host NOAA’s new Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI), in partnership with the University of New Hampshire, the University of Southern Mississippi, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and the not-for-profit Ocean Exploration Trust.

As part of the Fiscal Year 2018 Federal Funding Opportunity, the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research selected 10 projects to receive financial support. The supported projects are described below.