AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
EX1102: ROV and Camera Sled Integration and Shakedown							on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer between April 4 and April 28

This project will involve two legs - EX1102L1 and EX1102L2. The
					first, between April 4-18, 2011, will involve the dockside integration of the
					new OER camera platform into Okeanos Explorer systems and ROV control room. The
					second, between April 19-28, 2011, will be the subsequent shakedown cruise
					associated with performance and operation of this tandem system using the
					Institute for Exploration (IFE) Little Hercules ROV as the main
					vehicle.

Tags: camera sled, channel islands, channel islands national marine sanctuary, deep-sea exploration, deep-water, expedition, exploration, exploration vessel, explorer, hancock seamount, high-definition underwater video, little hercules, mapping survey, marine education, multibeam, multibeam backscatter, multibeam sonar, noaa, noaa fleet, north pacific, ocean, ocean discovery, ocean education, ocean exploration, ocean exploration and research, ocean literacy, ocean research, oer, okeanos, okeanos explorer, r337, remotely operated vehicle, rov, san diego, san juan seamount, san miguel island, santa cruz canyon, science, scientific computing system, scientific mission, scientific research, scs, sea, seirios, single beam sonar, single-beam sonar, singlebeam sonar, stewardship, sub-bottom profile, systematic exploration, technology, telepresence, transformational research, u.s. west coast, undersea, underwater, underwater video, water column backscatter, west coast sanctuary
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Okeanos Explorer (EX1403): East Coast Mapping and							Exploration

Multibeam, single beam, and subbottom sonar data will be
					collected 24 hours a day. XBT casts will be conducted regularly for multibeam
					calibration. The ship's Scientific Computing System (SCS) will monitor and
					collect oceanographic, navigation, and meteorological data throughout the
					cruise.

Tags: archaeological, archaeology, blake plateau cape hatteras, conservation, conserve, crm, cultural resource management, deep-sea exploration, expedition, exploration, exploration vessel, explorer, high-definition underwater video, historic, mapping survey, marine archaeology, marine education, maritime, maritime archaeology, multibeam, multibeam backscatter, multibeam sonar, nautical, nautical archaeology, noaa, noaa fleet, northeast fisheries science center marine protected areas bluefin tuna, ocean, ocean discovery, ocean education, ocean exploration, ocean exploration and research, ocean literacy, ocean research, oer, okeanos, okeanos explorer, preserve, protect, protection, r337, science, scientific computing system, scientific mission, scientific research, scs, sea, single beam sonar, single-beam sonar, singlebeam sonar, stewardship, sub-bottom profile, submerged cultural heritage, submerged cultural resource, systematic exploration, technology, telepresence, transformational research, uch, undersea, underwater, underwater cultural heritage, underwater video, water column backscatter
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Mountains in the Sea - Exploring the New England							Seamount Chain on RV Atlantis in North Atlantic Ocean between 20030711							and 20030719

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 Alvin to explore three volcanic
					seamounts in the New England Seamount chain (Bear, Kelvin, and Manning
					seamounts). This diverse group of explorers included a scientific complement of
					ichthyologists, geneticists, reproductive biologists, oceanographers, and a
					hydrographer, along with educators, program managers, two journalists, several
					graduate students, and even a scientific illustrator. Because of their
					isolation, seamounts act as an oasis in an otherwise barren landscape, and are
					known to harbor species found nowhere else. Since most seamounts in the New
					England chain have never been explored scientifically, there was great potential
					for new discoveries during this expedition.

Tags: acoustic scattering, bathymetry, bathymetry/seafloor topography, biodiversity, colonization, conductivity, coral colonization dynamics, coral reproduction, corals, ctd, depth, echo sounders, expedition, expendable bathythermograph, exploration, explorer, genetics, marine education, mbes, multibeam, multibeam mapping system, noaa, north atlantic ocean, ocean, ocean acoustics, ocean discovery, ocean education, ocean exploration, ocean exploration and research, ocean literacy, ocean research, oceans, octocorals, oer, reproduction, research, science, scientific mission, scientific research, sea, seamounts, stewardship, systematic exploration, technology, temperature, transformational research, trawling, undersea, underwater, underwater exploration, xbt
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
EX1104: Mid-Cayman Rise Exploration on NOAA Ship							Okeanos Explorer between 20110802 and 20110818

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 the project operating area in
					British national waters in the vicinity of the Cayman Islands identified as the
					Mid-Cayman Rise, and will transit to Key West, Florida. Underway data will be
					collected during transit through all coastal states (with permits) with the
					exception of Columbia and Cuba. Primary mapping, CTD and ROV operations will be
					conducted in Cayman Island waters under British jurisdiction.

Tags: bathymetry, bathymetry/seafloor topography, camera sled, caribbean sea, cayman islands, cayman trough, conductivity, ctd, deep ocean, deep sea, deep water, deep-sea exploration, depth, europa, expedition, expendable bathythermograph, exploration, exploration vessel, explorer, fracture zone, gas chromatograph, gas chromatograph/mass spectrometry, gc-ms, gulf of mexico, high-definition underwater video, hydrothermal field, hydrothermal site, little hercules, mapping survey, marine education, mbes, methane, mid-cayman rise, mt. dent, multibeam, multibeam backscatter, multibeam mapping system, multibeam sonar, noaa, noaa fleet, ocean, ocean discovery, ocean education, ocean exploration, ocean exploration and research, ocean literacy, ocean research, oceanic core complexes, oceans, oer, okeanos, okeanos explorer, panama canal, r337, remotely operated vehicle, rov, science, scientific computing system, scientific mission, scientific research, scs, sea, seamounts, seirios, single beam sonar, single-beam sonar, singlebeam sonar, stewardship, sub-bottom profile, systematic exploration, technology, telepresence, temperature, transformational research, undersea, underwater, underwater video, van damm, video camera, water column backscatter, water sampling, xbt
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
EX1203: Florida Escarpment and Straits Exploration on							NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer between 20120505 and							20120523

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 planned. The EM302 produces
					bathymetric, bottom backscatter, and water column backscatter data, At two
					targeted survey sites, the EM302, the Knudsen CHIRP 3260 sub-bottom profiler,
					and the Simrad EK60 single beam sonar sensor will be employed.

Tags: acoustic scattering, atlantic continental shelf break, bathymetry, bathymetry/seafloor topography, benthic habitats, blake ridge, bottom backscatter, bureau of ocean energy management, canyons transit line, cape fear, conductivity, ctd, deep-sea exploration, depth, diapir complex, echo sounders, expedition, expendable bathythermograph, exploration, exploration vessel, explorer, florida escarpment, florida strait, galveston, high-definition underwater video, mapping survey, marine education, mbes, mississippi canyon, multibeam, multibeam backscatter, multibeam mapping system, multibeam sonar, national marine sanctuaries, noaa, noaa fleet, norfolk, ocean, ocean acoustics, ocean discovery, ocean education, ocean exploration, ocean exploration and research, ocean literacy, ocean research, oceans, oer, okeanos, okeanos explorer, r337, science, scientific computing system, scientific mission, scientific research, scs, sea, single beam sonar, single-beam sonar, singlebeam sonar, stewardship, sub-bottom profile, systematic exploration, technology, telepresence, temperature, transformational research, undersea, underwater, underwater video, water column backscatter, xbt
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Profiling Sensor to Map N2 Gas Production in OMZs - EX1709

Oxygen Minimum Zones (OMZs) play important roles in regulating the ocean's global carbon and nitrogen cycles. In these functionally anoxic waters, denitrifying and anammox microbes remove nitrogenous nutrients from the biosphere by transformation to biologically unavailable nitrogen gas (N2). For this project, scientists developed a new in situ profiling sensor to detect this 'excess' N2 in OMZ regions in order to quantify these N-loss processes. The new sensor incorporated recent but reliable and proven technical advances in membrane and pressure sensor technologies, and therefore its development was relatively low risk. Compared to existing, slow response sensors, the new sensor had low production cost and could easily be added to any ship's rosette CTD. Scientists' near-term goal was to demonstrate the sensor on two NOAA research vessels and begin to collect high-quality excess N2 data in OMZs to document baseline excess N2 inventories. Their long-term goal was to determine if excess N2 inventories in OMZs are increasing as a result of ocean deoxygenation. It was expected that the new sensor can be easily adapted for use on other profiling platforms (autonomous underwater vehicles, remotely operated vehicles, winched profilers, etc.) and be used more widely to study air-sea gas flux and net community metabolism. Funding for this project was provided by NOAA Ocean Exploration via its Ocean Exploration Fiscal Year 2016 Funding Opportunity.

Tags: aquatic sciences, ctd, doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei, doc/noaa/oar/oer, earth science, expedition, exploration, explorer, gtd, hawaii, honolulu, marine education, marine environment monitoring, national centers for environmental information, nesdis, noaa, noaa ship okeanos explorer, north pacific ocean, ocean, ocean discovery, ocean education, ocean exploration, ocean exploration and research, ocean literacy, ocean research, oceanic & atmospheric research, oceans, oer, office of ocean exploration and research, panama, panama city, science, scientific mission, scientific research, sea, stewardship, systematic exploration, technology, transformational research, u.s. department of commerce, undersea, underwater
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
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 seamounts of the Northwest Atlantic that took place between June 30 and July 29, 2021. Operations during this 30-day at sea expedition included a combination of ROV dives in support of NOAA Ocean Exploration and its partner priorities as well as exploratory mapping operations targeting areas containing no or poor quality modern mapping data. The initial focus was on the U.S. Northeast Seamount and high seas areas, however, during the expedition weather altered the planned transect to outside Bermudan waters where three dives took place before rejoining the planned dive sites exploring a total of 19 seamounts and one canyon (Hydrographer) for water column exploration. During the expedition, 20 Deep Discoverer ROV dives were conducted from 300 m to 4187 m water depth for a total of 154 hours of bottom time, and surveyed using EM 304 multibeam sonar 54,710 square km over 30 days at sea. All data associated with this expedition have been archived and are publicly available through the NOAA Archives.

Tags: acoustic sounders, conductivity, ctd, deep discoverer rov, depth, doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei, doc/noaa/oar/oer, earth science, expendable bathythermographs, national centers for environmental information, nesdis, noaa, noaa ship okeanos explorer, north atlantic ocean, oceanic & atmospheric research, oceans, office of exploration and research, seirios camera sled, temperature, u.s. department of commerce, xbt
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Exploring Hydrothermal System Response to Magma Supply and Crustal Thickness Gradients Along							the Galapagos Spreading Center 2005

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, which is part of the global mid-ocean ridge. The global mid-ocean ridge is a giant volcanic seam where oceanic plates repeatedly rip apart and erupt lava to form new seafloor, in a process known as "seafloor spreading." Nearly one-fifth of the "spreading centers" comprising the mid-ocean ridge lie directly above or very near "hotspots" in the Earth's mantle. At oceanic hotspots, melting plumes of hot rock rise from deep in the Earth's mantle and erupt lava at the seafloor to form seamounts and volcanic islands. The portion of the Galapagos Spreading Center where our surveys took place was completely unexplored for hydrothermal vents and other fine-scale seafloor features. Using towed near-bottom sonars, hydrothermal plume sensors, and cameras, we sought to uncover hydrothermal, geological and biological responses to magma supply and crustal thickness along our survey region.

Tags: benthic communities, brine, earth science, expedition, exploration, explorer, galapagos islands, galapagos spreading center, gas, jason, mapping, marine education, noaa, northeast south pacific, ocean, ocean discovery, ocean education, ocean exploration, ocean exploration and research, ocean literacy, ocean research, oceans, oil, photographic survey, rov, rov jason, science, scientific research, sea, sediment, seismic, south pacific ocean, stewardship, substrate, systematic exploration, technology, transformational research, tubeworm, undersea, underwater
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Okeanos Explorer (EX1504L4): Campaign to Address							Pacific monument Science, Technology, and Ocean NEeds (CAPSTONE) Leg							IV

The ship will conduct 24 hour operations consisting of daytime
					ROV dives and evening/nighttime mapping operations including during transit.
					During this cruise we will conduct 8 hour ROV dives on most days with occasional
					10 or 12 hour dives on particularly interesting or deep dive sites. ROV
					operations will focus in depths between 250 and 6,000 meters and will include
					high-resolution visual surveys and limited sample collection. Mapping operations
					will be conducted in 250m of water and deeper, and include transit and overnight
					multibeam, water column backscatter, and sub-bottom data collection.
					Opportunistic CTD rosette operations may be requested to collect more
					information about the environmental parameters at ROV dives sites, or
					opportunistically at selected sites where collecting the data is considered
					important to understanding the physical or chemical properties of the overlying
					water column. ROV and mapping operations will not be conducted in state waters.
					CTD rosette operations may be requested in state waters.

Tags: davisville rhode island, deep-sea corals, expedition exploration explorer marine education noaa ocean ocean discovery ocean education ocean ex, hawaii, papahänaumokuäkea marine national monument johnston atoll pacific remote islands national marine m, prime crust zone capstone hohonu moana deep sea corals pacific islands regional initiative rift zone, sampling operations, seamounts, submersibles, telepresence
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Mapping the Uncharted Diversity of Arctic Marine							Microbes

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 protein sequences, and gene and
					protein annotations. The data will be shared as soon as it passes
					quality-control checks but no later than 2 years within the receipt of raw DNA
					sequence reads.

Tags: alaska amundsen gulf arctic ocean barrow beaufort sea cambridge bay canada chukchi sea daneborg gree, archaeal communities bacterial communities bioinformatics dna sequencint eukaryotic communities gene, arctic, biodiversity, expedition exploration explorer marine education noaa ocean ocean discovery ocean education ocean ex, microbiology
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
Okeanos Explorer (EX1006): Hawaii to San Francisco Transit to Drydock

The Okeanos Explorer (EX) will transit from Honolulu, HI to San Francisco for the winter inport and drydock period. During the transit, the EX will perform 24-hour multibeam survey, deploy XBT casts every six hours, and test a sub-bottom profiling instrument. A two-part project, CAMEO: Trans-Pacific Plankton Comparison 2010, through Survey of Opportunity Requests has been accepted to be performed during the transit. For the first part, the EX will tow a Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) to collect phytoplankton and zooplankton samples across a long transect to describe species composition and evaluate diversity gradients, and to estimate species occurrence at the surface. For the second part, the science team will deploy a Manta net and scoop a bucket (for tiny particles) approximately four times a day to sample the surface layer for marine debris typically seen in this area of the Pacific for enumeration and chemical analyses.

Tags: continuous plankton recorder, expedition, exploration, explorer, hawaii, marine education, noaa, noaa fleet, north pacific ocean, ocean, ocean discovery, ocean education, ocean exploration, ocean exploration and research, ocean literacy, ocean research, okeanos, okeanos explorer, pacific garbage patch, phytoplankton, r337, san francisco, science, scientific computing system, scientific mission, scientific research, scs, sea, stewardship, systematic exploration, technology, trans-pacific plankton comparison, transfomational research, undersea, underwater, zooplankton
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
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 performance and operation of this tandem system. Activities will occur sequentially as described.

Tags: expedition, exploration, explorer, hawaiian islands, marine education, noaa, noaa fleet, north pacific ocean, ocean, ocean discovery, ocean education, ocean exploration, ocean exploration and research, ocean literacy, ocean research, okeanos, okeanos explorer, r337, science, scientific computing system, scientific mission, scientific research, scs, sea, stewardship, systematic exploration, technology, transfomational research, undersea, underwater
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
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, with some emphasis on biological objectives
					to expand upon data collected during last years cruise. 24-hour operations
					included 12-16 hour remotely operated vehicle (ROV) dives which took digital
					images and high definition video of the seafloor and collect water, sediment,
					and different types of fauna for research objectives during the day. Night
					operations included non-ROV sampling, including box coring, bottom trawling,
					recovery of benthic landers, multibeam mapping, collection of water column
					environmental data, and water sampling (using a CTD instrument with niskin
					bottle rosette). Data expected: Scientific Computing System (SCS) data, ROV
					sensor data, Underwater video/framegrab images, sampling logs/analyses, CTD
					data, summary reports

Tags: archaeological, archaeology, atlantic deepwater canyons boxcore coral communities deep sea sediment jason methane cold seep mid-a, conservation, conserve, crm, cultural resource management, expedition, exploration, explorer, historic, marine archaeology, marine education, maritime, maritime archaeology, middle atlantic canyons baltimore canyon norfolk canyon, nautical, nautical archaeology, noaa, ocean, ocean discovery, ocean education, ocean exploration, ocean exploration and research, ocean literacy, ocean research, oer, preserve, protect, protection, science, scientific mission, scientific research, sea, stewardship, submerged cultural heritage, submerged cultural resource, systematic exploration, technology, transformational research, uch, undersea, underwater, underwater cultural heritage
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce
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 seamounts of the Northwest Atlantic that took place between June 30 and July 29, 2021. Operations during this 30-day at sea expedition included a combination of ROV dives in support of NOAA Ocean Exploration and its partner priorities as well as exploratory mapping operations targeting areas containing no or poor quality modern mapping data. The initial focus was on the U.S. Northeast Seamount and high seas areas, however, during the expedition weather altered the planned transect to outside Bermudan waters where three dives took place before rejoining the planned dive sites exploring a total of 19 seamounts and one canyon (Hydrographer) for water column exploration. During the expedition, 20 Deep Discoverer ROV dives were conducted from 300 m to 4187 m water depth for a total of 154 hours of bottom time, and surveyed using EM 304 multibeam sonar 54,710 square km over 30 days at sea. All data associated with this expedition have been archived and are publicly available through the NOAA Archives.

Tags: deep discoverer rov, doc/noaa/nesdis/ncei, doc/noaa/oar/oer, earth science, event logs, highlights, images, national centers for environmental information, nesdis, noaa, noaa ship okeanos explorer, north atlantic ocean, oceanic & atmospheric research, oceans, office of exploration and research, samples, seirios camera sled, u.s. department of commerce, underwater video camera, video camera, visual observations
Organization: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce