The workshop was instructed by Isabel (Bel) Halatuituia, Education Coordinator at National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa, Suraida Nañez-James, NOAA Ocean Exploration workshop facilitator, and ...

From August 19 to 20, 2026, 40 educators from across American Samoa gathered at the Tauese P.F. Sunia Ocean Center for a two-day professional development workshop focused on deep-sea science and ...

“Headless chicken monster” is a common name for deep ocean sea cucumbers in the genus Enypniastes. Their flowing movements have also earned them the more elegant nickname “Spanish dancers.” The ocean ...

Not all corals live in warm water – in fact, over half of all known coral species are found in cold, deep, and dark waters. When most people think about corals, they usually imagine a sunny tropical ...

The trackline and area of operations for the 2026 Pacific Islands Mapping expedition (EX2604). The inset depicts a close-up of the area around Jarvis Island where extensive bathymetric mapping data ...

On the final day of the 2026 Mapping Shakedown expedition, the expedition team retrieved the remotely operated vehicles (ROV) from the University of Hawai‘i Marine Center in Honolulu Harbor, where ...

Develop state-of-the-art machine learning methods for detection of shipwreck sites from multibeam sonar data collected from surface vessels ...

From October 5 – 26, 2019 the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER) and NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer will conduct a telepresence-enabled ocean exploration mapping cruise from North ...

Covering approximately 70% of Earth’s surface, the ocean is the dominant feature on our planet. Yet, what lies at depth, well beneath the ocean’s glimmering surface, remains largely a mystery. Less ...

Teachers model and observe deep, cold-water currents around a seamount as part of the Student Investigation: Seamounts and Biological Productivity.

During Dive 02 of the 2026 American Samoa ROV + Mapping Exploration expedition, the team encountered a variety of marine life, including a crinoid, a white flatworm, and a dandelion siphonophore. The ...

Multibeam sonar is a type of active sonar system used to map the seafloor and detect objects in the water column or along the seafloor. The multiple physical sensors of the sonar – called a transducer ...