ALT Ocean DNA Explorer homepage with a welcome message, underwater fish image, navigation menu, action buttons, and data statistics.

ALT A man sits in front of a row of computer monitors, smiling for the camera.

ALT Top left: 2 teachers sit at a table and work on an activity involving a black box and colorful pencils. Top right: A multicolored image of undersea mountains. Bottom left: An image of remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer being raised from the water. Bottom right: Two teachers sit at a table. One uses a syringe for a workshop activity.

ALT A view of the blue ocean from the fantail of a ship.

ALT Top image: purple octopus; bottom image: dumbo octopus swimming

ALT Top image: orange octopus; bottom image: gold octopus

ALT Top image: Close look at an octopus; bottom image: flapjack octopus

ALT Top image: octopus coming out of a hole; bottom image: swimming octopus

ALT Three women stand in front of a banner for the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa. 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 Maggie Augafa, Program Director for Division of Curriculum and Instruction of the American Samoa Department of Education. Image courtesy of Patricia (Loa) Penitito.

ALT Four people smile and pose for the camera behind a table. Teachers model and observe deep, cold-water currents around a seamount as part of the Student Investigation: Seamounts and Biological Productivity. Image courtesy of Patricia (Loa) Penitito.

ALT Two women wearing flotation devices stand at the edge of a white railing on a ship; one reaches into a basket holding three cylindrical devices and also appears to be taking a small cap from the other woman. Before them is a boxy object partially covered with a tarp mounted on the railing. Behind them is the ocean and puffy clouds.

ALT In the top row, two maps, one captioned “satellite-derived” and the other captioned “multibeam sonar” show red lines denoting mapping tracks weaving back and forth over a diagonal band. On the left, one seamount is shown from above in the satellite-derived imagery, but in the multibeam imagery on the right, there are two seamounts side-by-side. Below the maps, a 3D rendering shows two underwater seamounts, with flattened tops. A color scale denotes depth.

ALT A group of about 20 smiling women pose for a photo on the bow of a ship at sea on a cloudy day.

ALT A view off the port side of a ship at sea. One of the ship's small orange boats hangs in the foreground.

ALT A double rainbow at sea.

ALT October calendar featuring a batfish on a sandy seafloor. The NOAA Ocean Exploration logo is in the lower left corner.

ALT A flyer advertising the webinar “Highlights from Nancy Foster 2022: Illuminating Deep Waters off Puerto Rico.” The flyer notes that the event will feature Andrea Quattrini, the expedition’s Chief Scientist and Curator of Corals at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The flyer features several pictures of Dr. Quattrini on the expedition.

ALT Top left: 2 teachers sit at a table and work on an activity involving a black box and colorful pencils. Top right: A multicolored image of undersea mountains. Bottom left: An image of remotely operated vehicle Deep Discoverer being raised from the water. Bottom right: Two teachers sit at a table. One uses a syringe for a workshop activity.

ALT A map of the Pacific Ocean. A yellow line is drawn between Suva, Fiji, and Honolulu, Hawai'i.

ALT A 3x3 grid shows an assortment of photos of deep-sea organisms in hues of red, yellow, pink, and orange.

ALT Eight people in hard hats and gloves pose with sampling equipment on the deck of a research vessel at sea.

ALT A tan dead sponge stalk sits on a rocky seafloor, surrounded by pinkish brittle stars.

ALT A close-up view of robotic equipment positioned over a sandy, rocky surface. On the left is a white cylindrical component secured with metal bands and topped with a bright pink-red section labeled “#2.” At center-right, a dark metallic articulated mechanism with joints, bolts, and a small green indicator light extends downward to a cable or tether. A tan cylindrical tube or instrument occupies the lower center, while dark structural supports frame both sides of the image. The ground is covered with fine tan dust and numerous irregular dark rocks.

ALT A close-up view shows several small, pale, translucent aquatic organisms attached at intervals to a thin, vertical brown strand near the center of the image. Each organism has a rounded or elongated white body with fine, hairlike appendages extending outward; some also show darker internal markings. The strand runs from the top to the bottom of the frame. The background is softly blurred in muted green and olive tones, with scattered dark, rounded shapes suggesting vegetation or objects beneath the water’s surface.