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ALT During the 2025 Deep-sea Habitats of the Cook Islands expedition on Exploration Vessel Nautilus the team surveyed various seascapes to better understand seabed environments, and natural and mineral resources in the region, In this image, polymetallic nodules rest on sediment accumulated in a depres
ALT Interdisciplinary and Community Inclusive Approaches to Submerged WWII Heritage Research in the Pacific. Dr. Jennifer McKinnon, East Carolina University, Program in Maritime Studies, and Dr. Erin Field, East Carolina University, Department of Biology.
ALT A close-up image of the “golden orb” in the lab of the Smithsonian Institution. Following collection, the orb sample was officially accessioned as part of the Invertebrate Zoology Collection at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. (Credit: NOAA FIsheries)
ALT ShipwreckFinder: A QGIS Tool for Shipwreck Detection in Multibeam Sonar Data. Dr. Katie Skinner, Assistant Professor of Robotics at the University of Michigan. Anja Sheppard, PhD Candidate in Robotics at the University of Michigan.
ALT promotional graphic that reads “Gulf Restoration Live! The Secret Lives of Deep Sea Corals”
ALT A close up of the outstretched tentacles of an orange anemone with small yellow amphipods swimming among them, observed during Dive 17 of the Seascape Alaska 5 expedition. Image courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration, Seascape Alaska.
