By the Numbers

Okeanos Explorer

  • 108,300 square kilometers mapped with multibeam sonar (greater than the combined size of Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, and Rhode Island).
  • 300+ potential cold water seeps mapped in Gulf of Mexico.
  • 15 seamounts completely or partially mapped.
  • 2 World War II wrecks mapped.
  • 32 ROV dives at sites including 9 submarine canyons, 5 seamounts, 3 19th-century wrecks and 2 cold seeps.
  • 4,689 meters—deepest Deep Discoverer ROV dive in FY14.
  • 8 expeditions.
  • 6 conductivity, temperature and depth/CTD casts.
  • 679 expendable bathythermographs/XBTs deployed.
  • 5 NOAA line/staff offices involved in expeditions.
  • 60+ institutions participated in expeditions.
  • 126 scientists and students participated in expeditions.
  • 15 mapping explorers-in-training positions granted.
  • 2,100 visitors received, including 18 private tours, during the September Baltimore port-call.

Ocean Sampling Day — June 21, 2014

  • 13 U.S. sites sampled as part of the 185 global sites sampled.
  • 2 educational webpage offerings developed for two NOAA line offices.

Data Management

  • 68.7 terabytes of OER data distributed to the public from NOAA data centers.
  • 45-day average for post-mission data from Okeanos Explorer to NOAA data centers, with a record of 33 days.
  • 1,168 publications produced with OER support since 2001; 46 in 2014.

Outreach

  • A record 10.7 million visits to the NOAA Ocean Explorer website.
  • More than 680,000 visits to live video web pages.
  • More than 600 new html pages, 500 new images and 60 new videos added to the website.
  • More than 47,600 Twitter followers.
  • More than 15,500 Facebook likes.
  • More than 6,100 YouTube subscribers, with posted videos watched more than 475,000 times during the year (lifetime views + 4.7 million).

Ocean Exploration Trust’s E/V Nautilus

  • 33,119 square kilometers of seafloor mapped (equivalent to 10.5 Rhode Islands).
  • 822+ hours of ROV time.
  • 602 biological and geological samples taken.
  • 111 Scientists Ashore Program participants.
  • 22 Science Communication Fellows, 15 Science & Engineering Interns, 1 NOAA Educational Partnership Program ocean science intern and 8 Honors Research Program students participated in the 2014 Nautilus Exploration Program, representing 21 states and 7 countries.
  • 352 live, interactive broadcasts from E/V Nautilus and the Inner Space Center to 60 global education venues.
  • 2.4 million page views and 830,000 unique visitors to E/V Nautilus website.
  • More than 4,800 Twitter followers.
  • More than 25,000 Facebook followers.
  • More than 12,300 YouTube subscribers and 5.1 million video views.

Education

  • Nearly 2 million downloads of curriculum and educational materials, more than doubling from FY13.
  • 31 Ocean Exploration Professional Development Programs offered at 14 Education Alliance Partners around the country.
  • 647 teachers reached (4,269 contact hours).
  • 72,257 students reached.
  • 29 countries, 40 U.S. states, 640 participants reached in five-week online course titled “Deep-sea Discoveries in the Atlantic Onboard the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer: An Online Workshop to Advance Transatlantic Ocean Science Literacy.”

Administration

  • $26 million FY14 OER budget.
  • 19 proposals totaling $11.2 million processed and awarded via OER’s federal grants program.
  • $4 million in service contracts processed, renewed or extended.
  • 65 procurement actions totaling close to $2 million awarded related to Okeanos Explorer scientific equipment.

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