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NOAA Ocean Exploration and the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation have awarded 12 grants to help engage and inspire the next generation of ocean explorers related to ocean literacy and workforce development.

From October 2022 through December 2023, NOAA Ocean Exploration and partners will conduct a series of telepresence-enabled ocean exploration expeditions on NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer to improve knowledge about unexplored and poorly understood deepwater areas of the U.S. West Coast from Southern California to Washington.

NOAA and two of Australia's leading science agencies announced a formal agreement Tuesday to work together to advance Pacific Ocean exploration and mapping, a major priority for NOAA and of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.

In partnership with NOAA Ocean Exploration, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) has launched a new NOAA Ocean Exploration Data Atlas. The data atlas is a freely available and publicly accessible map-based tool for viewing and accessing data collected during NOAA Ocean Exploration expeditions.

On October 19, 2022, at 3:30 p.m. ET, NOAA Ocean Exploration will lead a special session at OCEANS 2022 Hampton Roads titled, “From Innovation to Collaboration: Propelling Ocean Exploration Forward to Meet the Needs of the Future.”.

The John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship has allowed me to bridge natural and social sciences and policy in ways that I would have never imagined.

NOAA Ocean Exploration and the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation are proud to announce that the request for proposals for this year’s Ocean Exploration Education Grants to support efforts related to ocean literacy and workforce development is now open.

University of Southern California (USC) faculty and staff, including Professor of Biological Sciences and Environmental Studies Dr. John Heidelberg, USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies Executive Director Dr. Jessica Dutton, and Dive Safety Officer Hanna Reed, created an American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) dive training program for students from backgrounds that are underrepresented in the scientific diving community.

The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (SUNY) on behalf of SUNY Geneseo was one of seven recipients of an Ocean Exploration Education Mini-Grant from NOAA Ocean Exploration and the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation.

This year, with grant funding from NOAA Ocean Exploration and the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, Spencer Cody continued building capacity for ocean literacy and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics workforce development by not only bringing ocean science to South Dakota classrooms, but by bringing South Dakota educators and students to the ocean!

On Thursday, September 8, representatives from NOAA Ocean Exploration will be onsite with our Education Alliance Partners at the EcoExploratorio, a science museum based in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Black in Marine Science (BIMS) created the BlMS Immersion Program (“BIP”), a week-long experience designed to reduce barriers that prevent black, indiginous, and people of color (BIPOC) from entering the field of marine science.

On August 11, 2022, the Saildrone Surveyor departed Dutch Harbor in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, embarking on a multipartner project to better understand the ocean and seafloor in one of the most remote and understudied parts of the United States.

When Mystic Aquarium first applied for an Ocean Exploration Education Mini-Grant from NOAA Ocean Exploration and the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, they intended to use the funds to create an Ocean Exploration Adventure for 200 eighth grade students and their five teachers from underserved communities in Cranston, Rhode Island.