2023 Operations Schedule (PDF)
The following is a list of mission dates, principal investigators, their affiliation, and project titles that the Undersea Vehicles Program will support in 2023. New projects will be added as they are confirmed.
-April 17 - May 24, 2023:Tim Battista, NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Sciences
"Multibeam groundtruthing of Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands. NOAA Ship Nancy Foster"-June 27 - July 31 , 2023:
Stacey Harter, NOAA MDBC
"ROV surveys of Gulf of Mexico Mesophotic Coral. NOAA Ship Pisces"-Sept 14 - Oct 1, 2023:
Marissa Nuttall, Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary
"Stetson Bank Long Term Monitoring. R/V Manta"-October 8 - 18, 2023:
Dr. Peter Etnoyer, NOAA-Deep Sea Coral Program
"Soft coral collections in De Soto Canyon"