And, ocean exploration can improve ocean literacy and inspire young people to seek critical careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. As a species, humans are naturally inquisitive — curiosity, desire for knowledge, and quest for adventure motivate modern explorers even today.

About NOAA Ocean Exploration. Learn about NOAA Ocean Exploration, a federal organization dedicated to exploring the unknown ocean, unlocking its potential through scientific discovery, technological advancements, and data delivery.

The mission of NOAA Ocean Exploration is to explore the ocean for national benefit. As the only U.S. federal organization dedicated to exploring the unknown ocean, we are filling gaps in the basic understanding of U.S. deep waters and the seafloor and delivering the ocean information needed to strengthen the economy, security, and health of the United States.

2024年8月13日 · NOAA Ocean Exploration and partners are continuously working to push the boundaries of technology, testing new tools or applications that will allow the ocean exploration community to explore deeper, farther, and more comprehensively than previously possible. Video courtesy of NOAA Ocean Exploration, 2021 Technology Demonstration.

NOAA Ocean Exploration supports research expeditions to explore previously unvisited areas of the ocean. We provide partnership coordination, funding, staff, tools, and expertise needed to develop mission plans that deliver rigorous, systematic observations and documentation of biological, chemical, physical, geological, and archaeological ...

Browse through the multimedia-rich features below to learn more about ocean exploration, meet some of the interesting animals that call the deep ocean home, take a look at technology used to study the deep, unravel the mysteries of ocean data, uncover maritime heritage findings, discover ocean exploration career opportunities, and delve into ...

NOAA Ocean Exploration engages educators, students and the general public to enhance America’s environmental literacy through the excitement of ocean discovery. Dive in here to explore deep-sea phenomena and resources to support classroom instruction and inspire students to better understand our ocean planet.

2024年4月4日 · NOAA Ocean Exploration provides support to the NOAA Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute to explore, map, and characterize the nation’s vast ocean territory, to develop and implement new technologies, and to engage future generations of ocean scientists, engineers, and stakeholders.

2024年4月9日 · From April 2024 through October 2024, 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 Hawai’i and Johnston Atoll. Data collected will establish a baseline in these areas ...

History of NOAA Ocean Exploration; History of NOAA Ocean Exploration. In these pages, we trace NOAA's history of ocean exploration and that of its forerunners to the present day. Through the 19th Century, NOAA's ancestor agencies, in cooperation with the U.S. Navy, were the principal ocean explorers for the United States government.