NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research Workshop

Workshop Announcement - Recommendations Sought

NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER) is hosting a workshop to provide an overview of a new program of telepresence-enabled exploration and to identify areas in the Atlantic Ocean (including the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea) where this approach should be applied. Telepresence-enabled exploration is currently being conducted by the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer and the Ocean Exploration Trust’s Exploration Vessel (E/V) Nautilus. Equipped with sonar equipment and remotely operated vehicles outfitted with high-definition video cameras, the ships transmit information to shore-based Exploration Command Centers, Remote Consoles and over the Internet to broadly distributed teams of explorers.

This announcement seeks input from members of the ocean community in the form of one-page descriptions of areas and targets in the Atlantic that have the highest potential for discoveries that can lay the ground work for further scientific investigation. Please visit http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov or http://explore.noaa.gov/pre-workshop-recommendations-sought for a full announcement and details for submitting ideas. The deadline for submission is March 31, 2011.