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Caribbean/SAB ROV and Mapping

Vessel: NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer; Expedition Dates: November 28, 2018 to December 16, 2018

Ports: San Juan, PR to Charleston, SC

Project Principals: Lt. Nikolai Pawlenko, NOAA/OAR/OER (Expedition Coordinator); Michael White, NOAA/OAR/OER (Mapping Lead)

Caribbean/SAB ROV and Mapping Overview Map

Operations will include the use of the ship's deep water mapping systems (Kongsberg EM302 multibeam sonar, EK60 split-beam fisheries sonars, Knudsen 3260 chirp sub-bottom profiler sonar, and Teledyne Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler), XBT casts in support of multibeam sonar mapping operations, OER's two-body ROV Deep Discoverer and Seirios, and the ship's high-bandwidth satellite connection for continuous real-time ship-to-shore communications and the ship's high-bandwidth satellite connection for continuous real-time ship-to-shore communications. Operations are planned in the US EEZ, Dominican Republic, Turks and Caicos Islands and Bahamas.

Expedition Data and Resources

Mapping Summary Report (PDF - 1.04 MB) Open Click to open link
Mapping Products Download Use zip utility to open file
Shipboard CTDs Download Use zip utility to open file
Ship Navigation Data (ASCII) Download Use zip utility to open file
Ship SCS/Sensor Data (ASCII) Download Use zip utility to open file
Ship SCS/Sensor Data (NetCDF) Open NetCDF file format: Special software needed to read

Educational Resources

Education Materials Collection Open Click to open Education Materials

Publication Resources

NOAA Central Library OER Bibliography Open Click to open OER Bibliography

Links to Archived Data and Resources

Multibeam Archive Collection Get Data Click to Access Archive
Water Column Sonar Archive Collection Get Data Click to Access Archive
Trackline Data (Single-beam and Sub-bottom) Get Data Click to Access Archive
Physical, Chemical, and Biological Archive Collection Get Data Click to Access Archive
Expedition Metadata Open Click to view Metadata in xml format