Schmidt Ocean Institute - Discovering Deep-Sea Corals of the Phoenix Islands Expedition
October 5 - November 1, 2017
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Office of Ocean Exploration and Research and Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI) invite educators to follow along live with the 2017 DISCOVERING DEEP-SEA CORALS OF THE PHOENIX ISLANDS EXPEDITION. This expedition began October 5 and live dives with the remotely operated vehicle, SuBastian, are taking place through the end of the month.
For the past three years, the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer has conducted expeditions in the central and western Pacific Ocean as part of a multi-year effort called the 'Campaign to Address Pacific monument Science, Technology, and Ocean NEeds (CAPSTONE)'. During this October expedition, Schmidt Ocean Institute is exploring new areas of the Phoenix Island Protected Area (PIPA), expanding on the work that NOAA did during this Campaign.
About halfway between Hawaii and Fiji, PIPA includes huge tracts of deep ocean pierced with underwater volcanoes, seamounts, atolls and submerged reefs, creating an isolated, virtually untouched coral archipelago ecosystem. The shallows host hundreds of ocean species, but PIPA is also the first Pacific protected area where depths exceed 5,000 meters, and entirely unknown species are sure to live at those depths. Questions for this expedition include: Why does this biodiversity exist in the deep sea and what sort of connections are there between shallow water environments and the deep sea?
Aboard the R/V Falkor, scientists are exploring PIPA using multibeam sonar, SOI's remotely operated vehicle, SuBastian, and other tools and sensors. ROV dives are streaming live from SOI's YouTube page (@Schmidt Ocean) and website ( www.schmidtocean.org).
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