February - March 2015: NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer conducted a mapping expedition, beginning in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, and ending in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Fuller, N., E. McMahon, A. North, A. J. Petty, C. Tzetzis, J. Calus, A. Sekarore, et al. (2024) Observations of Trash in the Deep Tropical Atlantic and Caribbean Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 209. doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.117182.
January 2015 - August 2016: Scientists used next-generation DNA sequencing technologies and cutting-edge bioinformatics approaches to enable the discovery and characterization of the largely unknown molecular diversity of microbes associated with Arctic sea ice and seafloor habitats.
No known articles related to this expedition have been published at this time.
May - June 2015: NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer journeyed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, exploring along the way. Okeanos Explorer will leave Puerto Rico to traverse the Western Caribbean, Panama Canal, and Eastern Pacific.
No known articles related to this expedition have been published at this time.
July 2015: Scientists used combined expertise in bioluminescence, taxonomy, visual ecology, imaging and molecular biology, and the unique collecting capabilities and camera systems of the Global Explorer to continue studies of the deep-sea benthic environment in the Gulf of Mexico.
No known articles related to this expedition have been published at this time.
August 2015: This expedition brought the NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries’ Maritime Heritage Program to the remote and challenging Alaska region for the first time in the more than four decades since the creation of the National Marine Sanctuary Program.
No known articles related to this expedition have been published at this time.
2015: Over a two-year period, a team from the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez systematically tested, improved, and enhanced relatively low-cost free vehicles and free vehicle-supported research methods in shallow to abyssal depths.
No known articles related to this expedition have been published at this time.
Spring 2015: Leading the state-of-the-art development of marine robotic 3D mapping for underwater archaeology, our University of Michigan-based team returned from an archaeological field expedition to the underwater city of Port Royal, Jamaica.
No known articles related to this expedition have been published at this time.
July 2015: NOAA and partner scientists deployed a hydrophone to a depth of 10,971 meters (6.71 miles) within the Challenger Deep trough in the Mariana Trench near Micronesia. Here are some of their results.
No known articles related to this expedition have been published at this time.
August -September 2015: Scientists conducted the final round of fieldwork as part of the Coral Ecosystem Connectivity 2015: From Pulley Ridge to the Florida Keys expedition.
No known articles related to this expedition have been published at this time.
July -September 2015: A team of NOAA and external partners both at-sea and on shore conducted mapping and remotely operated vehicle operations in the deep waters of the Hawaiian Archipelago, including the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument and Johnston Atoll. This expedition was the first CAPSTONE mission.
Amon, D. J., Kennedy, B. R. C., Cantwel, K., Suhre, K., Glickson, D., Shank, T. M., & Rotjan, R. D. (2020). Deep-Sea Debris in the Central and Western Pacific Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, 15. doi:10.3389/fmars.2020.00369
Ross, T., Du Preez, C., & Ianson, D. (2020). Rapid deep ocean deoxygenation and acidification threaten life on Northeast Pacific seamounts. Global Change Biology, 21. doi:10.1111/gcb.15307
Scott, B., & Konrad., K. (2024). Seventeen million years of episodic volcanism recorded within the Geologist Seamounts: Implications for tectonic drivers of intraplate volcanism. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, 25, 12. doi: 10.1029/2024gc011806
