Although oceans cover 70% of the Earth's surface, more than 80% are unmapped and unexplored, especially the deep sea's (>200 m) diverse submarine canyons, ridges and seamounts, extensive deep-sea coral habitats, methane seeps, and potential geohazards. New data can inform stock assessments, offshore energy development, and earlier warnings of costly natural disasters, and improve our knowledge of underwater hazards, biogeography, and the impacts of geological and oceanographic processes.
But our understanding remains limited due to cost, distance, and time. Collaborations across agencies, academia, and industry are key to increasing ocean data using a variety of remote sensing technologies. Since 2016, two regional campaigns have formed to address these challenges: the Atlantic Seafloor Partnership for Integrated Research and Exploration (ASPIRE) and the West Coast EXpanding Pacific Research and Exploration of Submerged Systems (EXPRESS). This session will share ongoing research, new discoveries, and emerging technologies that provide insights into the habitats, geological history, and connectivity of these ocean basins, including results from ASPIRE and EXPRESS. Presentations will describe partnerships in integrated ocean mapping and exploration that have resulted in new thinking and findings, as well as lessons learned from which we can all benefit.
Primary Chair: Ashley Chappell, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Co-chairs: Caitlin Adams, NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States, Jeremy Potter, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of the Interior, Camarillo, CA, United States and Kasey Lynn Cantwell, NOAA Ocean Exploration, Silver Spring, United States
Primary Liaison: Ashley Chappell, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Moderators: Kasey Lynn Cantwell, NOAA Ocean Exploration, Silver Spring, United States, Jeremy Potter, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of the Interior, Camarillo, CA, United States, Caitlin Adams, NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States and Ashley Chappell, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Student Paper Review Liaison: Kasey Lynn Cantwell, NOAA Ocean Exploration, Silver Spring, United States
Windows to the Deep: new discoveries from two years of exploration offshore the Southeastern US (636280)
Kasey Lynn Cantwell, NOAA Ocean Exploration, Silver Spring, United States, Cheryl Morrison, USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center, Kearneysville, United States, Alexis M Weinnig, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Michael Patrick White, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research via Cherokee Nation Strategic Programs, Durham, NH, United States, Amy J Wagner, California State University Sacramento, Department of Geology, Sacramento, United States, Leslie Sautter, College of Charleston, Geology and Environmental Geosciences, Charleston, United States, Stephanie Farrington, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, FAU, FL, United States and Windows to the Deep 2018 & 2019 Science Teams
Identifying Gaps in Bathymetric Coverage in U.S. Deep Waters (655325)
Jesse D Varner1, Meredith Westington2, Mashkoor Malik3, Rachel Medley3, Jennifer Jencks4 and Meme Lobecker5, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, (2)NOAA National Ocean Service, Office of Coast Survey, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)NOAA Ocean Exploration, Silver Spring, United States, (4)NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Boulder, United States, (5)NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research via Cherokee Nation Strategic Programs, Durham, NH, United States
Mapping Benthic Habitat on the West Florida Shelf Using Multibeam Acoustics and Towed Underwater Video to Improve Fisheries Science and Management (641575)
Alexander Ross Ilich1, Jennifer L Brizzolara2, Sarah Grasty1, John W Gray2, Matthew Hommeyer3, Chad Lembke1, Stanley D Locker1, Alex Silverman1, Theodore Switzer4, Abigail Vivlamore1 and Steven A Murawski3, (1)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St Petersburg, FL, United States, (2)The Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO), MS, United States, (3)University of South Florida, College of Marine Science, St Petersburg, United States, (4)Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, St Petersburg, FL, United States
Prioritizing Areas for Future Seafloor Mapping, Research, and Exploration Offshore of California, Oregon, and Washington (646354)
Bethany Williams1,2, Bryan Costa3, Mathew S. Kendall4, Ken Buja4 and Jennifer Kraus4, (1)NOAA, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Silver Spring, United States, (2)CSS Inc., Farifax, VA, United States, (3)NOAA, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)NOAA, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Water Column Characterization and Deep-sea Coral Trophodynamics on the U.S. West Coast Region (648174)
Nancy Prouty, USGS, Santa Cruz, United States, Meredith Everett, NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, United States, M. Elizabeth Clarke, NOAA NWFSC, Seattle, WA, United States, Amanda W Demopoulos, US Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Gainesville, United States, Carina Fish, University of California Davis, Bodega Marine Laboratory, Davis, CA, United States, Nissa Kreidler, Humboldt State University, United States, Chelsey Souza, UC Davis, United States, Diana Watters, NOAA, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, CA, United States and Tom Laidig, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United States
What's Associated with Deep-sea Corals and Sponges? (639407)
Laura Anthony, Florida State University, Biological Science, Tallahassee, United States, Heather M Coleman, NOAA Deep Sea Coral Research & Technology Program, Silver Spring, United States, Thomas F. Hourigan, NOAA Fisheries, Deep Sea Coral Research & Technology Program, Silver Spring, United States and Mashkoor Malik, NOAA Ocean Exploration, Silver Spring, United States
