Cruise title: 2025 NEPDEP Expedition – Seeps and Heat Partners: NEPDEP – Council of the Haida Nation, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, Ocean Networks Canada, Royal BC Museum, University of Victoria…
The Science We Need for the Ocean We Want Despite decades of ocean exploration, we still lack basic answers to one of the most fundamental ecological questions: where is marine life found, and…
Cruise title: Visualizing the Deep off Uruguay Partners: Universidad de la República of Uruguay. Schmidt Ocean Institute Lead PIs: Alvar Carranza Location: Uruguay Dates: 12th August 2025 About The Rio de la Plata…
Cruise: Climate Connections at the Ice-Sea Interface Partners: University of Aveiro, Portugal, University College London, UK. Schmidt Ocean Institute. Lead PIs: Patricia Esquete and Aleksandr Montelli Location: Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica Dates: 10th January…
Cruise: Mesophotic Scientific Expedition to the SFF Malpelo. Partners: Friends of the Charles Darwin FoundationBezos Earth FundUniversidad de Costa RicaSmithsonian Tropical Research InstituteCharles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands (CDF) Lead PIs: David…
The Building local capacity to protect national marine biodiversity (BAIT) project, launched in 2023, has been a game-changer for offshore science in Cabo Verde and beyond. Focused on enhancing marine ecosystem monitoring in the Cabo…
Cruise title: 2024 NEPDEP Expedition Partners: NEDPEP is a collaboration between Council of the Haida Nation, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, Ocean Networks Canada, Royal BC Museum, and University of Victoria.…
Cruise title: SIGSBEE-24 Partners: Dr Liliana Pardo, Institute of Biotechnology, Dr. Carlos Mortera, Institute of Geophysics, Dr. Efrain Morellos, Institute of Marine Sciences and LimnologyCoordination of Oceanographic Platforms, National Council of Marine Protected Areas…
Cruise title: CroCHEt – Cross border coral habitat exploration Partners: Dalhousie University; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA); Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) Lead PIs: Anna Metaxas and Martha Nizinski Location: Offshore Boston,…
Acknowledging the significant disparities in global capacity for deep-sea research and leveraging a participatory approach, the Challenger 150 African Network of Deep-water Researchers (ANDR) proposes a series of short-, medium-, and long-term measures…
In March 2024 representatives for 13 nations boarding the Atlantic met in Aveiro Portugal, under the auspices of the Challenger 150 UN Ocean Decade Programme, to draw up a plan to develop the…
image credit: Dante Fenolio / DEEPEND Cruise title: DEEPEND (Deep Pelagic Nekton Dynamics) Lead PIs: Tracey Sutton Partners: Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center, Nova Southeastern University; US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Location: Gulf of Mexico…