The crew of NOAA’s Okeanos Explorer recently spent six days in New York at the halfway point of their Northeast US Canyons Expedition. Before departing for the continental shelf between Nantucket and the Canadian border, LT Brian Kennedy was gracious enough to give PHE’s Alan Curry a tour of the research vessel, including a look at their newest remotely-operated-vehicle, Deep Discoverer, profiled here: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/okeanos/explorations/ex1302/new_rov_video.html
Defining a national strategy for ocean exploration was the aim of a recent three-day conference in Long Beach, CA, which Jesse helped to plan: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/oceanexploration2020/participate/welcome.html