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(Andy speaking in Hawaiian)

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<v ->Welcome to our NOAA Office</v>

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of National Marine Sanctuaries Webinar

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Community-based Exploration, discovering the Mysteries

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of Deep Pacific with everyone,

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our awesome Dr. Daniel Wagner.

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And we are going to start our broadcast with protocol,

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as is appropriate in Hawaiʻi, to open this space

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to open up our minds to learning.

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And this time I'm going turn it over to Hōkū Pihana

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to welcome us to this space.

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(Hōkū chanting in Hawaiian begins)

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<v ->Thank you everybody for joining us today.</v>

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So this webinar is being hosted by our Office

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of National Marine Sanctuaries,

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and now we are at 16 National Marine Sanctuaries

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across the United States and into the Pacific.

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The most recent one, just designated last month,

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is Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary.

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We have a few others in the Great Lakes

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and along the East Coast of the United States,

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including some other recent ones like Mallows Bay,

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Potomac River National Marine Sanctuary,

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all the way down into the Florida Keys,

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Flower Garden Banks in the Gulf,

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several along the west coast of the United States

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and out into the Pacific we have two.

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We have Hawaiian Islands

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Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary,

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National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa,

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and also a few in the designation process including

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Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument

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and also proposed designation

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for the Pacific Remote Islands National Marine Sanctuary.

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And so if you look in the chat,

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you can find out more about these designations,

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how you can get involved, what stage we're at

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and other information.

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But Hoku and I

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and previously Dan worked for

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the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.

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It's the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

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And so we're the largest fully protected area on the planet

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at 582,578 square miles.

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If you're overlaid over the US it would stretch from

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approximately Louisiana to Las Vegas, Nevada.

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So it's a huge area of ocean that we protect

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and hopefully we'll get further protections

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as a National Marine Sanctuary.

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So our hosts today are you heard earlier, Hōkū Pihana,

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our Native Hawaiian specialist

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at Mokupāpapa Discovery Center.

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Myself, Andy Collins, I'm education coordinator

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for Papahānaumokuākea

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and also our National Education Liaison

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for National Marine Sanctuaries, Claire Fackler,

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who's helping us with some backend stuff,

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answering questions.

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And if you have any challenges with your audio,

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which I forgot to mention, if you are having problems

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with the audio, please type your questions

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into the question bar or in the chat

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and we'll see if we can help you get that straightened out.

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It's usually an issue around your speakers

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or there's a settings

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Make sure that that's correct with

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your correct audio settings for speakers or microphone

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and headphones, that's usually where the problems arise.

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But we work, Hoku and I work over

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at our Mokupāpapa Discovery Center in Hilo.

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We have a beautiful facility on Bayfront,

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a 30,000 square foot facility with an aquarium,

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interpretive panels in English

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and Hawaiian many beautiful images

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and also runs school groups through the facility.

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We get about 8,000 school kids.

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We run through field trips every year.

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So if you're in Hilo, we're free,

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come down, we'd love to see you.

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We're open Tuesday through Saturday, nine to four

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and across the system, our National Marine Sanctuary serve

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to protect the biodiversity, also provide shelter for rare,

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threatened endangered species

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and many other species, protect the cultural

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heritage of these places.

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This is an image from Makumanamana,

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which is the second island

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up the chain in Papahānaumokuākea.

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And this is some of the, has the highest density

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of cultural sites anywhere in the Hawaiian Archipelago.

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And this is one of the examples.

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It's a ceremonial site on the island spine.

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Also to protect maritime heritage.

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There are many incredible maritime heritage sites

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across the system.

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In Papahānaumokuākea, we have many whaling shipwrecks

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from the whaling era

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that are preserved in almost almost a pristine state

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because very few people have gotten up there.

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Also, we conduct research on the species that we protect,

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monitor the ecosystems for changes such as changes

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from climate change or other manmade disturbances

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and natural disturbances.

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We also do things like out planting corals.

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This is an incredible program

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Mission Iconic Reefs down in Florida, keys

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where they're out planting corals to protect some of the,

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some of the reefs down there and restore them.

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We also conduct education programs like this, this webinar

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and outreach at various events

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around the system around the country.

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And we can't do all this without really strong,

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robust volunteers of course.

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So if you live near a national marine sanctuary

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or would like to volunteer in any way, please reach out

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to us and we'd love to have you.

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And again, these are, you know,

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these are special places across the system where we can kind

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of reconnect with ourselves,

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take the time out from this technology based

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society we live in and just reconnect with nature.

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And that's one of the big reasons why we protect these

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places and talk about how important they are,

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so our presenter today is Dr. Daniel Wagner.

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He is the chief scientist at Ocean Exploration Trust.

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He's conducted field work on deep sea ecosystems since 2006

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and has since participated in 27 multidisciplinary research

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expeditions that have explored deep sea habitats throughout

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the Indo-Pacific, Atlantic and southern oceans.

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Daniel grew up in Ecuador, where at a young age.

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he interned at Galapagos National Park

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an experience during which he developed a deep fascination

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for nature and the ocean.

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He then moved to Hawaiʻi where he earned a bachelor

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of science in biology from Hawaiʻi Pacific University,

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as well as a master of science

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and PhD degrees in oceanography from the University

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of Hawaiʻi at Manoa.

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So at this time, I'm gonna turn it over to Dan

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to tell us about what ocean exploration trust

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and model is live are doing this year in the Pacific.

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So over to you Dan.

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We'll change the presenter here.

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<v ->Thank you so much, Andy, for the generous introduction.</v>

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Aloha, good morning, good afternoon, good evening everyone.

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It's an absolute pleasure to be here

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and share a little bit about plans that we have here

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for the upcoming season.

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Can you confirm, Andy,

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that you can see my slides?

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It just dropped out.

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<v ->I'm just seeing your desktop a moment.</v>

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There we go. Now I see your slides.

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<v ->Wonderful.</v>

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So yeah, appreciate the opportunity.

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We are at the beginning of a very exciting field season

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that will bring exploration vessel Nautilus across both

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sides of the Pacific Ocean,

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where this year we're celebrating 50 years

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of having exploration vessel Nautilus explore

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places all around the world.

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And this year, we'll probably have one

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of the most far reaching seasons

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that will bring Nautilus from Canada to the Central Pacific

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and then ending in Palau and Guam.

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So very exciting work.

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Before I get started, I do want

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to just acknowledge our generous sponsors

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who are funding this work.

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So our main sponsors and most of the work

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that I'll be talking about

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during this talk are NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration

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and Research through the Ocean Exploration

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Cooperative Institute.

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This is a consortium of oceanographic institutions

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that includes us,

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but it also includes the University of Rhode Island,

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University of New Hampshire,

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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and the University of Southern Mississippi

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that all work together collaboratively

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to advance the core priorities of NOAA ocean exploration.

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And that is primarily to explore poorly known parts

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of our oceans.

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Some of the work in the last few weeks,

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if you've followed us, funded by Ocean Networks Canada,

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we are very grateful for their collaborations.

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Also, this year is the second year

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of a successful partnership with some

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of our field work being funded by the Bureau

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of Ocean Energy Management.

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And then several of our field programs,

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including paid positions for our interns

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and science communication fellows that I'll talk about are

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funded by the Office of Naval Research.

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And we're all very thankful for this support.

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So to get us started, I think there's

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a growing awareness within, you know, within the population

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that we live on a largely ocean planet.

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Not just in coastal places

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or in island places like here in Hawaiʻi,

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but there's luckily there's a growing realization

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that the biggest part of our planet now,

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over 70% is covered by this deep blue.

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However, I think the vast majority of our human population

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still doesn't realize that how much

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of this deep blue is completely unknown and unexplored

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and we know virtually nothing about, you know,

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this is a map that is now somewhat dated,

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but it shows the global coverage of

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where we have good sea floor mapping data.

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About a fourth of the global sea floor has only been mapped

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with modern technologies.

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And so we have about 3/4 of our global sea floor

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for which we still do not have good sea floor maps.

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And this is just talking about, you know, mapping,

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which is really the foundation for,

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for further understanding and exploration.

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If we think about how much

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of the global ocean we actually have images on

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where we've either deployed divers or submersibles

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or cameras or other equipment that, you know, has visualized

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what the sea floor looks like, that is, you know,

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a fraction of a percent.

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So 99% really of our global ocean is completely unexplored

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and unknown and we know very little about.

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And so that information is really key.

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You know, filling this large knowledge gap,

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all that black area is really important for many different

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disciplines, very many different resources for a lot

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of things that we as society need.

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So if you don't know, 99% of your ocean is very difficult

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to build global models

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and understand things like climate change or global cycles

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and carbon sequestration.

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So really understanding fundamental processes

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of how our planet works.

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And then it also has some really direct

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more applied implications.

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So understanding what is within our oceans has a lot

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of implications for how we wanna manage it,

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how we manage our fisheries,

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how we manage our conservation areas

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and marine protected areas.

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And then last but not least, there's

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of course also some direct human health benefits.

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And in addition to providing now food security, you know,

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a lot of newer drugs are being developed with compounds

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that come from the marine realm.

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So there's a lot of benefits

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of really exploring this large unknown

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that is the blue ocean.

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And another really fundamental benefit of exploring

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our deep oceans is that it is one

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of the few things we have left really in that,

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that can bring people from different backgrounds,

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from different ages, from different political

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spectrum all together and just be fascinated.

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You know, we have unfortunately have this growing

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polarization in a lot of things within society,

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but exploration both in space as in the ocean is one

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of these few things that can bring together people from

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all different backgrounds.

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And I'll just be fascinated by all the incredible things

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that in some cases exist right on our doorsteps

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and which we know very little about.

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And that really brings us

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to the organization that I work for.

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The Ocean Exploration and Trust.

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We are a US based nonprofit that own

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and operate exploration vessel Nautilus with a mission

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of really exploring poorly known parts of our ocean,

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seeking out new discoveries by pushing the boundaries

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of technology, education and outreach.

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So our mission is really threefold.

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It's about, you know, scientific exploration

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and gaining new knowledge, technological innovation,

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so using cutting edge technologies to do our work

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and then using this work to really engage audiences

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of all ages and all backgrounds

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to get them excited about this work.

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So we own and operate exploration vessel Nautilus

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that is equipped with several technologies

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that are really make this a wonderful platform

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for exploring the biggest part of our planet

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that we know very little about.

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So it's a 224 foot research vessel with space

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for about 52 crew and scientists, engineers

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and educators then sail on our expeditions.

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And in addition to the wonderful people

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that sail on our expeditions, we also have various tools,

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sensors and equipment to

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gain more information about the deep ocean,

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on the hull of the vessel are a suite of different sonars.

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So these are mapping technologies, basically tools

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that emit sound

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and that sound is then steered towards the sea floor.

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That sound comes back

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and we can then create these wonderful three dimensional

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maps of what the sea floor looks like.

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And that information is really key

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to help us plan more in depth studies of what we do.

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And exploration vessel Nautilus also equipped with a series

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of remotely operated vehicles.

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So these are submersibles that are tethered to the ship

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and these are wonderful tools that are equipped

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with all kinds of different technologies

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and sensors to get more information,

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including various high definition video

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and photo cameras, environmental sensors that collect,

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you know, information on oxygen, pH, all kinds of things.

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And then also the ability

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to collect physical samples in those rare cases when we come

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across things that are, is, is really of pivotal importance

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for further research and exploration.

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So as I mentioned, our submersibles are un-crewed,

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so they are remotely operated.

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There's a tether that connects these vehicles to the ship,

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that tether provides the vehicles with the power

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that we need to, you know, run the lights

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and motors and everything on the ROV.

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But that cable also transmits the data up to the ship.

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And so the data that we have including

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the high resolution video camera streams,

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and all the other environmental data streams is then brought

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to the ship where a group of about 12 people

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or so, basically monitor this continuously

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when we do dive operations.

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And this is an image of the control room.

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And another thing that makes this vessel cell wonderful is

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that white dome towards the back of the ship.

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And so basically the ship is equipped

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with high bandwidth internet.

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And so not only are we able to transmit that data

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to the people that are on the ship,

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but via internet then

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to anyone in the world can also follow along.

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So when we are out at sea

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throughout the 24 hours a day,

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we basically transmit video streams.

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So when we're not diving, you'll be able

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to see cameras all over the ship of folks doing the work.

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And when we're diving, you can see almost real time exactly

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what the sea floor looks like in some

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of these very remote places, which is just

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an absolutely wonderful tool

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to engage folks.

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And it's also a wonderful tool

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because it allows us to engage

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beyond the 50 or so people that sail on the expedition.

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We're able to harness the intellectual capacity really

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of the entire globe.

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You know, scientists, regardless of where they are, where

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what time zone is they, as long

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as they have an internet connection, they can, you know,

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pop up their laptop

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and see exactly what we are seeing on the ship

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and then communicate with us

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and help us guide our operations.

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And this is just a wonderful thing

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because when you're exploring, when you're going

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to places you've never been before,

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chances are very likely that you'll find things

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that no one has seen before

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and only very few people know something about.

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So be able to engage those key experts at the key moments

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is a big part of how we do our operations.

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But beyond just engaging, you know, technical experts,

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a big part of our mission and really central to the core

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in our values is engaging communities

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and engaging audiences of all ages in what we do.

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So our live streams

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and our telepresence technology are just wonderful tools

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to help us reach, you know, really everyone

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and that a big part of what we do

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here at the Ocean Exploration Trust with our partners.

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So our program priorities are really just a few.

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So we are a lot mostly, as I mentioned, most

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of our work is funded by NOAA ocean exploration

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and we closely align the work we do with that

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of our sponsors.

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And the majority of our work is being guided

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by national strategies such as the NOMEC

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a national strategy on ocean exploration

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and mapping as well as Seabed 20,

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a global effort to try to map

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that 75% of our ocean that hasn't been mapped.

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So a lot of our efforts are really kind of try

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to key in on those national priorities.

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As I mentioned, mapping and exploring unsurveyed areas

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or poorly known surveyed of our global ocean,

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integrating emerging technologies.

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So I talked about remotely operated vehicles,

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the mapping sonars and telepresence technologies,

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but there are increasingly more

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and more technologies coming in the market

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including autonomous vehicles

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and other sensors.

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And so in collaboration with our partners,

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we also use Nautilus as really a test bed

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to integrate these emerging technologies

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and integrating them in a, with those technologies

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that have endured the test of time.

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And then a big part of what I wanted to reach all

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of you today about is, is not it's collaborative.

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What we do is community driven.

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Our expeditions are not run just

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to appease the interest of a few, you know, scientists

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or personal investigators.

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So our expeditions are really trying to tailor to the needs

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of the global community.

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So that includes, you know, resource managers

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that have jurisdiction of the places we are,

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but you know, the scientific community at large,

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and really everyone.

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And so our expeditions, we really try to tailor them

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to the needs of the geographies

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that we're operating in primarily,

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but also to the broader community at large.

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And to facilitate all that, the work

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on our expeditions is made publicly accessible, a lot

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of it in real time, but most of it within a couple months

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after an expedition.

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So all the data

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that we collect on these expeditions is put in various

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places so that anyone is able to access it.

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And then those folks that have the expertise

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are able to do follow up studies.

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Now we realize it's a tremendous privilege to be able

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to have expeditions that go to places

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where in some cases no one has really been before.

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And so we wanna make all this data accessible so that it,

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you know, it fuels following research management

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and exploration activities.

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So we are at the beginning really

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of our 2024 field season.

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So we started our field season just about a month ago

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and the last few weeks have been doing work

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off Canada in support of Ocean Networks Canada

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and their cable array off the coast of British Columbia.

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And now for the next months here from

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basically mid-July through mid-December,

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exploration vessel Nautilus will be coming

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back to the Central Pacific

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and then doing work in some very exciting places.

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And you know, when we show maps of the ocean,

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typically they show, you know, features like this,

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but I think that they really do disservice

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a little bit in terms of communicating

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the excitement of some of this.

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So I personally like maps like this that show, you know,

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this is showing basically if you were

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to drain the water from the oceans

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and then exaggerate a little bit

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what the seafloor looks like.

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You know, the places that we'll be operating here

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over the next several months is just stunning diversity

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and some of really complex topography,

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really exciting sea floor habitats.

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And so we'll be going across basically one

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of the most complex and interesting parts

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of the world really when you take a look.

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So thousands of underwater mountains, canyons,

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a lot of very interesting places to do this work.

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In terms of kind of general places

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that we'll be exploring kind of general things

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that we'll be targeting.

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So a lot of our work is really trying to use

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all of our tools collectively

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to basically focus those on areas

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where we think we might find high biodiversity.

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So deep water ecosystems where we think we'll find,

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you know, dense aggregations of animals.

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And those are typically found in places where you find

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some complex topography

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or where currents would be accelerated.

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So over underwater mountains.

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We're also having several of our expeditions

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focused on areas where we have hydrothermal activity.

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So where features from the center of the earth

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are bubbling and erupting onto the sea floor.

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And these are places where you find some,

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some really interesting biology as well,

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some really highly productive systems.

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And then just some interesting geology.

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So many of the places that we'll be visiting here

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over the coming months are places where the seafloor

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or the features that we're investigating were created,

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you know, over a hundred million years ago.

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And in some cases those habitats are found to sea floor

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that is much more recent.

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So it also allows us to, you know, understand really

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the history of our planet

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and so that the geological perspective is,

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is really also a big part that is centering our expeditions.

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So I talked a little bit about our general paradigm

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for explorations.

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So majority of our expeditions have a component

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of seafloor mapping, so using our sonar

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to create these wonderful three-dimensional

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maps of the seafloor.

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The other half of our expeditions have some kind

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of component of remotely operated vehicles.

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So deploying our unmanned systems to look at these features

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and then all of our expeditions have a component

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of telepresence to engage, you know,

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folks from all audiences in the work that we do.

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So this is the majority of what we'll be doing this year.

515
00:27:33.030 --> 00:27:37.440
But in addition to that, we'll also have various

516
00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:40.920
other technologies through the collaboration

517
00:27:40.920 --> 00:27:43.320
of the Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute will be

518
00:27:43.320 --> 00:27:46.770
deploying various other uncrewed surface vehicles,

519
00:27:46.770 --> 00:27:51.420
autonomous vehicles, landers and other tools

520
00:27:51.420 --> 00:27:54.510
to basically get a more holistic view

521
00:27:54.510 --> 00:27:57.543
of the ocean and water column habitats.

522
00:28:00.448 --> 00:28:03.600
And so since this is a Office of National Marine Sanctuary

523
00:28:03.600 --> 00:28:04.770
sponsored webinar series,

524
00:28:04.770 --> 00:28:08.850
I did want to focus the majority here on some of the sites

525
00:28:08.850 --> 00:28:10.860
and some of the places we'll be visiting

526
00:28:10.860 --> 00:28:12.660
over the coming months.

527
00:28:12.660 --> 00:28:15.600
So the red box, so these are all areas

528
00:28:15.600 --> 00:28:18.000
that are either already part

529
00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:20.580
of the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries,

530
00:28:20.580 --> 00:28:21.990
so we'll have two expeditions

531
00:28:21.990 --> 00:28:25.230
to the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa.

532
00:28:25.230 --> 00:28:26.730
We'll also have two expeditions

533
00:28:26.730 --> 00:28:29.130
to the proposed national marine sanctuary,

534
00:28:29.130 --> 00:28:31.320
and the Pacific Remote Islands,

535
00:28:31.320 --> 00:28:36.030
and then ending our field season in a national sanctuary

536
00:28:36.030 --> 00:28:37.260
of a different country.

537
00:28:37.260 --> 00:28:40.530
And Palau will also have two expeditions.

538
00:28:40.530 --> 00:28:42.000
And important to mention

539
00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:45.150
that Palau National Marine Sanctuary also has a core,

540
00:28:45.150 --> 00:28:48.570
close tie to NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries.

541
00:28:48.570 --> 00:28:50.940
And that there is a sister site relationship

542
00:28:50.940 --> 00:28:53.550
between Palau and American Samoa.

543
00:28:53.550 --> 00:28:56.290
And so we're also through our expeditions

544
00:28:57.390 --> 00:29:00.633
advancing this international collaboration.

545
00:29:03.631 --> 00:29:06.806
So I just wanna take here a little bit of time

546
00:29:06.806 --> 00:29:10.140
and talk about the general objectives of the expeditions

547
00:29:10.140 --> 00:29:11.970
to these areas.

548
00:29:11.970 --> 00:29:16.970
So in just three weeks from now, so on July 18th,

549
00:29:17.730 --> 00:29:19.934
exploration vessel Nautilus

550
00:29:19.934 --> 00:29:21.750
will be departing Honolulu and going

551
00:29:21.750 --> 00:29:25.590
to the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument

552
00:29:25.590 --> 00:29:28.350
and to the Jarvis unit of this monument,

553
00:29:28.350 --> 00:29:32.610
in particular for a 20 day expedition,

554
00:29:32.610 --> 00:29:34.170
the Jarvis unit

555
00:29:34.170 --> 00:29:36.120
and the larger Pacific Remote Islands

556
00:29:36.120 --> 00:29:38.011
Marine national Monument.

557
00:29:38.011 --> 00:29:42.000
This is one of the most remote places on earth uninhabited,

558
00:29:42.000 --> 00:29:46.110
and it's an area that we know has some really extraordinary

559
00:29:46.110 --> 00:29:47.733
marine biodiversity.

560
00:29:48.788 --> 00:29:53.400
It has some of the most pristine ecosystems in many ways

561
00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:55.860
because they are far removed from a lot

562
00:29:55.860 --> 00:29:57.840
of the human stressors.

563
00:29:57.840 --> 00:30:00.780
And for a long time this has been recognized

564
00:30:00.780 --> 00:30:03.630
that we have some really extraordinary coral reefs

565
00:30:03.630 --> 00:30:05.490
around these places.

566
00:30:05.490 --> 00:30:09.060
However, the largest area in this monument is,

567
00:30:09.060 --> 00:30:12.750
is really in deep water where we know very little about.

568
00:30:12.750 --> 00:30:17.750
So Jarvis Island has exclusive economic zone that is

569
00:30:17.992 --> 00:30:21.630
over 300,000 square kilometers in size.

570
00:30:21.630 --> 00:30:25.350
And this map shows basically previous information we have

571
00:30:25.350 --> 00:30:27.750
there from previous deep explorations

572
00:30:27.750 --> 00:30:31.050
and included some expeditions done by ourselves,

573
00:30:31.050 --> 00:30:33.150
but also by Okeanos Explorer

574
00:30:33.150 --> 00:30:35.790
and by the Hawaiʻi Underwater Research Laboratory.

575
00:30:35.790 --> 00:30:38.380
And so all those dots are places where there was

576
00:30:40.004 --> 00:30:43.290
a submersible, that captured footage of it,

577
00:30:43.290 --> 00:30:45.900
and then all those gray areas are places

578
00:30:45.900 --> 00:30:47.730
that have been mapped.

579
00:30:47.730 --> 00:30:50.730
But as you can see within that, that white area,

580
00:30:50.730 --> 00:30:55.560
those over 323,000 square kilometers, there's a lot

581
00:30:55.560 --> 00:30:58.020
of places that have not yet been explored.

582
00:30:58.020 --> 00:31:00.720
And just to put this a little bit into context,

583
00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:04.450
now this is bigger than 45 of the US states

584
00:31:05.310 --> 00:31:08.670
where we have virtually no information about.

585
00:31:08.670 --> 00:31:11.190
And so that's really what we on this expedition are going

586
00:31:11.190 --> 00:31:12.690
to set out to do, is to try

587
00:31:12.690 --> 00:31:16.260
to fill in these large blue knowledge gaps.

588
00:31:16.260 --> 00:31:21.150
So this is a 20 day expedition that will start in Honolulu

589
00:31:21.150 --> 00:31:23.910
and end in American Samoa.

590
00:31:23.910 --> 00:31:27.060
So long transits there to get exploration Nautilus to

591
00:31:27.060 --> 00:31:29.820
and from this site there around Jarvis.

592
00:31:29.820 --> 00:31:34.820
All those purple areas are target ROV sites.

593
00:31:35.730 --> 00:31:39.570
So these are areas that, you know, some

594
00:31:39.570 --> 00:31:42.660
of which were mapped by Nautilus last year.

595
00:31:42.660 --> 00:31:46.500
And these are places really interesting in terms

596
00:31:46.500 --> 00:31:49.560
of the overarching theme of this expedition.

597
00:31:49.560 --> 00:31:52.293
The majority of these areas here around Jarvis,

598
00:31:53.310 --> 00:31:55.560
it's about basic characterization,

599
00:31:55.560 --> 00:31:57.360
understanding the biodiversity,

600
00:31:57.360 --> 00:32:01.620
and then also understanding the geology of these places.

601
00:32:01.620 --> 00:32:05.190
So the sea floor around Jarvis Island

602
00:32:05.190 --> 00:32:07.860
is thought to have been created by,

603
00:32:07.860 --> 00:32:10.410
or there's multiple different hypothesis

604
00:32:10.410 --> 00:32:12.390
that it could have been created over various

605
00:32:12.390 --> 00:32:14.340
different hotspots.

606
00:32:14.340 --> 00:32:17.010
And so, you know, collecting samples,

607
00:32:17.010 --> 00:32:18.390
rock samples from this area

608
00:32:18.390 --> 00:32:21.930
and collecting footage of that will help to understand where

609
00:32:21.930 --> 00:32:25.893
and when exactly this seafloor was created.

610
00:32:27.270 --> 00:32:29.190
So July 18th to August 7th.

611
00:32:29.190 --> 00:32:31.020
So I mentioned the vast majority

612
00:32:31.020 --> 00:32:35.280
of this expedition is really focused on offshore sea mounts

613
00:32:35.280 --> 00:32:36.600
around Jarvis

614
00:32:36.600 --> 00:32:40.500
and understanding, you know, the biodiversity on them

615
00:32:40.500 --> 00:32:43.290
and understanding the geology.

616
00:32:43.290 --> 00:32:45.760
However, I also wanted to point out that

617
00:32:46.740 --> 00:32:49.420
some very small component of this expedition

618
00:32:50.316 --> 00:32:52.410
will have other foci.

619
00:32:52.410 --> 00:32:55.410
So on the very first day of the expedition.

620
00:32:55.410 --> 00:32:58.200
So July 18th, we'll actually be conducting

621
00:32:58.200 --> 00:32:59.820
a survey in support

622
00:32:59.820 --> 00:33:03.090
of NOAA's Pacific Island Fishery Science Center to

623
00:33:03.090 --> 00:33:07.650
characterize a precious coral bed right off Oʻahu here.

624
00:33:07.650 --> 00:33:11.940
So we're doing one survey to help delineate

625
00:33:11.940 --> 00:33:16.290
some really exciting deep water coral habitat.

626
00:33:16.290 --> 00:33:18.930
So that will be one day of the expedition.

627
00:33:18.930 --> 00:33:21.030
And then we'll also have,

628
00:33:21.030 --> 00:33:25.620
hopefully at least one day right off Jarvis Island

629
00:33:25.620 --> 00:33:27.717
and Jarvis Island, for those of you

630
00:33:27.717 --> 00:33:30.270
who are coral reef biologists.

631
00:33:30.270 --> 00:33:34.530
Now this is a place that several years ago was in the news

632
00:33:34.530 --> 00:33:35.610
because it experienced one

633
00:33:35.610 --> 00:33:39.690
of the most severe bleaching events anywhere on earth.

634
00:33:39.690 --> 00:33:43.260
And, you know, some really devastating decline

635
00:33:43.260 --> 00:33:45.660
in some of the coral reefs, but a lot of

636
00:33:45.660 --> 00:33:49.950
that area has not been surveyed in several years.

637
00:33:49.950 --> 00:33:53.437
And so we'll try to do at least one ROV survey that,

638
00:33:53.437 --> 00:33:55.200
you know, starts in the deep

639
00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:59.340
and then hopefully gets us into shallow habitat

640
00:33:59.340 --> 00:34:02.970
to try to quantify how these reefs have recovered.

641
00:34:02.970 --> 00:34:05.580
And then last, but not least, we'll also

642
00:34:05.580 --> 00:34:08.490
on the last day of the expedition in collaboration

643
00:34:08.490 --> 00:34:11.070
with the North Pacific Island Fishery Science Center

644
00:34:11.070 --> 00:34:14.580
and the NOAA cetacean research program will be deploying an

645
00:34:14.580 --> 00:34:19.580
acoustic receiver off American Samoa to help collect data

646
00:34:20.130 --> 00:34:22.260
to monitor marine mammals.

647
00:34:22.260 --> 00:34:25.250
American Samoa is known to be an area,

648
00:34:25.250 --> 00:34:27.900
an important marine mammal area

649
00:34:27.900 --> 00:34:29.880
for humpback whales and other whales.

650
00:34:29.880 --> 00:34:34.880
So we'll be deploying a receiver to collect data on that.

651
00:34:35.490 --> 00:34:39.780
So this is a very exciting first NOAA funded expedition

652
00:34:39.780 --> 00:34:40.830
of the season

653
00:34:40.830 --> 00:34:43.170
and it'll be followed by several others.

654
00:34:43.170 --> 00:34:46.500
So then in August and September,

655
00:34:46.500 --> 00:34:49.710
we'll have two expeditions to American Samoa.

656
00:34:49.710 --> 00:34:51.150
This is for those folks

657
00:34:51.150 --> 00:34:53.250
that are not from the Pacific Island region.

658
00:34:53.250 --> 00:34:57.280
So this is the southernmost territory on the US jurisdiction

659
00:34:58.200 --> 00:35:02.820
basically almost halfway between Hawaiʻi and New Zealand.

660
00:35:02.820 --> 00:35:05.970
Very exciting place known

661
00:35:05.970 --> 00:35:08.933
for its tremendous biodiversity.

662
00:35:08.933 --> 00:35:10.950
A lot of, you know, really,

663
00:35:10.950 --> 00:35:13.920
really stunning biodiversity both above

664
00:35:13.920 --> 00:35:15.690
and below the sea surface.

665
00:35:15.690 --> 00:35:19.380
However, it's also, when we look at the deep waters

666
00:35:19.380 --> 00:35:22.380
of this region, it's similarly very unexplored.

667
00:35:22.380 --> 00:35:25.110
This map shows previous explorations in the region,

668
00:35:25.110 --> 00:35:30.110
very similar to Jarvis, the majority of this seafloor

669
00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:32.460
around American Samoa.

670
00:35:32.460 --> 00:35:35.130
So all those places in blue where you don't have dots

671
00:35:35.130 --> 00:35:39.240
or you don't have those gray mapping lines are places

672
00:35:39.240 --> 00:35:42.432
where we know virtually nothing about.

673
00:35:42.432 --> 00:35:45.090
And this includes areas like the National Marine Sanctuary

674
00:35:45.090 --> 00:35:46.986
of American Samoa.

675
00:35:46.986 --> 00:35:51.300
And so a part of our mission on during those expeditions

676
00:35:51.300 --> 00:35:53.725
is to help collect more data

677
00:35:53.725 --> 00:35:58.560
about the deep water resources around American Samoa.

678
00:35:58.560 --> 00:36:01.530
So we'll actually have two back-to-back expeditions

679
00:36:01.530 --> 00:36:03.420
to American Samoa.

680
00:36:03.420 --> 00:36:07.920
The first is really focused is a technology demonstration

681
00:36:07.920 --> 00:36:10.830
and technology utilization will be deploying various

682
00:36:10.830 --> 00:36:13.350
different autonomous vehicles

683
00:36:13.350 --> 00:36:15.653
and uncrewed surface vehicles

684
00:36:15.653 --> 00:36:18.840
and landers to this is building on three years

685
00:36:18.840 --> 00:36:21.930
of a very wonderful collaboration

686
00:36:21.930 --> 00:36:24.780
through the Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute.

687
00:36:24.780 --> 00:36:28.035
And we'll be deploying all these assets here

688
00:36:28.035 --> 00:36:29.670
from University of New Hampshire.

689
00:36:29.670 --> 00:36:34.170
That red vehicle on the top left Drake's mesobot

690
00:36:34.170 --> 00:36:36.630
an autonomous underwater vehicle developed

691
00:36:36.630 --> 00:36:39.810
and operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

692
00:36:39.810 --> 00:36:43.260
And then the top right is a lander developed

693
00:36:43.260 --> 00:36:45.240
at the University of Rhode Island.

694
00:36:45.240 --> 00:36:49.380
And so we'll be deploying all these assets collaboratively

695
00:36:49.380 --> 00:36:53.040
and really looking mostly on seamounts.

696
00:36:53.040 --> 00:36:56.610
So with draft kind of plan that was developed

697
00:36:56.610 --> 00:36:59.400
with input with many stakeholders in American Samoa,

698
00:36:59.400 --> 00:37:03.330
looking at various seamounts around American Samoa.

699
00:37:03.330 --> 00:37:06.870
And really to try to understand the importance

700
00:37:06.870 --> 00:37:08.400
of these seamounts.

701
00:37:08.400 --> 00:37:11.130
Seamounts have for a long time been known

702
00:37:11.130 --> 00:37:15.810
to be really, they're commonly referred to as hotspot

703
00:37:15.810 --> 00:37:18.720
of biodiversity because in comparison

704
00:37:18.720 --> 00:37:19.863
to the surrounding ocean,

705
00:37:19.863 --> 00:37:23.400
they typically have a lot more marine life on them

706
00:37:23.400 --> 00:37:26.100
and not just growing on the seamount itself,

707
00:37:26.100 --> 00:37:29.280
but also aggregating above and in the water column.

708
00:37:29.280 --> 00:37:32.700
So we'll be basically deploying all these assets in

709
00:37:32.700 --> 00:37:36.120
and around seamounts to try to understand the effects

710
00:37:36.120 --> 00:37:39.600
of the seamounts on the ocean life.

711
00:37:39.600 --> 00:37:43.170
So that's a 18 day expedition in August,

712
00:37:43.170 --> 00:37:44.970
and that is then gonna be followed

713
00:37:44.970 --> 00:37:49.890
by a 23 day expedition in September that will then use

714
00:37:49.890 --> 00:37:52.110
our ROVs in collaboration

715
00:37:52.110 --> 00:37:53.490
with an autonomous vehicles

716
00:37:53.490 --> 00:37:57.420
from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, AOV Sentry.

717
00:37:57.420 --> 00:38:00.360
And we'll be exploring a variety of habitats in

718
00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:04.500
and around American Samoa.

719
00:38:04.500 --> 00:38:07.800
And important to mention here, AOV Sentry,

720
00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:10.050
this is a 6,000 meter ROV

721
00:38:10.050 --> 00:38:14.010
and then will allow us to look at the abyssal sea floor,

722
00:38:14.010 --> 00:38:17.760
so places where we know virtually nothing about.

723
00:38:17.760 --> 00:38:20.550
So just collecting baseline data about

724
00:38:20.550 --> 00:38:23.373
what the sea floor is are found in this place.

725
00:38:24.360 --> 00:38:27.420
A couple things to mention about this expedition is gonna be

726
00:38:27.420 --> 00:38:29.910
a highly interdisciplinary expedition

727
00:38:29.910 --> 00:38:33.720
with many different kind of foci,

728
00:38:33.720 --> 00:38:36.420
but several of our dives will be focused on

729
00:38:36.420 --> 00:38:38.880
by Vailulu Seamount.

730
00:38:38.880 --> 00:38:42.150
This is an extraordinarily interesting place.

731
00:38:42.150 --> 00:38:44.280
This is basically the hotspot

732
00:38:44.280 --> 00:38:45.900
above which all islands

733
00:38:45.900 --> 00:38:49.020
in the Samoan Archipelago were formed.

734
00:38:49.020 --> 00:38:53.400
So it is still growing seamount that is currently at a depth

735
00:38:53.400 --> 00:38:55.230
of about 600 meters.

736
00:38:55.230 --> 00:38:59.520
And this is a highly dynamic sea floor area,

737
00:38:59.520 --> 00:39:03.750
to give you a sense, it's been mapped over the years,

738
00:39:03.750 --> 00:39:06.870
you know, several subsequent expeditions have mapped it

739
00:39:06.870 --> 00:39:09.990
and in a period of about four years

740
00:39:09.990 --> 00:39:12.480
or under four years, that seamount

741
00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:15.900
and a caldera within it had grown by 300 meters.

742
00:39:15.900 --> 00:39:19.050
So, you know, over three football fields that, you know,

743
00:39:19.050 --> 00:39:21.289
grew in just under four years.

744
00:39:21.289 --> 00:39:23.160
So highly dynamic sea floor where,

745
00:39:23.160 --> 00:39:26.040
where new sea floor is basically being created

746
00:39:26.040 --> 00:39:29.310
and some extraordinary biodiversity associated it.

747
00:39:29.310 --> 00:39:33.930
So we'll have several of days focused on those seamounts,

748
00:39:33.930 --> 00:39:36.630
but we'll also be exploring a variety of other seamounts

749
00:39:36.630 --> 00:39:39.180
around it that haven't been explored.

750
00:39:39.180 --> 00:39:43.530
And then we also have a smaller component

751
00:39:43.530 --> 00:39:47.250
of this expedition is to look for what is probably one

752
00:39:47.250 --> 00:39:50.643
of the most significant underwater cultural heritage sites.

753
00:39:51.928 --> 00:39:54.900
A sea plane that was lost in the late '30s,

754
00:39:54.900 --> 00:39:56.880
the Samoan Clipper.

755
00:39:56.880 --> 00:40:01.880
This was a historically significant event as the sea plane

756
00:40:03.690 --> 00:40:06.510
was basically trying to set up a new mail route

757
00:40:06.510 --> 00:40:08.370
between Hawaiʻi and New Zealand

758
00:40:08.370 --> 00:40:10.710
and was lost just off Tutuila.

759
00:40:10.710 --> 00:40:13.770
And we'll be doing some explorations in hopes

760
00:40:13.770 --> 00:40:17.400
of locating this historically significant site.

761
00:40:17.400 --> 00:40:19.890
And then we'll also have about five days

762
00:40:19.890 --> 00:40:23.250
really focused on the abyssal plain.

763
00:40:23.250 --> 00:40:25.444
This is a habitat that has,

764
00:40:25.444 --> 00:40:27.780
has never really been imaged in American Samoa.

765
00:40:27.780 --> 00:40:31.080
So collecting some very basic baseline information

766
00:40:31.080 --> 00:40:34.263
to understand what lives on the abyssal plain.

767
00:40:35.520 --> 00:40:38.950
And then last, but certainly not least, in October

768
00:40:39.916 --> 00:40:43.170
to November, we'll have two expeditions to Palau.

769
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These are funded also by NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration

770
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and Research, but funded really in response

771
00:40:50.220 --> 00:40:51.240
to a commitment made

772
00:40:51.240 --> 00:40:53.670
by the US government several years ago

773
00:40:53.670 --> 00:40:56.490
at the Ocean Conference to help map

774
00:40:56.490 --> 00:40:59.760
and characterize the Palau National Marine Sanctuary.

775
00:40:59.760 --> 00:41:02.850
Palau as the other areas that are mentioned

776
00:41:02.850 --> 00:41:07.590
that I mentioned previously is really an extraordinary place

777
00:41:07.590 --> 00:41:10.290
known largely among divers as one of

778
00:41:10.290 --> 00:41:13.210
the seven wonders of the underwater world.

779
00:41:13.210 --> 00:41:16.351
It is really an extraordinary place

780
00:41:16.351 --> 00:41:20.790
where you can see some of the most stunning biodiversity,

781
00:41:20.790 --> 00:41:24.150
however, very much like the places that I mentioned

782
00:41:24.150 --> 00:41:27.300
before, if we look at the deep area,

783
00:41:27.300 --> 00:41:30.570
we have virtually nothing known about.

784
00:41:30.570 --> 00:41:32.610
So there have been just a couple expeditions.

785
00:41:32.610 --> 00:41:36.690
Most recently National Geographic did an expedition

786
00:41:36.690 --> 00:41:40.620
that included some deep water drop cam work

787
00:41:40.620 --> 00:41:42.090
and there's been several expeditions

788
00:41:42.090 --> 00:41:43.890
that also mapped the sea floor,

789
00:41:43.890 --> 00:41:47.400
but yet again, we have a large area that, you know,

790
00:41:47.400 --> 00:41:50.010
where we have virtually nothing about.

791
00:41:50.010 --> 00:41:52.260
So we've been over the last year

792
00:41:52.260 --> 00:41:54.450
or so, meeting with various stakeholders

793
00:41:54.450 --> 00:41:56.250
and putting together

794
00:41:56.250 --> 00:41:58.800
what an expedition plan could look like.

795
00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:00.780
This is very, very draft.

796
00:42:00.780 --> 00:42:03.150
We're still, you know, four months away from this.

797
00:42:03.150 --> 00:42:06.570
So the next four months we'll be refining the plan

798
00:42:06.570 --> 00:42:11.280
and basically selecting a few sites

799
00:42:11.280 --> 00:42:15.810
within all those pink polygons

800
00:42:15.810 --> 00:42:18.813
and around it for further exploration.

801
00:42:19.710 --> 00:42:23.910
So yeah, this is gonna be in October through November 22nd,

802
00:42:23.910 --> 00:42:27.870
exciting work to explore the Palau National Marine Sanctuary

803
00:42:27.870 --> 00:42:29.520
and to use this work also

804
00:42:29.520 --> 00:42:31.740
to advance the sister site collaboration

805
00:42:31.740 --> 00:42:33.573
with the American Samoa.

806
00:42:35.220 --> 00:42:38.310
So last but certainly not least, I just wanted to,

807
00:42:38.310 --> 00:42:41.910
to end a little bit on a call to action about how each

808
00:42:41.910 --> 00:42:43.920
and every one of you might be able

809
00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:47.460
to participate in these expeditions.

810
00:42:47.460 --> 00:42:50.280
So the question here is who can participate?

811
00:42:50.280 --> 00:42:52.290
And the answer is really everyone,

812
00:42:52.290 --> 00:42:53.760
everyone that has an interest

813
00:42:53.760 --> 00:42:56.793
and that has some way to access the internet.

814
00:42:58.736 --> 00:43:01.230
So I'm showing here a screenshot of our website

815
00:43:01.230 --> 00:43:05.722
and if you get one thing out of this call, hope that you

816
00:43:05.722 --> 00:43:08.400
spend a little bit time on our website.

817
00:43:08.400 --> 00:43:11.280
It's a wonderful gateway to all kinds

818
00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:13.110
of information about ocean exploration.

819
00:43:13.110 --> 00:43:17.100
So Nautiluslive.org, the link is there.

820
00:43:17.100 --> 00:43:19.200
So if you go to our website,

821
00:43:19.200 --> 00:43:22.980
and this is a screenshot just taken a few days ago.

822
00:43:22.980 --> 00:43:26.370
It basically, if we are exploring, you will see

823
00:43:26.370 --> 00:43:28.770
what we are looking at on the sea floor.

824
00:43:28.770 --> 00:43:31.950
There's a link to our direct channel where

825
00:43:31.950 --> 00:43:35.790
we have the live stream, you can, there's a map there

826
00:43:35.790 --> 00:43:38.850
that shows you kind of contextual information where we are,

827
00:43:38.850 --> 00:43:41.190
a few stats of where are,

828
00:43:41.190 --> 00:43:45.420
and also raise your attention to that box in the bottom

829
00:43:45.420 --> 00:43:47.160
of the screen where it says, send a question

830
00:43:47.160 --> 00:43:48.480
or a message to the team.

831
00:43:48.480 --> 00:43:50.760
You know, anyone can basically log onto a website

832
00:43:50.760 --> 00:43:52.830
and send a question.

833
00:43:52.830 --> 00:43:55.590
And we have several educators onboard that, you know,

834
00:43:55.590 --> 00:43:57.540
they basically review the questions

835
00:43:57.540 --> 00:43:59.934
as they come in and answer them.

836
00:43:59.934 --> 00:44:03.270
So this is a great way to kind of just add your interest

837
00:44:03.270 --> 00:44:04.980
and at your leisure when you have time

838
00:44:04.980 --> 00:44:06.690
to see what's happening.

839
00:44:06.690 --> 00:44:08.070
If you wanna ask a question

840
00:44:08.070 --> 00:44:10.050
to the team on board, you can do that.

841
00:44:10.050 --> 00:44:11.650
There's multiple channels there.

842
00:44:12.578 --> 00:44:15.250
So this is a great way to kind of start

843
00:44:16.260 --> 00:44:17.880
wetting your appetite a little bit.

844
00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:22.080
But within our website there's many additional resources

845
00:44:22.080 --> 00:44:23.790
and our very talented

846
00:44:23.790 --> 00:44:25.710
and hardworking education outreach team

847
00:44:25.710 --> 00:44:28.833
does a tremendous work of engaging folks.

848
00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:32.790
So there's the tag there, NautilusLive.org/education

849
00:44:32.790 --> 00:44:35.100
is a wonderful tool, gateway

850
00:44:35.100 --> 00:44:37.080
to all kinds of information.

851
00:44:37.080 --> 00:44:41.130
There is many different education resources.

852
00:44:41.130 --> 00:44:45.360
So this include highlight videos, blogs,

853
00:44:45.360 --> 00:44:49.920
classroom activities, K through 12 educational resources,

854
00:44:49.920 --> 00:44:53.640
a lot of things you can also request live

855
00:44:53.640 --> 00:44:55.590
ship to shore interaction.

856
00:44:55.590 --> 00:44:58.380
So if you are an educator, a teacher,

857
00:44:58.380 --> 00:45:01.860
or just an interested scientist that might have

858
00:45:01.860 --> 00:45:03.270
a captive audience,

859
00:45:03.270 --> 00:45:06.660
you can on a first come first basis request a live ship

860
00:45:06.660 --> 00:45:09.540
to shore interaction, which is in essence a Zoom call

861
00:45:09.540 --> 00:45:13.080
or a Google meet where you can then call the ship

862
00:45:13.080 --> 00:45:15.450
and have an interaction about what,

863
00:45:15.450 --> 00:45:18.360
and basically ask the scientists and engineers

864
00:45:18.360 --> 00:45:20.550
and students any questions.

865
00:45:20.550 --> 00:45:24.720
It's a great way to kind of get a bit more familiar

866
00:45:24.720 --> 00:45:26.280
with what we're doing

867
00:45:26.280 --> 00:45:28.830
We also will be sailing in all the expeditions

868
00:45:28.830 --> 00:45:31.590
that I mentioned with interns.

869
00:45:31.590 --> 00:45:36.234
So these that work side by side with folks on board

870
00:45:36.234 --> 00:45:39.030
as well as with science communication fellows.

871
00:45:39.030 --> 00:45:41.430
So these are professional educators that sailed.

872
00:45:42.349 --> 00:45:45.780
Important thing to mention that a lot of these

873
00:45:45.780 --> 00:45:50.070
roles are also being filled by folks from the geographies

874
00:45:50.070 --> 00:45:52.350
that we'll be sailing with.

875
00:45:52.350 --> 00:45:54.210
So very excited that we have, you know,

876
00:45:54.210 --> 00:45:57.330
many folks from American Samoa and Palau

877
00:45:57.330 --> 00:46:00.540
and other places that will be sailing on Nautilus.

878
00:46:00.540 --> 00:46:02.070
And last but not least,

879
00:46:02.070 --> 00:46:04.230
you can also follow us on social media,

880
00:46:04.230 --> 00:46:06.030
six different channels,

881
00:46:06.030 --> 00:46:09.963
a lot of great updates there coming in routinely.

882
00:46:11.670 --> 00:46:15.444
For those of you who have more kind of science inclined

883
00:46:15.444 --> 00:46:18.660
and have a little bit more kind of dedicated time to give

884
00:46:18.660 --> 00:46:19.710
to these expeditions.

885
00:46:19.710 --> 00:46:23.550
We also have, as our Scientists Ashore program,

886
00:46:23.550 --> 00:46:27.570
now these are folks that now have some kind of knowledge

887
00:46:27.570 --> 00:46:30.323
that is applicable to the expedition.

888
00:46:30.323 --> 00:46:34.710
So, you know, anyone can sign up for a scientist ashore.

889
00:46:34.710 --> 00:46:38.640
And basically what this will give you now is not just

890
00:46:38.640 --> 00:46:41.790
the ability to access all of our, you know, kind

891
00:46:41.790 --> 00:46:44.490
of one way streams to the ship,

892
00:46:44.490 --> 00:46:45.660
but it basically allow you

893
00:46:45.660 --> 00:46:48.690
to have two way communications kind of in real time

894
00:46:48.690 --> 00:46:52.200
with the team on board, Scientists Ashore are integral

895
00:46:52.200 --> 00:46:57.180
to helping in planning and executing our missions.

896
00:46:57.180 --> 00:46:58.350
When you sign up,

897
00:46:58.350 --> 00:47:01.650
you will start receiving daily updates about

898
00:47:01.650 --> 00:47:04.050
what we're doing and our upcoming plans.

899
00:47:04.050 --> 00:47:05.970
You'll also have a chat

900
00:47:05.970 --> 00:47:07.980
and two-way communication tool to talk

901
00:47:07.980 --> 00:47:10.080
with the scientists on shore

902
00:47:10.080 --> 00:47:11.130
and you'll also be able

903
00:47:11.130 --> 00:47:14.460
to access all the real time data streams

904
00:47:14.460 --> 00:47:15.570
and that way kind of help

905
00:47:15.570 --> 00:47:18.243
with guiding expedition activities.

906
00:47:19.530 --> 00:47:24.120
I just wanna point out, as I mentioned that now a big part

907
00:47:24.120 --> 00:47:26.850
of what we are trying to do is collaboration,

908
00:47:26.850 --> 00:47:31.083
not just while we are out at sea, but also afterwards.

909
00:47:32.418 --> 00:47:34.560
So a big part of, you know, what our mission is

910
00:47:34.560 --> 00:47:37.680
at the Ocean Exploration Trust is to, you know, plan

911
00:47:37.680 --> 00:47:39.030
and execute these missions.

912
00:47:39.030 --> 00:47:41.970
So they help as many scientists and as many managers

913
00:47:41.970 --> 00:47:46.110
and as many people really as possible to do that.

914
00:47:46.110 --> 00:47:50.430
We put all of our data in places where people can access it

915
00:47:50.430 --> 00:47:52.860
and for those of you who might be graduate students

916
00:47:52.860 --> 00:47:56.667
or scientists and might be have interest to use data.

917
00:47:56.667 --> 00:47:59.940
Now we have 15 years of expeditions

918
00:47:59.940 --> 00:48:01.410
that have gone all around the world.

919
00:48:01.410 --> 00:48:04.740
There's a great treasure chest of data that is waiting

920
00:48:04.740 --> 00:48:07.110
to be explored

921
00:48:07.110 --> 00:48:09.990
and many discoveries are basically

922
00:48:09.990 --> 00:48:12.870
still hidden within archived data.

923
00:48:12.870 --> 00:48:16.620
So there you can archive it from various different resources

924
00:48:16.620 --> 00:48:20.250
here and it typically takes us in several months

925
00:48:20.250 --> 00:48:22.473
after expedition to archive those.

926
00:48:23.310 --> 00:48:25.410
If you're a scientist that has some kind

927
00:48:25.410 --> 00:48:27.360
of a time sensitive thing,

928
00:48:27.360 --> 00:48:29.397
you can always request data from us.

929
00:48:29.397 --> 00:48:32.673
And all these links are also on our website.

930
00:48:34.290 --> 00:48:37.530
So last but certainly not least, I hope I convince you

931
00:48:37.530 --> 00:48:39.180
that there is a way for each

932
00:48:39.180 --> 00:48:43.326
and every one of you to participate in our expeditions here

933
00:48:43.326 --> 00:48:44.587
over the next several months.

934
00:48:44.587 --> 00:48:46.950
So there are many different ways you can all visit our

935
00:48:46.950 --> 00:48:50.220
website and kind of browse at your leisure,

936
00:48:50.220 --> 00:48:53.100
our archived resources including archived data

937
00:48:53.100 --> 00:48:55.563
and curated lists of educational tools.

938
00:48:56.700 --> 00:48:58.710
I'll ask our hosts here

939
00:48:58.710 --> 00:49:01.120
to start putting a couple links into the chat

940
00:49:02.277 --> 00:49:05.100
of different ways how you can engage on our website.

941
00:49:05.100 --> 00:49:07.563
There's also draft plans that provide a little bit

942
00:49:07.563 --> 00:49:11.070
of a more background of what our expeditions are

943
00:49:11.070 --> 00:49:14.520
and that would hopefully then entice you to sign up

944
00:49:14.520 --> 00:49:16.500
as a scientist ashore.

945
00:49:16.500 --> 00:49:19.680
There's a link there for you to know, sign up as that.

946
00:49:19.680 --> 00:49:22.120
And as I mentioned, what that will trigger

947
00:49:22.954 --> 00:49:24.330
is you'll start getting more regular updates

948
00:49:24.330 --> 00:49:26.850
on these expeditions, including invites

949
00:49:26.850 --> 00:49:29.250
to science planning webinars where we kind

950
00:49:29.250 --> 00:49:31.740
of plan our operations.

951
00:49:31.740 --> 00:49:33.050
If you are an educator

952
00:49:33.050 --> 00:49:36.000
or a teacher, you can also request our ship

953
00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:37.230
to shore interactions

954
00:49:37.230 --> 00:49:40.050
and have intimate conversations with scientists on board

955
00:49:40.050 --> 00:49:43.380
and use that perhaps to engage your students, your staff

956
00:49:43.380 --> 00:49:45.630
or other folks that you wanna

957
00:49:45.630 --> 00:49:48.060
give some exposure to our work.

958
00:49:48.060 --> 00:49:50.587
And then last but not least, you can, you know,

959
00:49:50.587 --> 00:49:53.223
follow us on social media.

960
00:49:54.120 --> 00:49:56.940
And with that, I just want to thank all of you

961
00:49:56.940 --> 00:49:59.670
for taking the time to learn a little bit about

962
00:49:59.670 --> 00:50:01.320
our exciting plans for the year

963
00:50:01.320 --> 00:50:04.170
and particularly thank Office of National Marine Sanctuaries

964
00:50:04.170 --> 00:50:06.150
for hosting us.

965
00:50:06.150 --> 00:50:09.693
With that, I'll take any questions if I have time.

966
00:50:10.980 --> 00:50:13.327
<v ->Awesome, thanks Dan.</v>

967
00:50:13.327 --> 00:50:17.790
That was very informative and lots of stuff going on.

968
00:50:17.790 --> 00:50:20.880
It is a really great opportunity for

969
00:50:20.880 --> 00:50:24.940
such a diverse audience to get engaged with

970
00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:30.800
this next next era of ocean exploration.

971
00:50:30.824 --> 00:50:32.273
It's really, really fascinating.

972
00:50:33.633 --> 00:50:34.466
And yeah, we have a number

973
00:50:34.466 --> 00:50:36.242
of questions for you.

974
00:50:36.242 --> 00:50:37.380
I'll start Claire and I'll swap back

975
00:50:37.380 --> 00:50:40.410
and forth between the questions.

976
00:50:40.410 --> 00:50:43.173
The first one's kind of a, just a feely question,

977
00:50:44.141 --> 00:50:45.870
like how have the sea conditions been like

978
00:50:45.870 --> 00:50:47.733
during the current voyages?

979
00:50:49.072 --> 00:50:50.090
<v ->Yeah, great question.</v>

980
00:50:50.090 --> 00:50:55.020
So we just had a 21 day expedition of British Columbia.

981
00:50:55.020 --> 00:50:58.440
We did have about four days where it was quite rough

982
00:50:58.440 --> 00:51:01.560
and we had to change our plans a little bit,

983
00:51:01.560 --> 00:51:03.560
but that is kind of the name of the game

984
00:51:05.236 --> 00:51:07.290
and that's something that we try to plan as best

985
00:51:07.290 --> 00:51:12.240
as possible, but as you could probably gather from

986
00:51:12.240 --> 00:51:15.690
that map, we are going to places in the central of Pacific

987
00:51:15.690 --> 00:51:19.800
where there's really no island, no place to hide behind.

988
00:51:19.800 --> 00:51:21.330
And so we do our best to try

989
00:51:21.330 --> 00:51:23.310
to plan these expeditions at the time of the year

990
00:51:23.310 --> 00:51:25.382
where weather is best.

991
00:51:25.382 --> 00:51:28.650
But yeah, weather is a big factor of

992
00:51:28.650 --> 00:51:30.213
the day-to-day life at sea.

993
00:51:32.700 --> 00:51:34.239
<v ->For sure.</v>

994
00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:35.373
Well, I'm gonna jump

995
00:51:35.373 --> 00:51:36.600
to a really fun comment that just came in.

996
00:51:36.600 --> 00:51:40.680
So someone's been hooked on Nautilus Live for over a decade.

997
00:51:40.680 --> 00:51:42.960
They can't even calculate how many hours they've spent on

998
00:51:42.960 --> 00:51:46.590
the computer part of it, having met Dr. Robert Ballard,

999
00:51:46.590 --> 00:51:50.730
the head guy of Ocean Exploration Trust, once upon a time,

1000
00:51:50.730 --> 00:51:52.743
thinks it's an amazing organization,

1001
00:51:54.240 --> 00:51:57.570
has some feedback like maybe there should be some

1002
00:51:57.570 --> 00:52:02.010
Ocean Exploration Trust EV Nautilus merch,

1003
00:52:02.010 --> 00:52:05.190
he would've been buying annual patches, t-shirts,

1004
00:52:05.190 --> 00:52:09.120
crew shirts, et cetera as merch.

1005
00:52:09.120 --> 00:52:13.740
So consider that, a message from a fan

1006
00:52:13.740 --> 00:52:16.080
that's saying we want some stuff.

1007
00:52:16.080 --> 00:52:16.913
Yeah.

1008
00:52:21.450 --> 00:52:23.040
I guess I'll go to,

1009
00:52:23.040 --> 00:52:24.810
there's some other questions several about,

1010
00:52:24.810 --> 00:52:25.860
and you kind of touched on it,

1011
00:52:25.860 --> 00:52:28.230
but maybe you can go into a little more depth,

1012
00:52:28.230 --> 00:52:31.830
like choosing the sites to do the expeditions.

1013
00:52:31.830 --> 00:52:34.380
You know, some of it's based on who's funding what,

1014
00:52:34.380 --> 00:52:37.860
but like how do you decide where in the ocean to dive

1015
00:52:37.860 --> 00:52:39.690
to do your research?

1016
00:52:39.690 --> 00:52:41.010
<v ->Yeah, great question.</v>

1017
00:52:41.010 --> 00:52:44.593
Thanks for that question and for layering it Claire.

1018
00:52:44.593 --> 00:52:49.593
So, kind of broad strokes obviously, we align with our,

1019
00:52:51.270 --> 00:52:52.380
with our sponsors and,

1020
00:52:52.380 --> 00:52:55.440
and luckily a lot of our work is funded

1021
00:52:55.440 --> 00:52:58.170
by a very flexible sponsors sponsor in terms

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of NOAA's ocean exploration and research

1023
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and whose mandate is really to go places that haven't

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yet been explored

1025
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and as I, you know, started off most

1026
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of the ocean really falls within that space.

1027
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So that gives us a lot of flexibility.

1028
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We then, as a first step, typically about a year

1029
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and a half to two years ahead of our missions, we have kind

1030
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of the broad geographies, kind of the general areas

1031
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where we anticipate having an expedition

1032
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and that starts the process.

1033
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And then basically what we do is a tiered approach

1034
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to basically try to collect as much information

1035
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so that we design these expeditions

1036
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to help know the larger community.

1037
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So about a year out from an expedition,

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we'll release a call for science input.

1039
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This is in essence a Google form

1040
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where anyone can then within our

1041
00:53:51.480 --> 00:53:54.570
proposed operating areas can propose, you know, areas

1042
00:53:54.570 --> 00:53:57.780
where they think we should dive on for whatever reason

1043
00:53:57.780 --> 00:53:59.940
or we should map for whatever reason

1044
00:53:59.940 --> 00:54:02.820
or the types of samples we wanna collect

1045
00:54:02.820 --> 00:54:04.830
or integrating a technology.

1046
00:54:04.830 --> 00:54:09.210
So it's really a way for anyone to propose sites.

1047
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And then in addition to that, we have a series of kind

1048
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of focused meetings with stakeholders

1049
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to collect additional information.

1050
00:54:17.280 --> 00:54:21.090
So we just went through this process for American Samoa.

1051
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So in collaboration with the National Marine Sanctuary

1052
00:54:23.670 --> 00:54:27.270
of American Samoa, we hosted a stakeholder workshop

1053
00:54:27.270 --> 00:54:31.110
where we basically gathered folks from different sectors,

1054
00:54:31.110 --> 00:54:35.010
from government, from academia, from the private sector

1055
00:54:35.010 --> 00:54:37.640
to try to understand, you know, where, you know,

1056
00:54:37.640 --> 00:54:40.890
if we have a couple months in American Samoa

1057
00:54:40.890 --> 00:54:44.760
and we wanna explore unsurveyed areas, where can we help

1058
00:54:44.760 --> 00:54:46.740
as most people as possible.

1059
00:54:46.740 --> 00:54:49.860
So it's a kind of community driven process.

1060
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And I'll put a plug out for folks

1061
00:54:51.750 --> 00:54:55.380
that wanna learn more about this, there is

1062
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a One NOAA seminar scheduled on July 16th.

1063
00:54:59.880 --> 00:55:02.820
I'll touch upon this in more detail,

1064
00:55:02.820 --> 00:55:04.620
but the short of this answer is that

1065
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it's a community driven process that starts

1066
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over a year before our expeditions,

1067
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and we really try to design these expeditions

1068
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so they help the broader community.

1069
00:55:17.148 --> 00:55:20.970
You know, we are not a know PI driven institution

1070
00:55:20.970 --> 00:55:24.000
and that our expeditions are not just trying to tailor

1071
00:55:24.000 --> 00:55:26.640
to the scientific interests of whoever happens

1072
00:55:26.640 --> 00:55:28.410
to be on board,

1073
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but really trying to run these expeditions to the help

1074
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as many scientists, managers and ocean stewards as possible.

1075
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<v ->Great.</v>

1076
00:55:38.663 --> 00:55:40.970
Yeah, that's an awesome mission.

1077
00:55:40.970 --> 00:55:43.261
We have time for one more question,

1078
00:55:43.261 --> 00:55:46.680
but one of the deep sea groupies,

1079
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Michelle Shendala just shared

1080
00:55:49.170 --> 00:55:52.440
that her scent seeking dog will be helping

1081
00:55:52.440 --> 00:55:55.500
to do biosecurity scans on the Nautilus

1082
00:55:55.500 --> 00:55:57.540
before she leaves port.

1083
00:55:57.540 --> 00:55:58.990
That's a really good topic

1084
00:56:00.239 --> 00:56:02.070
because yeah, we do send these vessels all over the place

1085
00:56:02.070 --> 00:56:04.380
and you know, way back in the day they would go to a place

1086
00:56:04.380 --> 00:56:06.450
that actually intentionally introduced

1087
00:56:06.450 --> 00:56:07.920
goats or rats or whatever.

1088
00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:10.140
So they had some food when they came back,

1089
00:56:10.140 --> 00:56:12.765
but we've gotten a lot smarter than that

1090
00:56:12.765 --> 00:56:13.920
and try not to introduce anything.

1091
00:56:13.920 --> 00:56:17.550
So this biosecurity is really important

1092
00:56:17.550 --> 00:56:20.220
and utilizing dogs to do that is super cool.

1093
00:56:20.220 --> 00:56:22.890
So thanks for that comment Michelle.

1094
00:56:22.890 --> 00:56:26.923
And the last question is, how deep do your ROVs go?

1095
00:56:28.860 --> 00:56:30.750
<v ->So yeah, excellent question</v>

1096
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and we have multiple different configurations now,

1097
00:56:34.590 --> 00:56:38.880
typically, we dive with a two body ROV system.

1098
00:56:38.880 --> 00:56:42.840
So the basically two ROVs that dive in tandem,

1099
00:56:42.840 --> 00:56:46.710
ROV Hercules, so the ROV that I showed most images

1100
00:56:46.710 --> 00:56:49.320
that were in this talk, that vehicle is rated

1101
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to 4,000 meters, about 13,000 feet.

1102
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We also have a couple other vehicles that are rated

1103
00:56:56.790 --> 00:57:00.840
to 6,000 meters or close to 20,000 feet.

1104
00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:04.710
So the deepest we can dive is to 6,000 meters

1105
00:57:04.710 --> 00:57:08.220
and that really covers 95% of the sea floor.

1106
00:57:08.220 --> 00:57:10.900
There are several places that it gets deeper

1107
00:57:11.873 --> 00:57:14.010
and these are the trench habitats that are outside of

1108
00:57:14.010 --> 00:57:15.990
what we can dive on.

1109
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The wonderful thing is through our partnerships, including

1110
00:57:18.990 --> 00:57:21.360
through the Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute,

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00:57:21.360 --> 00:57:24.870
we are deploying various landers that are rated

1112
00:57:24.870 --> 00:57:26.850
to full ocean depth.

1113
00:57:26.850 --> 00:57:29.850
So I mean, while the assets that us

1114
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as the ocean exploration trust are really

1115
00:57:32.400 --> 00:57:36.180
to 6,000 meters thanks to our partners, we are able

1116
00:57:36.180 --> 00:57:39.630
to deploy other tools to go basically to full ocean depth

1117
00:57:39.630 --> 00:57:44.433
with as close to 11,000 meters or over 30,000 feet.

1118
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<v ->Wow. That's pretty cool.</v>

1119
00:57:48.360 --> 00:57:51.570
All right, Dan, I know that's about all the time we have

1120
00:57:51.570 --> 00:57:54.300
and I know you gotta get going straight at once.

1121
00:57:54.300 --> 00:57:57.640
So Mahalo for that really informative presentation

1122
00:57:58.813 --> 00:58:02.100
and also big Mahalo to the support crew, Claire and Hōkū

1123
00:58:02.100 --> 00:58:06.030
and we're glad that you were able to take some time to share

1124
00:58:06.030 --> 00:58:07.890
with us and the audience out there.

1125
00:58:07.890 --> 00:58:12.060
Glad you could, hopefully you'll get engaged with any

1126
00:58:12.060 --> 00:58:13.710
of the deep sea expeditions

1127
00:58:13.710 --> 00:58:16.080
and groups that are going on out there.

1128
00:58:16.080 --> 00:58:19.470
It's all modeled around this engaging,

1129
00:58:19.470 --> 00:58:20.760
engaging with communities.

1130
00:58:20.760 --> 00:58:23.913
So there's lots of opportunities to do that.

1131
00:58:24.900 --> 00:58:28.440
So this webinar is being recorded

1132
00:58:28.440 --> 00:58:31.320
and will be up on that website

1133
00:58:31.320 --> 00:58:33.870
that you see there in about several days.

1134
00:58:33.870 --> 00:58:34.770
10 days.

1135
00:58:34.770 --> 00:58:36.210
We have to get it transcribed

1136
00:58:36.210 --> 00:58:37.830
before we can post it.

1137
00:58:37.830 --> 00:58:40.500
So it will be hosted there along

1138
00:58:40.500 --> 00:58:42.150
with all the other great webinars

1139
00:58:42.150 --> 00:58:44.613
that we've hosted over the last few years.

1140
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Also, we have a webinar coming up on August 7th about

1141
00:58:50.580 --> 00:58:52.560
large whale entanglement response

1142
00:58:52.560 --> 00:58:54.600
and the science that goes with it.

1143
00:58:54.600 --> 00:58:57.813
So you can register on that link at the bottom there.

1144
00:58:59.418 --> 00:59:00.300
It should be really fascinating.

1145
00:59:00.300 --> 00:59:03.660
Ed Lyman and his crew do some amazing work here in Hawaiʻi

1146
00:59:03.660 --> 00:59:07.069
and around the anywhere where whales are

1147
00:59:07.069 --> 00:59:08.010
to train people on how

1148
00:59:08.010 --> 00:59:11.010
to disentangle them from marine debris.

1149
00:59:11.010 --> 00:59:13.500
So it's a really cool project.

1150
00:59:13.500 --> 00:59:16.994
You'll also get a certificate of attendance

1151
00:59:16.994 --> 00:59:20.010
from attending this webinar

1152
00:59:20.010 --> 00:59:21.540
and we should be able to send that out

1153
00:59:21.540 --> 00:59:23.250
by later today or tomorrow.

1154
00:59:23.250 --> 00:59:25.830
So you can get one hour of credit,

1155
00:59:25.830 --> 00:59:28.140
professional development for attending.

1156
00:59:28.140 --> 00:59:31.080
And also please fill out the survey at the end.

1157
00:59:31.080 --> 00:59:33.210
We definitely wanna hear from you about

1158
00:59:33.210 --> 00:59:37.410
what topics you'd like to see, anything we could do better.

1159
00:59:37.410 --> 00:59:39.457
We love to hear from you

1160
00:59:39.457 --> 00:59:42.207
and that feedback helps us justify these programs also.

1161
00:59:43.043 --> 00:59:44.790
So Mahalo for filling that out

1162
00:59:44.790 --> 00:59:48.060
and again, we look forward to seeing you on our next webinar

1163
00:59:48.060 --> 00:59:52.717
and Mahalo, Dan and everybody for a great presentation.

1164
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Thank you.

1165
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<v ->Aloha.</v>