Okeanos Explorer (EX2301): 2023 Shakedown + EXPRESS West Coast Exploration

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Description

From April 13-27, 2023 (Portland, Oregon, to Seattle, Washington), NOAA Ocean Exploration conducted the 2023 Shakedown + EXPRESS West Coast Exploration expedition (EX2301), an ROV and Mapping expedition to a shakedown the remotely operated vehicle (ROV), video, telepresence, seafloor mapping, and sampling operations aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, as well as explore deep waters off the west coast of the United States. Operations during this 15-day expedition included the completion of 9 successful remotely operated vehicle (ROV) dives, which were conducted in water depths ranging from 650 m to 3960 m for approximately 45:34 hours of bottom time and resulted in the collection of 92 samples. This research used data collected during NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer expedition EX2301, led by NOAA Ocean Exploration. Taxonomic identifications provided by the Deep-sea Animal Research Center at University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Additional Data Resources: Project website: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/expedition/ex2301/ Expedition report: https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/55891 Data was archived with NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI): https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/waf/okeanos-rov-cruises/ex2301/ Annotation dataset (provided by DARC) archived with NCEI: https://oer.hpc.msstate.edu/okeanos/ex2301/Eventlogs/VideoAnnotations-Version2/Specimen/ Sample Data: Sample records archived at NCEI: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/oceans/archive/arc0219/0283599/1.1/data/0-data/submersible/Submersible_Specimen_Data/EX2301_Cruise_Specimens.csvBiological samples were sent to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (SNMNH): https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/search/iz/Geological samples were sent to Oregon State University’s Marine Geological Repository: https://osu-mgr.org/noaa-exWater collected and filtered for eDNA analyses were sent to the SNMNH. Sample catalog numbers: https://geome-db.org/record/ark:/21547/FjB2 NCBI bioproject: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/1285415 eDNA data in OBIS: https://ipt-obis.gbif.us/resource?r=noaa-oer-okeanos-ex2301

Data Records

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is NOAA Ocean Exploration. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

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Keywords

Samplingevent

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

EX2301_CruiseSpecimens.csv	https://oer.hpc.msstate.edu/okeanos/ex2301/EX2301_Cruise_Specimens.csv ASCII CSV
EX2301_Annotations	https://oer.hpc.msstate.edu/okeanos/ex2301/Eventlogs/VideoAnnotations-Version2/ ASCII CSV

Contacts

NOAA Ocean Exploration

Deep Sea Animal Research Center at University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Ashley Marranzino

Distributor

NOAA Ocean Exploration Affiliate

https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6451-1139

Geographic Coverage

United States West Coast

Bounding Coordinates	South West [39.504, -128], North East [48.778, -122.607]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date	2023-04-13 / 2023-04-27

Sampling Methods

ROV expeditions are conducted according to procedures as outlined by Galvez et al., 2025: https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/70281.

Study Extent	United States West Coast

Method step description:

ROV expeditions are conducted according to procedures as outlined by Galvez et al., 2025: https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/70281 Expedition report: https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/55891

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