PS25_XX_Lewis
MC20 Benthic Sediment Sampling Cruise |
Primary objective is to collect sediment samples using a multicorer for chemical and biological (macrofauna) analysis. The intent is to target 50 stations surrounding the Taylor Energy Platform wr ... |
July 27, 2025, midnight
July 31, 2025, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, Mississippi
Gulfport, Mississippi |
Lewis, Christopher (Chief Sci.)
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PS25_XX_Etnoyer
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June 24, 2025, midnight
July 8, 2025, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS25_XX_Wiederwohl
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May 25, 2025, midnight
May 29, 2025, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS25_XX_Brooks
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May 20, 2025, midnight
May 23, 2025, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS25_XX_VanDerHam
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May 17, 2025, midnight
May 17, 2025, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS25_XX_Book
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May 13, 2025, midnight
May 15, 2025, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS25_18_Bentley
OASIS-MissDelta Sediment Budget Cruise |
Please see attached cruise plan. All coring will be done in waters 12-300 m deep surrounding the Birdsfoot Delta. We anticipate use of LSU gravity corer (like Benthos gravity corer) and LUMCON MC8 ... |
May 5, 2025, midnight
May 11, 2025, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
Bentley, Sam (Chief Sci.)
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PS25_XX_Bentley
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May 5, 2025, midnight
May 11, 2025, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS25_XX_Sutton
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April 22, 2025, midnight
May 3, 2025, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS25_17_Sutton
DEEPEND cruise DP10 |
Our cruise will continue the 10-year-to-date deep-pelagic time series conducted by the DEEPEND consortium. Our primary goals are to sample the fauna using a 10-m2 MOCNESS trawl, sense the water co ... |
April 22, 2025, midnight
May 3, 2025, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
Sutton, Tracey (Chief Sci.)
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PS25_16_Bourque
MDBC MUD5 Mission |
Between April 9-17, we will conduct multicore deployments, subbottom profiling, and CTD operations to assess seasonal variability within impact zones and reference areas in the northern Gulf of Me ... |
April 10, 2025, midnight
April 16, 2025, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS25_15_D'Emidio
USM AUV Mapping for BOEM (Brine Pools) and AUV mapping for MDBC. |
BOEM BRINE POOL PROJECT:This research cruise will conduct high resolution geophysical survey on 3 brine pool sites located in the western part of the Mississippi Canyon, Gulf of Mexico (Lease Bloc ... |
March 25, 2025, midnight
April 7, 2025, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS25_14_Book
Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Reinforcement Learning Tests |
Testing UUV operations with an Iver 3 UUV. |
Feb. 27, 2025, midnight
Feb. 28, 2025, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS25_13_Pierce
EPA-MSU STEM Gulf Survey VI |
EPA-MSU STEM Gulf Survey VI. STEM Educational Survey with eight MSU college students, three EPA staff, one EPA fellow, and three MSU staff. Generally, the intention is to leave Gulfport early morn ... |
Jan. 6, 2025, midnight
Jan. 11, 2025, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
Pierce, Troy (Chief Sci.)
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PS24_12_Diercks
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Dec. 4, 2024, midnight
Dec. 4, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS25_11_Polzin
PB&Jb-2 |
Recovery of a Distributed Sensor Network.
(1) intermediate mooring
(5) 5.5km long strings of tilt current meters
see attached graphic
CTD section in vicinity of Network. |
Nov. 11, 2024, midnight
Nov. 17, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS25_10_D'Emidio
MDBC AUV Mapping Surveys in the GoM (NRDA) |
The MDBC Mapping, Groundtruthing and Modeling team along with USM will conduct high resolution geophysical survey over multiple targets located in the upper LA-TX slope of the Gulf of Mexico (Jean ... |
Oct. 22, 2024, midnight
Oct. 30, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS25_09_VanDerHam
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Oct. 12, 2024, midnight
Oct. 12, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS25_08_Etnoyer
SALT 6 |
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Sept. 29, 2024, midnight
Oct. 10, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS25_07_Bourque
MDBC MUD4 |
Mesophotic and Deep Benthic Communities Habitat Assessment and Evaluation Project will conduct offshore operations in impacted and reference areas associated with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill t ... |
Sept. 20, 2024, midnight
Sept. 26, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS25_06_Sutton
DEEPEND:Deep-Sea Benefits cruise DSB1 |
TO BE COMPLETED SHORTLY...
Project's four components:
A. Active acoustic characterization of water column animal distributions relative to benthic features of interest, with focus on relative ... |
Sept. 7, 2024, midnight
Sept. 18, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
Sutton, Tracey (Chief Sci.)
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PS25_05_Hughes
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Aug. 15, 2024, midnight
Sept. 3, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS25_04_Pierce
EPA Gulf of Mexico Division & University of Southern Mississippi STEM Gulf Survey V |
STEM Educational Survey with seven USM college students, seven EPA staff/fellows, and two USM staff. Generally, the intention is to leave Gulfport and head to the Dry Tortugas National park (appro ... |
Aug. 4, 2024, midnight
Aug. 11, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
Pierce, Troy (Chief Sci.)
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PS25_03_Wiederwohl
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July 28, 2024, midnight
Aug. 2, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS25_02_Polzin
running title: Planetary Boundary Layers and Buoyancy Mixing, PB&J_b |
- deploy one conventional taut wire mooring
- deploy a bottom lander
- deploy 5 6-km strings of tile current meters
- CTD stations in the off times
The deployments of the conventional taut ... |
July 22, 2024, midnight
July 27, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
Polzin, Kurt (Chief Sci.)
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PS25_1_Bentley
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July 13, 2024, midnight
July 20, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS24_22_Stauffer
Satellite Coastal and Oceanic Atmospheric Pollution Experiment 2 (SCOAPE-II) |
We will measure air pollution and methane emissions from oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico within ~100 nautical miles of the coast from 2-13 June. Waypoints will almost exclusively be o ... |
June 2, 2024, midnight
June 13, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Cocodrie, LA
Cocodrie, LA |
Stauffer, Ryan (Chief Sci.)
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PS24_21_VanDerHam
Spring 24 educational day cruise |
This cruise is intended to demonstrate various oceanographic and marine biology techniques to prospective students and current students of the School of Ocean Science and Engineering. The purpose ... |
May 25, 2024, midnight
May 25, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS24_20_Luecke
Gulf of Mexico (GoM) AOC Pilot Cruise |
This research cruise focuses on evaluating the NRL Ocean Air Research Buoy for Interfacial Turbulence & Environmental Reporting (OARBITER) and the Turbulence Ocean Surface (TurboSurf) measurement ... |
May 20, 2024, midnight
May 24, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS24_19_Wiederwohl
Schade Cruise 5.0 |
Training cruise for Oceanography undergraduate students. Collect 22 full water column CTD casts (ranging in 50m - 3100 m water depth) in the GOM around the location of the Deep Water Horizon. |
May 14, 2024, midnight
May 18, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS24_18_Macelloni
AUV ER Mapping over the Macondo Wellhead for MBDC NOAA OECI |
The MDBC Mapping, Groundtruthing and Modeling team along with USM will conduct AUV acquisition at multiple deepwater dome sites for 11 operational days using the RV Point Sur. The mission will fo ... |
May 3, 2024, midnight
May 13, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS24_17_Bourque
MDBC MUD3 - Seasonal Habitat Assessment |
Between 22-30 April 2024, we will conduct multicore deployments, subbottom profiling, and CTD operations to assess seasonal variability within impact zones and reference areas in the northern Gulf ... |
April 23, 2024, midnight
April 29, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
Bourque, Jill (Chief Sci.)
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PS24_16_Book
Reinforcement Learning for UUVs Cruise III |
The objective of this project is to gather engineering data from operations of an Iver III thruster driven UUV over a variety of different ocean conditions with a CTD installed.
The initial tes ... |
April 16, 2024, midnight
April 19, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
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PS24_15_Hayes
NOAA OECI: "Carbon Sequestration" |
In this project, we will observe the biological pump in the north-central Gulf of Mexico using in-situ pumps (McLane Large Volume Water Samplers). The filter samples will be used to estimate sinki ... |
April 2, 2024, midnight
April 6, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
Hayes, Christopher (Chief Sci.)
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PS24_15_Pierce
EPA/USM STEM Educational Gulf Survey IV |
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Jan. 8, 2024, midnight
Jan. 12, 2024, 11:59 p.m. |
Gulfport, MS
Gulfport, MS |
Pierce, Troy (Chief Sci.)
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