The DISCOVRE program involves expeditions around the world to collect the necessary data to better understand deep-sea ecosystems.
DEEP SEARCH: The Final Leg
October 21 - 30, 2019
DEEP SEARCH departs from Charleston, South Carolina, aboard the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster for the project's final research cruise. The primary objectives of this cruise are chemistry and water column community profiling from environmental DNA sampled with CTD casts, retrieving benthic landers at deep-sea coral sites, mid-water trawling, and collecting additional multibeam data to fill in gaps in seafloor mapping. Representing the USGS DISCOVRE team are Cheryl Morrison and Veronica Salamone from the Leetown Science Center and Jonathan Quigley from the Wetland and Aquatic Research Center.