The National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) announces $9.4M in funding to CSA International for Exploration and Research of Mid-Atlantic Deepwater Hard Bottom Habitats and Shipwrecks with Emphasis on Canyons and Coral Communities. Co-principle investigators, Drs. Sandra Brook, of the University of Oregon, and Steve Ross, of the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, will assist with the project, which is co-sponsored by the Bureau for Ocean Energy Monitoring, Regulation and Enforcement, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey. For more information on the funded project, please visit: https://nopp.org/2010/nopp-sponsors-deep-water-hard-bottom-habitat-study/.
A NOPP funded project from FY 2008 on Exploration and Research of Northern Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Natural and Artificial Hard Bottom Habitats with Emphasis on Coral Communities: Reefs, Rigs and Wrecks Reefs, Rigs and Wrecks, was highlighted by Mr. Robert Church from C & C Technologies at the MTS/IEEE Oceans 2010 conference in Seattle, Washington on 22 September 2010. Mr. Church discussed the 2009 field season focused on deepwater archaeology and unidentified wrecks in the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about the Ewing Banks, Green Lantern, and the 7,000 foot wrecks, please review the presentation. C & C Technologies is currently examining artifacts from the wrecks to identify the name of the vessels and the time period of their sinking.
