@article {6782, title = {E/V Nautilus 2019 Mapping: Filling the Gaps in Seafloor Coverage of the Remote Pacific and Contributing to Global Seabed Mapping Initiatives}, volume = {33(1)}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {30-31}, publisher = {The Oceanography Society}, doi = { https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2020.supplement.01}, url = {https://tos.org/oceanography/assets/docs/33-1_supplement.pdf}, author = {Lindsay Gee and Erin Heffron and Renato Kane and Colleen Peters and Nicole A Raineault} } @article {6712, title = {E/V Nautilus: Seafloor Exploration and Mapping in the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa}, year = {2019}, month = {December 8-13}, publisher = {American Geophysical Union }, address = {San Francisco, CA}, keywords = {ASVi, Ocean exploration}, author = {Renato Kane and Lindsay Gee and Chris Roman and Val Schmidt and Mareike Sudek and Hanae Spathias and Georgia Coward and Nicole A Raineault} } @article {6443, title = {E/V Nautilus Mapping and Exploration of North Pacific Seamounts During Expeditions in 2017 and 2018}, year = {2018}, month = {December 10-14}, pages = {Washington, DC}, abstract = {

The expeditions of Exploration Vessel (E/V) Nautilus for 2017 and 2018 covered wide areas of the North Pacific - ranging from south of the eastern end of the Clarion Fracture Zone, the Davidson Seamount within the borders of Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, the SGaan Kinghlas-Bowie Seamount Marine Protected Area in northern Canadian waters, and west to the Papah{\={a}}naumoku{\={a}}kea Marine National Monument. A number of these expeditions investigated some of the seamounts that exist throughout the North Pacific.

Satellite derived maps of the seafloor have revealed tens of thousands of seamounts that rise more than 1,000m or more from the seafloor. However the vast majority have not been mapped with traditional acoustic multibeam sonar and even fewer have been explored by direct observation and sampling. The number and range of seamounts are significant in understanding the oceanic seafloor processes and the variations in the plate volcanic activity. They also support some unique ecological communities, and detailed knowledge of their shape and location assists in modelling global oceanographic circulation models.

E/V Nautilus mapped the seamounts with the Kongsberg EM302 multibeam sonar and resulting sonar bathymetry and backscatter revealed significant details of their structure and variation. The high-resolution mapping revealed considerable differences in minimum depth (+/- hundreds of meters) and areal extent of some of the seamounts from the satellite maps and added to the baseline knowledge of these significant oceanic features.

An interdisciplinary team of scien\­tists participated in the ROV dives of Hercules and Argus at sea and were supported from many institutions ashore via telepresence. The ROV dives to these unexplored seamounts included visual survey transects with limited sampling of the geology and biology. The Nautilus Science Communicators also extended engagement to the public via telepresence during all the ROV dives.

}, keywords = {e/v nautilus, exploration, mapping, Ocean Exploration Trust, Pacific, seamounts}, url = {https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm18/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/432876}, author = {Lindsay Gee and Cherisse Du Preez and Tammy Norgard and Larry A Mayer and Christopher Kelley and Chad King and Renato Kane and Erin Heffron and Nicole A Raineault} } @article {5815, title = {Exploration of Hydrothermal Vents Along the Galapagos Spreading Center}, volume = {29, No.1, Supplement}, year = {2016}, month = {March}, pages = {35-7}, publisher = {The Oceanography Society}, keywords = {galapagos, hydrothermal vents}, url = {http://tos.org/oceanography/assets/images/content/29-1_supplement.pdf}, author = {Nicole A Raineault and Robert Ballard and Larry A Mayer and Fisher, Charles R. and Carey, S. and Marsh, Leigh and Renato Kane and T{\"u}z{\"u}n, Suna and Shank, T M and Smart, Clara} } @article {5299, title = {Exploration of Eratosthenes Seamount {\textendash} A continental fragment being forced down an oceanic trench}, volume = {26}, year = {2013}, month = {March 2013}, pages = {36-41}, publisher = {Oceanography Society}, url = {http://www.tos.org/oceanography/archive/26-1_nautilus.pdf}, author = {Mitchell, Garrett and Larry A Mayer and Bell, K L and Nicole A Raineault and Chris Roman and Robert Ballard and Cornwell, K. and Hine, A. and Shinn, E. and Dimitriadis, I. and Bogdan, O.} } @article {5078, title = {Exploration of the Black, Aegean, and Mediterranean Seas Aboard E/V Nautilus}, year = {2012}, month = {Dec 3 - Dec 7}, address = {San Francisco, CA, United States}, abstract = {

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}, author = {Bell, K L and Robert Ballard and Brennan, M. L. and Nicole A Raineault and Shank, T M and Larry A Mayer and Chris Roman and Mitchell, Garrett and Coleman, D. F.} }