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NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson completes productive field season in the Great Lakes

A white NOAA ship with an orange uncrewed surface vehicle on the water in the foreground

NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson, a seafloor mapping and charting ship, completed a series of surveys in the Great Lakes in 2022. In all, the ship surveyed 450 square nautical miles of lake bottom in Lake Erie and 274 square nautical miles in Lake Ontario. Learn more about this highly productive deployment in this story contributed by NOAA Coast Survey.