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Survey area for Mapping and Exploration Data Collection for Ocean Exploration in the Remote Pacific U.S. EEZ of the Marianas Islands, one of the six accepted projects.

This is a color coded world map that shows the geographic location of all NOAA Corps billets.

NOAA Corps billet locations.

NOAA Corps Basic Officer Training Class 145

Front row (left to right): Lt.j.g. Garett Smith, Lt. Cmdr. Dylan Kosten, Cmdr. Christopher Skapin, Lt.

Two people hold on to yellow underwater gliders in the front of a small boat as they approach an island.

Recovery of passive acoustic monitor-equipped gliders for marine mammal assessments off Hawaii.

An operator stands on the side of a small boat as it pilots a red DriX uncrewed surface vehicle in the distance.

A pilot operates a DriX at sea.

Map of DriX operations in the Gulf of Maine

Map of planned operations during the 2024 Dual DriX Project.

A red DriX uncrewed surface vehicle sails into the sunset

A DriX uncrewed surface vehicle transits at sunset in the Gulf of Maine.

A yellow Slocum glider in an Olympic swimming pool-sized test tank.

A glider in SWFSC's test tank.

A NOAA employee stands next to a yellow glider on a lab bench.

Inspecting a NOAA glider.

Knauss Fellow, Chesna Cox, wheels a glider on a cart down a dock.

OMAO Knauss Fellow, Chesna Cox, wheels a glider down a dock.

Knauss Fellow, Chesna Cox, with other glider pilots around her, programs a yellow Slocum glider sitting on a table in front of them.

OMAO Knauss Fellow, Chesna Cox, learns to program a Slocum glider.

OMAO Knauss Fellow, Chesna Cox, with a yellow underwater buoyancy glider.

OMAO Knauss Fellow, Chesna Cox, stands with a Slocum glider.