PREFERRED CITATION
Bell, K.L.C., M.L. Brennan, and N.A. Raineault, eds. 2015. New frontiers in
ocean exploration: The E/V Nautilus 2014 Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean field
season. Oceanography 28(1), supplement, 60 pp., http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/
oceanog.2015.supplement.01.
Contents
INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 1
TECHNOLOGY ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4
DATA MANAGEMENT ..............................................................................................................................................................................10
NAUTILUS SAMPLES ...................................................................................................................................................................................13
EDUCATION & OUTREACH ..................................................................................................................................................................16
2014 FIELD SEASON SUMMARY .........................................................................................................................................................24
Exploration of the Straits of Florida and Great Bahama Bank ...................................................................................26
Ecosystem Impacts of Oil and Gas Inputs to the Gulf of Mexico (ECOGIG) ....................................................28
Documenting WWII Shipwrecks in the Gulf .......................................................................................................................30
Fate and Transport of Gas Bubbles from Natural Seeps in the Northern Gulf of Mexico ..........................32
Exploration and Mapping of the Deep Mesoamerican Reef ......................................................................................34
Exploration of the Windward Passage and Jamaica Channel: Tectonic Gateways to
the Caribbean Sea .....................................................................................................................................................................36
Exploring Kick’em Jenny Submarine Volcano and the Barbados Cold Seep Province,
Southern Lesser Antilles ........................................................................................................................................................38
Transforming Remotely Conducted Research Through Ethnography,
Education & Rapidly Evolving Technologies (TREET) ...........................................................................................40
A Symposium on Archaeological Oceanography in the Mediterranean and Black Sea..............................44
Workshop on Telepresence-Enabled Exploration of the Eastern Pacific Ocean ..............................................46
EPILOGUE ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................52
AUTHORS .........................................................................................................................................................................................................54
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ..........................................................................................................................................................................56
REFERENCES ....................................................................................................................................................................................................59
Cover photo credit:
Ocean Exploration Trust and
ECOGIG Consortium