Tour NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, Celebrate Ocean Exploration Partnerships

NARRAGANSETT, R.I. – April 21, 2022 – NOAA and the College of Rhode Island invite media to 2 occasions on Saturday, April 30. The primary is a tour for media of NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, the one federal vessel devoted to ocean exploration, whereas the ship is docked at its homeport at Naval Station Newport.

The tour will probably be adopted in Narragansett, Rhode Island, by a particular occasion hosted by the College of Rhode Island’s Graduate College of Oceanography at its Narragansett Bay Campus to have a good time Ocean Exploration Partnerships for the Future.

The media will hear from URI and NOAA leaders in regards to the work that NOAA, NOAA’s Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI) and our companions are doing to discover, characterize and map U.S. territorial waters, develop and deploy new applied sciences, and practice a various ocean workforce for a rising Blue Financial system.

WHAT: A ship tour for media in Newport adopted by a particular occasion in Narragansett: Ocean Exploration Partnerships for the Future

WHERE: Ship excursions will happen at Naval Station in Newport Rhode Island, 690 Peary St., Newport, RI, 02841

Particular Occasion: Ocean Exploration Partnerships for the Future will happen on the College of Rhode Island Narragansett Bay Campus, Ocean Science & Exploration Heart, 215 South Ferry Street, Narragansett, RI 02882

WHEN:  Ship tour for media, Saturday, April 30, 11:00 a.m. EDT
Ocean Exploration Partnerships for the Future occasion, Saturday, April 30, 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EDT

WHO: The talking program will probably be held in the beginning of the Particular Occasion celebrating Ocean Exploration Partnerships for the Future in Narragansett and will probably be adopted by a tour of URI’s Interior Area Heart that can embrace a dwell video reference to scientists and college students aboard the Ocean Exploration Belief’s E/V Nautilus on an energetic NOAA OECI ocean exploration mission, a briefing on the upcoming uncrewed Saildrone Surveyor mission to discover the Aleutian Arc, and displays by Blue Financial system workforce interns. A lightweight reception within the outside courtyard will conclude the occasion.

Confirmed audio system embrace:

• Paula S. Bontempi, Ph.D., Dean, College of Rhode Island Graduate College of Oceanography
• Rick Spinrad, Ph.D., NOAA Administrator
• Adam Soule, Ph.D., Professor, College of Rhode Island Graduate College of Oceanography and Govt Director of the NOAA Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute.

RSVP: All journalists should RSVP by Tuesday, April 26, by 2 p.m. EDT in the event that they plan to attend each or both the ship tour in Newport and particular occasion in Narragansett. Please RSVP by e mail to: monica.allen@noaa.gov and oeci@etal.uri.edu

Journalists should deliver an image ID to Newport Naval Station for the ship tour portion of the occasion.

COVID steerage: Masks are required to board the ship. We additionally require visitors to self-screen and report any COVID signs. For media actions that require audio, resembling video interviews, masks could also be eliminated for audio readability.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer

NOAA Ocean Exploration

NOAA Ocean Exploration Cooperative InstituteUniversity of Rhode Island Graduate College of Oceanography