Leveraging Funding To Investigate our Past: NOAA Ocean Exploration’s Grants Program

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Re-Visualizing Submerged Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

NOAA Ocean Exploration is the only federal program dedicated to exploring the deep ocean, closing prominent gaps in our basic understanding of US deep waters and the seafloor and delivering the ocean information needed to strengthen the economy, health, and security of our nation. Since 2001, NOAA Ocean Exploration has funded maritime heritage projects through its annual competitive grants program. This program has funded over 100 projects which have aided in archaeological application of frontier ocean science technologies and methods including autonomous, remotely-operated, and diver-based research, and have furthered topics important to the community from paleolandscapes to WWII-focused exploration through our peer-reviewed proposal process. This paper highlights some of those contributions along with information on current and future archaeology funding opportunities and recent ocean mapping and remotely operated vehicle (ROV) dives conducted off NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer on the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the Azores Plateau.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Re-Visualizing Submerged Landscapes   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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