May 10 – 20 Staff training Missions (Two missions were successfully conducted)
Mission 1 — How water movement affects coral reef organisms: Aquarius mission 9918, Conch Reef, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
Principal Investigator: Dr. David Wethey, University of South Carolina.
June 7 – 11 Training
June 14 – 23 Saturation
Mission 2 — Joint US/Japanese Aquarius mission to conduct in situ measurements of coral metabolism: A comparison across oceans.
July 6 – 10 Training
July 13 – 20 Saturation
Mission 3 — Light on and Above Coral Reefs: Imaging, Signaling, and Effects of Stress.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Tom Cronin, University of Maryland.
August 2 – 6 Training
August 9 – 18 Saturation
Mission 4 — Effects of water flow and prey behavior on coral feeding.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Ken Sebens, University of Maryland.
September 7 – 11 Training
September 13 – 22 Saturation
Mission 5 — Factors affecting sponge growth at Conch Reef, FKNMS.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mark Patterson, College of William and Mary.
October 4 – 8 Training
October 11 – 20 Saturation
Mission 6 — The ecological significance of growth and reproduction by an important sediment producing green seaweed.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Celia Smith, University of Hawaii.
November 1 – 5 Training
November 8 – 17 Saturation
1998 Mission
Mission 1 — Determining the condition of coral reefs in Florida: Long–term monitoring of deep reef communities at Conch Reef, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Stephen Gittings, National Marine Sanctuaries Program.
August 1 – 10 Saturation
1996 Mission
Mission 1 — JASON VII: Adapting to a Changing Sea
Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert Ballard, The Jason Foundation for Education.
April 10 – 20 Saturation