April 2008 NURC/Navy SRDD Development Mission 2
Principal Investigator: Craig Cooper, NURC/UNCW
June 2008 Aquarius Coral Restoration/Resilience Experiments (ACRRE)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Margaret Miller, NOAA Fisheries
September 2008 Role of sponges in Nitrogen cycling and total respiration in coral-reef ecosystems
Principal Investigator: Dr.Niels Lindquist, UNC Chapel Hill
October 2008 Ocean Acidification: Controls on Reef pH
Principal Investigator: Dr. Chris Martens, UNC Chapel Hill
November 2008 Teacher Under the Sea
Principal Investigator: Dr. James Lindholm, California State University Monterey Bay
Mission Images: 2007
April 2007 Staff training and system checks Principal Investigator: Otto Rutten, NURC/UNCW
May 2007NASA Space Simulation and Training Project: NEEMO 12.
Principal Investigator: Bill Todd, NASA/United Space Alliance
June 2007 NURC/Navy Saturation Development Mission 1
Principal Investigator: Craig Cooper, NURC/UNCW
June 2007 NURC/Navy Saturation Development Mission 2
Principal Investigator: Craig Cooper, NURC/UNCW
Mission Images: 2006
March 2006 Staff training and system checks
Principal Investigator: Craig Cooper, NURC/UNCW
April 2006NASA Space Simulation and Training Project: NEEMO 9.
Principal Investigator: Bill Todd, NASA/United Space Alliance
June 2006 NURC/Navy Saturation Development
Principal Investigator: Craig Cooper, NURC/UNCW
July 2006NASA Space Simulation and Training Project: NEEMO 10.
Principal Investigator: Bill Todd, NASA/United Space Alliance
September 2006NASA Space Simulation and Training Project: NEEMO 11.
Principal Investigator: Bill Todd, NASA/United Space Alliance
November 2006 NURC/Navy Saturation Development Mission IV
Principal Investigator: Craig Cooper, NURC/UNCW
July 2005 The role of Hydrodynamics in Determining Nutrient Fluxes to Conch Reef.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Stephen Monismith
August 2005 Sponge production and recycling of new nitrogen in coral reef ecosystems.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Chris Martens, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
November 2005 Movement behavior of fishes: The role of scale and no–take protection in the Conch Reef SPA/RO.
Principal Investigator: Dr. James Lindholm, PIER
December 2005 — Leg 1 | December 2005 — Leg 2 Navy Saturation Diving School training mission for habitat saturation diving.
Co–Principal Investigators: Capt. Mark Helmkamp, USN, Supervisor of Diving; Craig Cooper, NURC/UNCW
June 2004 A multiscale investigation of physical/biological coupling on the Florida Keys reef tract.
Principal Investigator: Dr. James Leichter, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
July 2004 NASA Space Simulation and Training Project: NEEMO VI
Principal Investigator: Bill Todd, NASA/United Space Alliance
August 2004 Sponge production and recycling of new nitrogen in coral reef ecosystems.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Chris Martens, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
September 2004The physiological ecology of symbiotic dinoflagellates across a depth gradient: Understanding the influence of physical and biological factors on photosynthetic processes and population distribution.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mark Warner, University of Delaware
October 2004 International bio-medical research mission.
Principal Investigator: Bill Todd, NASA/United Space Alliance
November 2004 Herbivore resistance to seaweed defenses and the effects on reef community structure.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mark Hay, Georgia Institute of Technology
December 2004 Navy Saturation Diving School training mission for habitat saturation diving.
Co–Principal Investigators: Craig Cooper, NURC/UNCW; Capt Mark Helmkamp, USN, Supervisor of Diving
May 2003: A Study of Population Dynamics of Scleractinians on Conch Reef: A Demographic and Population Genetics Approach.
Principal Investigator: Mary Alice Coffroth, SUNY – Buffalo
June 2003: Space Simulation and Training Project: NEEMO V.
Principal Investigator: Bill Todd, NASA/United Space Alliance
July 2003: Flow Modulated Metabolism: Connection with Coral Bleaching and Reef Oxygen Crises?
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mark Patterson, College of William and Mary
August 2003: Responses of benthic macroalgae to high frequency upwelling on the Florida reef tract.
Principal Investigator: Dr. James Leichter, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
September 2003: Biogeochemical control on the stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of marine sponges along natural environmental gradients.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Chris Martens, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
November 2003: Herbivore resistance to seaweed defenses and the effects on reef community structure.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mark Hay, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mission Images: 2002
April 2002: A Study of Population Dynamics of Scleractinians on Conch Reef: A Demographic and Population Genetics Approach.
Principal Investigator: Mary Alice Coffroth, SUNY – Buffalo
July 2002: NASA Space Simulation and Training Project.
Principal Investigator: Bill Todd, NASA/United Space Alliance
August 2002: Reef Fish Census and Tagging Studies Related to Marine Protected Areas in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.
Principal Investigator: Billy Causey, National Marine Sanctuary Program
September 2002: NASA Space Simulation and Training Project.
Principal Investigator: Bill Todd, NASA/United Space Alliance
November 2002: Flow Modulated Metabolism: Connection with Coral Bleaching and Reef Oxygen Crises?
Principal Investigator: Mark Patterson, College of William and Mary
Mission Images: 2001
October 2001: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Mission Images: 2000
May 2000: Ecology of deep–water coral reef sponges.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Joe Pawlik, University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
August 2000: Coral Reef Rapid Assessment and Monitoring.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Steven Miller, University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
September 2000: The ecological significance of growth and reproduction by an important sediment producing green seaweed.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Celia Smith, University of Hawaii.
November 2000: Measuring water motion around corals and its relationship to nutrient transfer - How water movement affects coral reef organisms.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Chris Finelli, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium
Mission Images: ‹ 2000
July 1995: Spatial heterogeneity and coral recruitment: Ecological implications and physiological adaptations.
Principal Investigator: Peter Edmunds, California State University - Northridge
August 1999: Light on and above coral reefs: Imaging, signaling, and effects of stress.
Principal Investigator: Thomas Cronin, University of Maryland Baltimore County
