Meeting 20: June 30, 2021, Virtual

• Meeting Agenda (pdf)
• Agenda Note: Charting a Way Forward (pdf)
• Federal Register Notice

Presentations

• With Appreciation (pdf)

Actions

• OEAB Advice to NOAA Administrator (pdf)

Meeting 19: April 7-8, 2021, Virtual

• Meeting Agenda (pdf)
• Federal Register Notice
• Minutes (pdf)

Actions

• OEAB Advice to NOAA Administrator (pdf)
• OEAB FFO Certification (pdf)

Read Aheads

• Accelerating Growth of U.S. Blue Economy: Initial Recommendations — An Interim Report Blue Economy Subcommittee of NOAA Ocean Exploration Advisory Board (pdf)
• NOAA Blue Economy Strategic Plan 2021-2025
• Summary: NOAA Blue Economy Strategic Plan 2021-2025 (pdf)

Information about OER

• Fiscal Years 2016-2020 Ocean Exploration Funding Opportunity Report (pdf)
• NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer: 2021 Expeditions Overview
• A Bibliometric Analysis of Articles Supported by NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (pdf)
• New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus, NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, and R/V Falkor 2020 Field Season
• New NOAA Ocean Exploration Ship to Be Based in Newport, Rhode Island
• New NOAA Ship to Explore, Study the Oceans
• Saildrone Launches 72-foot Surveyor, Revolutionizing Ocean Seabed Mapping

Presentations

• OER’s Federal Funding Opportunity Overview: Process and Year in Review (pdf)
• OER Update (pdf)
• White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Prepared Talking Points (pdf)

Background

• Implementation Plan for the National Strategy for Ocean Mapping, Exploring, and Characterizing the United States Exclusive Economic Zone (pdf)
• S.381 – National Ocean Exploration Act
• Testimony of Governor Gina M. Raimondo, Nominee to be Secretary of Commerce Before the Senate Commerce Committee (pdf)