Today is Teacher Appreciation Day! OET is immensely proud of all of the educators and science communicators who have sailed on E/V Nautilus as Science Communication Fellows. We also want to say a big THANK YOU to all the teachers who have engaged in ship-to-shore interactions with us, used our educational materials in their classrooms, or followed along with our dives. 

📷: most of the 2026 SCF cohort at AltaSea during our annual training forum last month.

Ocean Exploration Trust's 2025 field season took E/V Nautilus across the Pacific, with seven multi-disciplinary expeditions exploring some of the region’s most underexplored waters. Expeditions dove into the highly active submarine volcanoes of the Mariana Islands, traced the maritime heritage of the Battles of Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, surveyed seamounts in the Marshall Islands, investigated the seafloor around Howland and Baker Islands, and revealed the abyssal habitats of the Cook Islands.  

Read our 2025 Field Season Report here