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OCEANOS

The OCEANOS mission is to bring oceanography and STEM opportunities to the Spanish-speaking community. OCEANOS means: Ocean Community Engagement and Awareness using NASA Earth Observations and Science. Our program focuses on graduating high school seniors and first-generation undergraduate students interested in participating in a bilingual summer research experience.

About OCEANOS

Shallow coral reef sea turtle and fish underwater

How can I apply?

Applications are now open for the Summer 2025 program. Four weeks of classroom and field training will be conducted during the summer and will end with an open activity where students will share learning experiences with academics, government representatives and people from local communities.

OCEANOS PI Juan Torres-Perez delivers the opening address of the final presentations to a crowded room at the EcoExploratorio: el Museo de Ciencias de Puerto Rico.

Partnerships

Partners in Puerto Rico will help create courses and the research program. Partners will be SMEs (subject matter experts) and will inspire participation and promote understanding for OCEANOS.

A coral reef in American Samoa, one of the locations where researchers from the Laboratory for Advanced Sensing went on deployment to collect data using fluid-lensing instruments.

Training

Trainings will consist of basic remote sensing image analysis techniques for ocean color and water quality assessment, coupled with the design of do-it-yourself (DIY) instrumentation for collection of in situ water quality parameters, and general benthic characterization of tropical shallow-water ecosystems with NASA’s NeMO-Net application.