2024 Okeanos Explorer ParticipationAssessment

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Okeanos Explorer Participation Assessment

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2024 Okeanos Explorer Participation Assessment

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Expiration Date: 12/31/2023

2024 Okeanos Explorer Participation
Assessment
This is a voluntary survey.
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sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the
collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other
suggestions for reducing this burden to:
Abby Letts LTJG/NOAA
NOAA Ocean Exploration
24 Colovos Rd
Durham, NH 03824
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* Indicates required question

Assessment
As the NOAA Ocean Exploration's operations onboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer are constantly
evolving, the evaluation of your experience as part of the telepresence-enabled team (ship and
shore) is essential to how we move forward and operate in the future. With each topic, please
consider what you thought went well and what may have been challenging, and please feel free to
provide suggestions for future operations. Individual assessments will be included in a
comprehensive assessment of the expedition and help guide operations for the next field season.

Anonymity
This form does not collect email addresses and the responses are only accessible by Kasey
Cantwell, the Operations Chief who oversees EX operations. All questions are optional, including
providing your name and affiliation. If you have a specific experience that you'd like to discuss
further, please reach out to Kasey Cantwell ([email protected]). 

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Name (optional if you want to remain anonymous)

2.

Affiliation (optional)

3.

Career stage (optional)
Mark only one oval.
Student
Early-career scientist (within 10 yrs from your terminal degree)
Over 10 yrs from your terminal degree

4.

What expedition are you providing feedback about?

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Location during the cruise: *
Mark only one oval.
On shore
On ship

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Skip to question 17

Shoreside participants

6.

How would you rate your experience during the pre-cruise planning and preparation
period?
Mark only one oval.

Needs Significant Improvement

1

2

3

4

5

Excellent

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Please provide any comments about your pre-cruise experience or suggestions for
improvement.
Comments may relate to cruise planning, communications, science and operational
meetings, training sessions, overall guidance, or any other information you would like to
share. 
We are particularly interested in any feedback on ways to improve our engagement of the
science team.  

8.

How would you rate your experience during the cruise?
Mark only one oval.

Needs Significant Improvement

1

2

3

4

5

Excellent

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Did you feel operations were collaborative in nature?
Mark only one oval.

Needs Significant Improvement

1

2

3

4

5

Excellent

10.

Please provide any comments about your experience or suggestions to improve
operations.
Comments may relate to training & guidance, use of new technologies,
technical/operational support, daily operations/science planning, situational awareness,
execution/efficiency, staffing, operational tempo & schedule, communication, perception of
shore-based experience overall, or any other information you would like to share. How
could we have improved your experience? We are also interested to learn how you felt the
community based model worked. Did you feel there was a good balance of objectives and
that the cruise was collaborative? Did you feel your opinions and feedback were considered
in operational planning?

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Additional useful products or datasets
What data do you wish we collected or made available on shore? Are any of our products
particularly useful or not helpful? What data could we be collecting that would help
characterize an area?

12.

How would you rate data/information management and dissemination?
Mark only one oval.

Needs Significant Improvement

1

2

3

4

5

Excellent

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Please provide any feedback on how we can improve information and data
dissemination. 

14.

Please provide any comments about how we could improve our sampling
operations.
We are interested in feedback on our sampling operations. Are there additional tools for
sampling that would be useful to help initial characterization of an area? Are there ways
that we can replace the need for a physical sample with a sensor or digital data? Please be
aware there are physical and staffing limitations with our operations that we cannot change
including few onboard scientists and limited physical space and facilities to process and
store samples.

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We are committed to a respectful and inclusive environment onboard the ship and
in all places where NOAA Ocean Exploration engages. How would you rate your
experience relative to a respectful and inclusive environment? 
Mark only one oval.

Needs Significant Improvement

1

2

3

4

5

Excellent

16.

Please provide any feedback about your experience and anyways we can support
a respectful and inclusive environment.
If you have a specific experience that you'd like to discuss further, please reach out
to our Operations Chief, Kasey Cantwell ([email protected]). 

Skip to question 30

At-sea Participants

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Role during the cruise (optional)
Mark only one oval.
Mapping team
ROV team
Video team
Data Team
Science Lead
Sample Data Manager
Ship's Crew
Other:

18.

How would you rate your experience during the pre-cruise  planning and
preparation period?
Mark only one oval.

Needs Significant Improvement

1

2

3

4

5

Excellent

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Please provide any comments about your pre-cruise experience or suggestions for
improvement.
Comments may relate to cruise planning, science and operational meetings, training
sessions, overall communications, or any other information you would like to share. 
We are particularly interested in any feedback on things that would improve how ready you
felt to board the ship and step into your role for this expedition.

20.

How would you rate your experience onboard during this cruise?
Mark only one oval.

Needs Significant Improvement

1

2

3

4

5

Excellent

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Did you feel operations were collaborative in nature?
Mark only one oval.

Needs Significant Improvement

1

2

3

4

5

Excellent

22.

Please provide any comments about your experience or suggestions to improve
operations.
Comments may relate to training & guidance, use of new technologies,
technical/operational support, daily operations/science planning, situational awareness,
execution/efficiency, staffing, operational tempo & schedule, communication, perception of
shore-based experience overall, or any other information you would like to share. How
could we have improved your experience? We are also interested to learn how you felt the
community based model worked. Did you feel there was a good balance of objectives and
that the cruise was collaborative? Did you feel your opinions and feedback were considered
in operational planning?

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How would you rate communication / information dissemination while onboard?
Mark only one oval.

Needs Significant Improvement

1

2

3

4

5

Excellent

24.

Please provide any feedback on how we can improve information dissemination
and communication onboard. 

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Did you feel you had the tools you needed onboard to complete your job? 
Mark only one oval.

No, I was missing things that made it impossible to do my job

1

2

3

4

5

Yes, I had everything I needed to complete my job

26.

What else would have been helpful during your time onboard?
Is there anything you wish we had onboard (e.g. a piece of sampling equipment, camera in
a specific place, type of workout equipment in the gym, additional online resource)? Is there
anything that we're not doing that you've seen be successful on other platforms? Anything
that was a major annoyance to you during your time onboard?

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Please provide any comments about how we could improve our sampling
operations.
We are interested in feedback on our sampling operations. Are there additional tools for
sampling that would be useful to help initial characterization of an area? Are there ways
that we can replace the need for a physical sample with a sensor or digital data? Please be
aware there are physical and staffing limitations with our operations that we cannot change
including few onboard scientists and limited physical space and facilities to process and
store samples.

28.

We are committed to a respectful and inclusive environment onboard the ship and
in all places where NOAA Ocean Exploration engages. How would you rate your
experience relative to a respectful and inclusive environment? 
Mark only one oval.

Needs Significant Improvement

1

2

3

4

5

Excellent

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Please provide any feedback about your experience and anyways we can support
a respectful and inclusive environment onboard.
If you have a specific experience that you'd like to discuss further, please reach out
to our Operations Chief, Kasey Cantwell ([email protected]). 

Overall Experience

30.

How would you rate your overall experience during this expedition?
Mark only one oval.

Needs Significant Improvement

1

2

3

4

5

Excellent

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31.

Please provide feedback about your overall experience and
suggestions/recommendations for future operations.

32.

Is there anything else that was not covered in another section that you would like to
share?  

For additional feedback or information please email
[email protected] to contact all Expedition Coordinators, or email
[email protected] to keep your feedback anonymous.

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