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	A Particular Concern: Protecting Deep-Sea Corals A NURP-led expedition reports on the success of efforts to preserve a national treasure.
Hot Topics: For the Latest Happenings at NURP	Humans and Machines in the Sea: Past, Present, and Future Current - the Journal of Marine Education - features NOAA's Aquarius NURP and the Steamship Portland Documentary NURP funded study yields insight into cold seep habitats The 2004 Aquarius Writing Contest is on... New Depth Record for Living Seafloor Micro-algae NURP Research Contributes to Nassau Grouper Conservation in the Bahamas

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Undersea research is oceanography done by scientists who enter the oceans using scuba, robots and submarines.  NOAA's Undersea Research Program (NURP) researchers explore, sample and live beneath the sea.  They study a range of environmental problems and science, from beach erosion to deep sea volcanoes.

NURP is part of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) line office, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), which is also known as NOAA Research.

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