The Louisiana State University School of the Coast and Environment has received funding from the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration for a project entitled "Using Industrial, Deepwater, Remotely Operated Vehicles to Census Planktonic Organisms."

World Oil, Oct, 2005

The Louisiana State University School of the Coast and Environment has received funding from the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration for a project entitled "Using Industrial, Deepwater, Remotely Operated Vehicles to Census Planktonic Organisms." The project is a one-year study to demonstrate the benefits of Industrial-Academic collaboration to explore the ocean.

The project is part of SERPENT (Scientific and Environmental ROV Partnership using Existing iNdustrial Technology), a collaboration between the oil industry and the scientific world. Since inception in 2002 by founding partners National Oceanography Center, Southam9pton, Subsea 7, BP, and Transocean, the working partnership has grown steadily to include a number of worldwide organizations and academic institutions, including LSU.