The National Undersea Research Program (NURP) is a U.S. government program that operates six facilities for undersea research, including the world's only permanent undersea research facility,

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. The program is operated under the auspices of the

Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) is a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). OAR is also referred to as NOAA Research. NOAA Research is the research and development arm of NOAA and is the driving force beh ...

, a division of the

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(NOAA). Each center is funded by a grant from NOAA. Projects are chosen based upon peer review.

List of regional centers

* National Undersea Research Center for Hawaii and the Western Pacific - University of Hawaii's

Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory The Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL) is a regional undersea research program within the School of Ocean and Earth Sciences and Technology (SOEST) at University of Hawaii at Manoa, in Honolulu. It is considered one of the more important ...

(HURL) * National Undersea Research Center for the West Coast and Polar Regions

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(UAF) School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences *

National Undersea Research Center for the North Atlantic and Great Lakes The National Undersea Research Center for the North Atlantic and Great Lakes (NURC-NA&GL) is one of six undersea centers established by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Undersea Research Program. It is co-located with the Univ ...

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, Avery Point * National Undersea Research Center for the Middle Atlantic Bight -

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(IMCS) at

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, New Jersey * National Undersea Research Center for the Southeastern United States and Gulf of Mexico -

University of North Carolina at Wilmington The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW or UNC Wilmington) is a public research university in Wilmington, North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina System and enrolls 17,499 undergraduate and graduate students eac ...

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- Caribbean Marine Research Center (CMRC),

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External links

NOAA's Undersea Research Program
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