TDI-Brooks International Awarded a five year contract to provide ship support to USGS

TDI-Brooks International was awarded a five-year U.S. Geological Survey contract for ship support as needed. The USGS program is based at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusets.

The Woods Hole Science Center, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, is one of three marine teams that conduct research within the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program. The team is located on WHOI's Quissett Campus.USGS earth scientists explore and study many aspects of the underwater areas between shorelines and the deep ocean, off the U.S. East Coast, the Gulf of Mexico, and in parts of the Caribbean and Great Lakes.

The Woods Hole team's research focuses on five general themes: coastal and shelf geology, sediment transport, environmental geoscience, energy and tectonics, and information science. A long-term goal is to develop predictive capabilities for geologic processes and to provide the basic geologic framework of the U.S.'s offshore areas. The results of these studies are released to the public as reports, maps, journal articles, books, atlases, and seminar contributions. Much of the data and information are accessible online through woodshole.er.usgs.gov.

The USGS Woods Hole Science Center has specialized capabilities to assist in oceanographic research, including sediment transport instrumentation, an integrated seafloor mapping facility, geochemistry laboratory facilities, a 25-foot research vessel R/V Rafael, a gas-hydrates testing laboratory, and an advanced shoreline mapping vehicle (SWASH).

The contract allows TDI-Brooks International to bid on any proposed ship requirements as a selected provider through 2017.