The OS includes highly experienced personnel with more than 125 years of collective experience. This experience can be used for:

• Data management for large and small projects
• Hydrographic survey cruises
• Physical, chemical and biological oceanographic data collection using an extensive inventory of instrumentation and sampling tools
• Current meter mooring design and deployment
• Shipboard and bottom mounted Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP) data collection and processing
• Design and fabrication of Ocean Observations Systems
• Sampling and imaging devices used with deep-submergence vehicles.
• Scientific cruises using submarines in the Gulf of Mexico
• The operation and deployment of a wide diversity of ocean instrumentation.
• Scientific diving to 120 ft.
• Analysis and quality assurance of oceanographic time series, hydrographic, and satellite remote sensing data
• Circulation modeling
• Wind-wave modeling