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The 116 ft. R/V Pelican was designed and outfitted to conduct a variety of oceanographic research missions. The R/V Pelican successfully conducts scientific trawling, MOCNESS trawls, large box core sampling, thirty-foot piston cores, shallow seismic surveys, current meter array and benthic boundary array deployment and recovery. The R/V Pelican has also successfully conducted plankton sampling, hydrographic casts with CTD-rosette system, ADCP sampling and underway collection sampling (SCS) and with towed water sampling systems. The vessel is owned by the State of Louisiana, operated by Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) and homeported in Cocodrie, Louisiana. The vessel is operated as an Research Vessel as designated by the USCG. The vessel is available for legitimate research and education programs of Consortium members, state and federal agencies, other nonprofit groups, and oceanographic industries. The R/V Pelican operates primarily in the Gulf of Mexico but has been conducting research as far north as Canada and as far south as Trinidad.