The BEN ASV suspended over the deck of the NOAA Ship Fairweather.
BEN and the Fairweather

The BEN ASV went where no robotic boat has gone before—far above the Arctic Circle. During the expedition, BEN became the first ASV to deploy from a NOAA vessel in Alaskan waters.

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GEBCO director Rochelle Wigley poses with the six GEBCO scholars who are holding their certificates.
Fair Winds!

Congratulations to the Year 14 GEBCO Scholars! A few weeks ago, we gathered in the CCOM courtyard to celebrate their graduation. It's hard to say goodbye but we know they will return to their home countries with new skills and lasting connections to colleagues around the world.

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GEBCO Scholar Cecilia Cortina presents in front of an audience sitting with computer monitors.
NOAA Hosts 2018 Chart Adequacy Workshop

NOAA Coast Survey hosted the 4th annual Chart Adequacy Workshop at NOAA’s HQ in Silver Spring, MD. Thirteen countries were respresented at this year's meeting which aims to improve the collection, quality, and availability of hydrographic data world-wide, and help standardize chart adequacy evaluations around the world.

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A poster showing maps with bathymetry and backscatter in the Gulf of Maine. The charts are accompanied by 2 columns of photos of equipment, the Gulf Surveyor, and the dock at the tide station.
Summer Hydro 2018

The 2018 Summer Hydro class spent weeks mapping in the Gulf of Maine—off the coast of Gerrish Island, south of York Harbor. Altogether, the two teams, The Manta Consultants and The Hydrones, surveyed 5.3 square kilometers.

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Semme Dijkstra being interviewed while on the deck of the Gulf surveyor.
On the Water: Mapping the Ocean

Chronicle correspondent Anthony Everett spent a day aboard the R/V Gulf Surveyor with the Summer Hydro students and learned about the initiative to map the entire ocean by 2030

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CCOM/JHC in the News

Why the Ocean Needs Wilderness
Smithsonian
Aug. 6, 2018

CCOM affiliate professor Brad Barr weighs in on how to define, and therefore protect, areas of ocean wilderness.

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NOAA Researches Autonomous Survey System in the Arctic
NOAA's Coast Survey Blog
Aug. 2, 2018

CCOM's BEN ASV team collaborated with NOAA Ship Fairweather in the first deployment of an ASV in the Arctic from a NOAA vessel.

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Autonomous Vehicle Maps the Arctic Seafloor
Marine Technology News
Aug. 8, 2018

CCOM researchers, together with personnel from NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey, recently completed an Arctic voyage that deployed the BEN ASV from the NOAA Ship Fairweather.

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Upcoming and Recent Seminars

Improved Sound Speed Control Through Remotely Detecting Strong Changes in the Thermocline
LCDR Jose M. Cordero
M.S. Defense in Ocean Engineering/Ocean Mapping

CCOM/JHC

Friday, Jul. 20, 2018, 10:00am
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Unmanned Tech for Ocean Protection: How Commercial Drones are Being Utilized for a Variety of Ocean and Coastal Research and Management Requirements
CDR Matt Pickett, NOAA (Ret)

Oceans Unmanned

Tuesday, May. 15, 2018, 11:00am
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An Analysis of Subbottom Profile Data in the Northern Marianas Area
Tiziana W. Munene
Directed Research Project

Earth Sciences/Ocean Mapping

Thursday, May. 3, 2018, 3:00pm
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Recent Publications

A Bathymetry- and Reflectivity-Based Approach for Seafloor Segmentation
Giuseppe Masetti; Larry A. Mayer; Larry G. Ward
The Nippon Foundation—GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project: The Quest to See the World’s Oceans Completely Mapped by 2030
Larry A. Mayer; Martin Jakobsson; Graham Allen; B. Dorschel; Robin Falconer; Vicki L. Ferrini; Geoffroy Lamarche; Helen Snaith; Pauline Weatherall
Algorithmic Implementation of the Triangle Test for the Validation of Charted Soundings
Christos Kastrisios; Brian R. Calder

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Spotlight on...

Manage Your Sound Speed
Sound Speed Manager streamlines the use of sound speed profiles in survey acquisition and data processing. The app provides support for commonly-used formats, model-based profile enhancement, and database management with built-in functionalities for analysis and visualization. Sound Speed Manager is an open-source project jointly developed by CCOM and NOAA Coast Survey Development Laboratory.
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