Upcoming CCOM/JHC seminars
Presenter: Thomas Meyer
When: Fri - Mar 26, 2010 03:00 p.m.
Where: Room 130 - Video Classroom.
Recent CCOM/JHC articles
NOAA Tests ROV Little Hercules at Chase Ocean Engineering Lab - UNH Campus Journal. Mar 1, 2010While Little Hercules spent just five days in Durham before heading to Hawaii, where it will explore the waters between there and Indonesia, NOAA plans to return to Chase in April to test an ROV almost eight times the size of this one. “They need a big enough tank to submerge the ROV in a controlled environment,” says Andy McLeod, lab manager of the UNH facility, which houses several joint UNH and NOAA programs. McLeod adds that the ongoing testing will mean opportunities for UNH undergraduate students to get involved in research.
A 2008 Coast Guard survey found the U.S. continental slope extends more than 100 miles farther from the Alaskan coast than previously thought, according to Larry Mayer, who was chief scientist of the mission.
Indiana School Welcomes Home NOAA 'Teacher at Sea' from Arctic Voyage Teacher Discovers New Seamount - NOAA. Oct 26, 2009Students from Carmel Middle School in Carmel, Ind., welcomed home Christine Hedge, a seventh-grade science teacher who spent six weeks in the Arctic Ocean on board the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy as part of a multi-year, multi-agency effort to collect seafloor mapping and oceanographic data along the North American Extended Continental Shelf.
'The discovery of this seamount is a prime example of how little we know about the Arctic Ocean,' said retired NOAA Capt. Andy Armstrong, the mission's co-chief scientist and co-director of the NOAA-University of New Hampshire Joint Hydrographic Center. 'Christine's keen observations allowed us to react in time to turn the ship and explore this important seafloor feature in closer detail.'
CCOM alumn Cmdr. Shepard Smith Cmdr. of the Thomas Jefferson said Monday the Hassler will be the fourth NOAA hydrographic survey ship, with equipment to map the ocean floor to provide accurate nautical charts to commercial and recreational boats.
James V. Gardner and Mashkoor Malik (of The Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping (CCOM) UNH and NOAA, respectively) participated on the cruise, and provided details of the discovery in the August 11, 2009 issue of EOS.
The crew of the Healy has spent the past three months underway studying Arctic Ocean hydrography and mapping the Extended continental shelf.
One of the highlights of the 2009 mission was the August 25 discovery of an underwater mountain, known as a seamount, by scientists aboard the Healy. ( An underwater geologic feature needs to extend at least 1,000 meters above the seafloor to quality as a seamount. ) The not-yet-named seamount is the first discovered in the Arctic since 2003.
