The GEBCO students pose in front of the NOAA sign in Boulder, CO.
GEBCO Visits NGDC

The Year 11 Nippon Foundation / GEBCO class visited the Marine Geology and Geophysics Division at the National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) on January 5th and 6th, 2015. This annual visit introduces the students to the World Data Service Center and allows the students to understand some of the projects the NGDC is involved in related to data management and stewardship.

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Red placard reading, "Atlantis," on a railing on the ship.
Completing the Mendocino Ridge Mapping

Center and NOAA scientists aboard the R/V Atlantis completed a high resolution mapping of the Mendocino Ridge off the California coast as part of a U.S. Extended Continental Shelf effort. 

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Collage of photos from Ocean Discovery Day
Ocean Discovery Day

Ocean Discovery Day was an amazing success! We hosted 1,300 school children and educators at Chase Ocean Engineering Lab on Friday then, on Saturday, we opened our doors to the public. In spite of the rain, more than 500 intrepid souls checked out the marine scene in Chase and at the Coastal Marine Lab in New Castle, NH.

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Notes from the Arctic

Larry Mayer and Kevin Jerram took part in the SWERUS-C3 multi-disciplinary expedition aboard the ice breaker ODEN in the Artic. Kevin sent a series of excellent reports to keep us up to date on their progress.

Read Kevin's posts

Visit the SWERUS-C3 website

Seamount Discovery!

Center researchers aboard the R/V Kilo Moana discovered a previously unmapped seamount in the Pacific Ocean.

Postdoc researcher Giuseppe Masetti sent images and a description of this exciting discovery.

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CCOM/JHC in the News

Tracking Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
Marine Technology News
Nov. 12, 2014

Tom Weber, Yuri Rzhanov, and postdoc Angelia Vanderlaan will collaborate with Molly Lutcavage, director of the Large Pelagics Research Center at UMass, to design, conduct and analyze the first autonomous aerial vehicle surveys of Atlantic bluefin tuna to provide fishery-independent regional estimates of their numbers.

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Scientists Have Discovered Thousands of New Mountains — on the Ocean Floor
Vox
Oct. 3, 2014

Jim Gardner is quoted in this article about undiscovered seamounts.

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Updated "Whale Alert" iPad, iPhone App
The Maritime Executive
Sep. 15, 2014

The Whale Alert app is now available to mariners and the public on the U.S. West Coast to use with an iPad or iPhone to help decrease the risk of injury or death to whales from ship strikes.

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Upcoming and Recent Seminars

Estimating Surficial Seafloor Sediment Properties Using an Empirical Orthogonal Decomposition on Acoustic Backscatter Waveform Properties
Joshua Humberston
Master of Science Defense

CCOM/JHC

Monday, Jan. 5, 2015, 10:00am
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Using Multibeam Echosounders for Hydrographic Surveying in the Water Column: Estimating Wreck Least Depths
Katrina Wyllie
Directed Research Project

CCOM/JHC

Friday, Dec. 12, 2014, 3:00pm
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Identifying Biological Hotspots from Splitbeam and Multibeam Acoustic Surveys in Species-rich, Untrawlable Habitats in Coral Reef Ecosystems
J. Christopher Taylor
Ecologist

NOAA's Ocean Service
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Sciences 

Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, 3:00pm
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Recent Publications

Mapping the Surficial Geology of the Arctic Ocean
David C. Mosher; Martin Jakobsson; C. Gebhardt; Larry A. Mayer
High-resolution Mapping of Offshore and Onshore Glaciogenic Features in Melville Bay, Northwestern Greenland
Francis F. Freire; R. Gyllencreutz; S. Greenwood; Larry A. Mayer; Martin Jakobsson
First scientific dives of the Nereid Under Ice hybrid ROV in the Arctic Ocean
C.R. German; A. Boetius; Louis L. Whitcomb; Michael Jakuba; J. Bailey; C. Judge; C. McFarland; S. Suman; S. Elliott; C. Katlein; S. Arndt; Andrew Bowen; Dana Yoerger; J Kinsey; Larry A. Mayer; M. Nicolaus; S. Laney; H. Singh; T.L. Maksym; PS 86 Scienti Team

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Spotlight on...

Val Schmidt and the Lost AUV
Val Schmidt was on Little Cayman Island in the Caribbean assisting University of Delaware Associate Professor Art Trembanis with AUV operations. There was a bit excitement when an AUV was lost during a deployment. Val tells the story…
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