An aerial view of the RVGS and the C-Worker 4 drone cruising side by side.
Shaheen and Hassan Announce $6.4 Million Grant for UNH

U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire have announced that NOAA is awarding the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center a $6,475,000 grant to continue the center's work.

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John Hughes Clarke, Jose Cordero, and Anand Hiroji pose together with monitors behind them.
Mapping the Celtic Sea

Professor John Hughes Clarke, master's student Jose Cordero, and post doc Anand Devappa Hiroji are in the Irish Sea aboard the R/V Celtic Explorer. They are part of a transatlantic partnership that is collecting multibeam mapping information for the INFOMAR program (Integrated Mapping for the Sustainable Development of Ireland's Marine Resource).

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Shannon Hoy sitting in front of computer screens.
Shannon A'Hoy!

CCOM master's student Shannon Hoy is currently aboard the RRS Discovery off the coast of Greenland. She is taking part in an ICY-LAB expedition which is focused on isotope cycling in the Labrador Sea.

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Two people on ice floe surrounded by melt water.
Arctic Ice Melt Drives Territory Claims

ABC Radio Australia interviewed Dr. Larry Mayer about the rapid expansion of efforts to map the Arctic seafloor—the result of the equally rapid degradation of sea ice over the past 15 years.

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The ASV in open water with a zodiac full of researchers nearby.
Cruising the Coastlines

Our ASV team recently collaborated with researchers aboard the E/V Nautilus—using the ASV to identify ROV dive sites for the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary expedition. Photo courtesy of Ocean Exploration Trust.

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CCOM/JHC in the News

Researchers at UNH Help National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Map Seafloor
NH1 News
Aug. 14, 2017

Directory Larry Mayer gives an overview of the Center's work in this video.

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UNH and NOAA Join Worldwide Effort to Map Ocean Floors
Union Leader
Aug. 13, 2017

U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H., visited the Center with her team, asking questions about the kind of work that is being done there.

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Four Graduates in Four Countries
UNH Today
Jul. 13, 2017

Recent CCOM grad Onni Irish has received a grant from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program to conduct research at the K.G. Jebsen Centre for the Law of the Sea at Norway's University of Tromsø.

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Upcoming and Recent Seminars

Evaluating Satellite Derived Bathymetry in Regard to Total Propagated Uncertainty, Multi-Temporal Change Detection, and Multiple Non-Linear Estimation
Ricardo Ramos Freire
Ph.D. Candidate in Ocean Engineering

University of New Hampshire

Thursday, Jul. 20, 2017, 11:00am
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High Speed, High Resolution Seabed Mapping Using Commercial Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Sonar
David Shea
Vice President of Engineering

Kraken Sonar, Inc.

Friday, Apr. 28, 2017, 3:00pm
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HydrOffice QC Tools: Enhancing the Coast Survey Workflow
Matt Wilson
Physical Scientist

NOAA Office of Coast Survey

Friday, Apr. 21, 2017, 3:00pm
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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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