Casey O'Heran and Liz Weidner pose back to back in front of green trees.
Casey and Liz on the "Podcats"

CCOM grad students Casey O'Heran and Liz Weidner visit the UNH Podcats to eloquently talk about what brought them to UNH, their involvement at CCOM, and their responsibilities as president and vice president of the UNH Graduate Student Body. We couldn't ask for better ambassadors of our program!

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Larry Mayer speaking with a bathymetric image on a screen behind him.
From Vision to Action

CCOM Director Larry Mayer is at the Royal Society in London this week for a special symposium, From Vision to Action. This prestigious event marks the progress of the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO's Seabed 2030 Project since its launch in 2017, and provides an opportunity to take stock of where they are, how far they need to go, and how they will get there.

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Members of the GEBCO-NF Alumni XPRIZE team pose with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
XPRIZE Winners Meet with Shinzo Abe

Members of the GEBCO-NF Alumni Team met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this week to present SEA-KIT, their winning entry in the Shell Ocean XPRIZE Challenge.

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Jenn Djikstra in sunglasses talking with coast and ocean in the background.
Climate Matters

CCOM Research Assistant Professor Jenn Djikstra was featured in the Boston 25 News special, "Climate Matters." Jenn's segment starts around the 26:30 mark but the whole program is worth viewing. Three other UNH researchers also contributed, including our colleage Jennifer Seavey of the Shoals Marine Laboratory. 

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Blue toned underwater photo of rocks and cave with symposium title, dates, website.
Map the Gaps

This GEBCO Symposium on Bathymetry brought together people from various ocean science disciplines and leading industries to focus on the challenges and opportunities in global and regional mapping, as well as emerging technologies for more effective and efficient seafloor mapping and turning data into information. Attendees shared their work by submitting digital posters and gave lightning talks.

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CCOM/JHC in the News

"Patchy" Seascape Emerging: UNH Researchers Explain Why
Fosters Daily Democrat
Nov. 13, 2019

CCOM researchers have discovered that shifts in nature create a perfect breeding ground for much bushier, or turf, seaweed that could impact species habitats and the structure of the food web.

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New High-Resolution Bathymetry Maps Provide a Detailed View of Gulf of Maine Seafloor
Northeast Ocean Data Portal
Oct. 21, 2019

CCOM provided two new bathymetry map layers for the Gulf of Maine which have been released by the Northeast Ocean Data Portal.

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Why We Need to Map the Ocean Floor
Nautilus Magazine
Nov. 6, 2019

Larry Mayer is interviewed for Nautilus Magazine's blog, "Facts So Romantic."

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Upcoming and Recent Seminars

Impressed Current Cathodic Protection (ICCP) Systems in Marine Environments
Chris Sullivan, PE
System Engineer

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, 3:10pm
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New Robotic Vehicles to Explore the Deep Ocean
Molly Curran
Mechanical Engineer

Deep Submergence Lab
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Friday, Nov. 8, 2019, 3:10pm
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Advances in Applications of Soft Robotics, Additive Manufacturing, and Distributed Sensing to Deep-Sea Research
Brennan T. Phillips
Assistant Professor

Dept. of Ocean Engineering
University of Rhode Island

Friday, Nov. 1, 2019, 3:10pm
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Spotlight on...

ePOM
The e-learning Python for Ocean Mapping (ePOM) project provides collections of Jupyter notebooks to learn Python with a focus on Ocean Mapping.
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