2018 Seacoast SeaPerch Challenge

Students use STEM skills to build mini-ROVs and have the opportunity to put them through their paces at the annual Seacoast SeaPerch Challenge in UNH's Swasey Pool.

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Photo of the ASV Maxlimer on still water.
Next in XPRIZE

The GEBCO-NF XPRIZE team has qualified for the final round of the $7m XPRIZE competition to find the innovative ocean mapping technologies.

Photo courtesy of the BBC.

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Cropped cover of the supplement with title and image of a jellyfish
New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration

The annual ocean exploration supplement to Oceanography is out! This beautiful publication highlights the 2017 field season of the E/V Nautilus, the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, and the R/V Falkor. Our collaboration with these vessels is integral to our work at CCOM and many of our researchers contributed to these stories of discovery.

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Kerri Seger in red jacket on the deck of a ship holding a acoustic instrument.
The Whale Listener

Dr. Kerri Seger has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant to conduct a passive acoustic monitoring study near a humpback whale breeding ground in Columbia.

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CCOM/JHC in the News

INFOMAR Sets Sail on Survey to Map the Celtic Sea Seabed
Coast Monkey
Apr. 23, 2018

John Hughes Clarke joins an INFORMAR cruise aboard the Celtic Explorer.

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Ready for the Future
UNH Cooperative Extension
Apr. 23, 2018

Students put STEM skills into action at the Seacoast SeaPerch Challenge.

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URI Creates Consortium with Two Major Institutions to Operate Endeavor and Submit Proposal for New Research Vessel
URI Today
Apr. 16, 2018

The University of Rhode Island has created the East Coast Oceanographic Consortium with WHOI and UNH to jointly operate the R/V Endeavor for its final years and to submit a proposal to operate a new ship, which would be based at URI’s Narragansett Bay Campus.

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Upcoming and Recent Seminars

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)
President

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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Broadband Acoustic Measurements of a Controlled Seep with Multiple Gases for Verification of Flux Estimates Through Bubble Dissolution and Target Strength Models
Kevin Rychert
M.S. Defense

Ocean Engineering/Ocean Mapping

Friday, May. 4, 2018, 1:00pm
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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
Working with Video to Improve Deep-Sea Habitat Characterization
Peter J. Etnoyer; Mashkoor A. Malik; Derek Sowers; Caitlin Ruby; Rachel Bassett; Jennifer A. Dijkstra; Nikolai Pawlenko; Susan Gottfried; Kristen Mello; Mark Finkbeiner; Angela Sallis

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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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