Shachak Pe’eri, Jenn Dijkstra, and Brian Madore are collaborating with ecologists from the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute on two projects designed to accurately and efficiently map nearshore environments using two marine environments, the Levant Mediterranean along the northern shore of Israel and the Red Sea near Eilat, southern Israel, as test sites.

June 6 marked the 70th anniversary of D-Day. In the summer of 2002, CCOM researchers traveled to Normandy to participate in a survey of US Navy wreck sites off the D-Day beaches and investigate high-priority targets of historical significance.