The Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center, located at the University of New Hampshire, is a national center of expertise in ocean mapping and hydrographic sciences.
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The Hydrographic Society of America Member Matching Scholarships
USM, UNB, and CCOM provided Matching Scholarship Opportunities with THSOA National Scholarships for the "OMG UNB – CCOM UNH Multibeam Training Course" co-hosted by USM in Gulfport last week. Benjamin Kraun of Stockton University was awarded the matching scholarship and joined 47 other attendees in successfully completing this rigorous and relevant multibeam course! Thanks to academic members for contributing this matching scholarship this year!
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Congratulations Jenna!
At the end of the fall semester, Jenna Ehnot successfully defended her master's thesis in ocean engineering with, "Now You See It: Evaluating a Small Object Detection Model for Uncrewed Surface Vehicle Operations."
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Elias Adediran Featured in Hydro International
CCOM Ph.D. student Elias Adediran has published an article in Hydro International on, "how MBES resolution scales with depth, why AUV/ROV platforms can achieve far higher detail, the limitations of each platform, and why ‘fit-for-purpose mapping’ remains essential in modern ocean mapping."
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Q&A with Jenna and Natalie
CCOM grad students Jenna Ehnot and Natalie Cook recently took questions and discussed their experiences with marine robotics and their mapping expedition in Lake Erie.
Research
Education
Outreach
Urban Coast Institute Honors Mayer
UNH Today, October 14, 2025
Scientists Use ROV to Explore Bottom of Lake Erie Off Eastern Erie County
Erie Times-News, October 10, 2025
NH's Coastal Economy is Short on Miles, Long on Opportunity
NH Business Review, October 3-16, 2025
Uncovering Naval History in the Solomon Islands
WCVB, October 2, 2025
S-100: NOAA and the Next Generation of Marine Navigation
Foghorn, September 2025
Quest for Queen Cleopatra's Lost Tomb Reveals a Sunken Ancient Harbor
CBS News, September 23, 2025
How Multibeam Echosounder Platform Choice Controls Mapping Resolution
Adediran, E., Hydro International #4 - 2025 BUSINESS GUIDE, 2026.
Mapping Coral Reef Habitats with ICESat-2 and Satellite Imagery: A Novel Spectral Unmixing Approach Compared to Machine Learning
Trudeau, G.A., Lyon, M., Lowell, K., Dijkstra, J.A., Remote Sens. 17(21), 3623, 2025.
Unlocking Hydrographic Data Throughput
Wilson, M., Faulkes, T., Masetti, G., Hydro International, 3(29). 2025.
Automated Islands Generalization Techniques for Nautical Charts
Nada, T., Kastrisios, C., Calder, B., Ence, C., Greene, C., Bethell, A., Geo-Spatial Information Science, 1–14. 2025.
Robot Fish, Artificial Shark Perception, and Talking with Lights: A Showcase on MANTA RAY Graduate Research
Hannah Arnholt
Ph.D. Candidate, UNH Ocean Engineering
Friday, January 23, 2026, 3:10 p.m.
Chase 105
Now You See It: Evaluating a Small Object Detection Model for Uncrewed Surface Vehicle Operations
Jenna Ehnot
Master's Thesis Defense, Ocean Engineering
Friday, December 12, 2025, 10:00 a.m.
Chase 130
Quantifying Contributions of Sonar Systems on Marine Soundscapes: A Statistical and Machine Learning Analysis
Reilly Lessard
Master's Thesis Defense, Computer Science
Tuesday, December 9, 2025, 9:00 a.m.
Chase 130