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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Sunken Warship Discovery
CCOM Director Larry Mayer discusses the discovery of the WWII Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki during the Iron Bottom Sound expedition aboard the E/V Nautilus. (Image courtesy of Ocean Exploration Trust.)
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UNH Community Map Web Service
This project, funded by the Canadian Hydrographic Service, was developed at UNH under the leadership of CCOM's Christos Kastrisios. Learn how coastal communities can build a ‘community map’ with just one click!
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Nautilus and DriX - Back Together Again
CCOM is taking part in the E/V Nautilus' expedition to the Solomon Islands where they are exploring the WWII maritime archaeology of Guadalcanal in Iron Bottom Sound, and are using the DriX to make high resolutions maps of the battlefield seafloor. Photo courtesy of Exploration Trust.
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Education
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WWII Warship Found: See Images of Japanese Naval Destroyer Teruzuki
USA Today, Jul. 16, 2025
Photos Reveal Sunken Warship Discovered Half a Mile Deep After 83 Years
Newsweek, Jul. 16, 2025
Lost Severed Bow of USS New Orleans Discovered in South Pacific
Ocean News & Technology, Jul. 10, 2025
How to Livestream the Exploration of Shipwrecks in Guadalcanal
silive.com, Jul. 8, 2025
Ocean Explorers Map and Characterize Maritime Archaeology of Guadalcanal and Iron Bottom Sound
North Texas e-News!, Jul. 5, 2025
How the Hunt for WWII Subs Revealed Undersea Volcanoes
History.com, Jun. 3, 2025
Mapping the Largest Known Cold-Water Coral Reef Habitat
Sowers, D., Mayer, L.M., Masetti, G., and Cantwell, K, Hydro International, vol. 2, July 2025.
New Hydrographic Survey Specifications - Updates and Enhancements
Wilson, M., Faulkes, T., Masetti, G., 2025 U.S. Hydro Conference. Wilmington Convention Center, North Carolina, 2025.
Advances in Ocean Mapping and Nautical Cartography
Masetti, G., Church, I., Hiroji, A.D., Andersen, O., MDPI Books, pp. 184, March 2025.
Calculating 3D Rugosity Maps for Complex Habitat Scans
Beregovyi, K., Dijkstra, J.A., and Butkiewicz, T., Frontiers in Marine Science, vol. 12, p. 1449332, 2025.
Vessel Trajectory Data Mining: A Review
Troupiotis-Kapeliaris, A., Kastrisios, C., and Zissis, D., IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 4827-4856, 2025.
Focal Engine: Filling a Gap Between Game Engines and Big Data Scientific Visualization Packages
Kindrat Beregovyi
Ph.D. Student
Computer Science
Thursday, June 12, 2025, 11:00 a.m.
Chase 130
Behind the Rhythms of Free Surface Thermal Signatures: Two Length Scales, Two Behaviors, One Flow
Zeeshan Saeed
Ph.D. Candidate
UNH Department of Mechanical Engineering
Friday, May 2, 2025, 3:10 p.m.
Chase 105
Assessing Satellite-Derived Bathymetry Map Accuracy: A Comparison of Manual and Algorithmic ICESat-2 Bathymetric Extraction Methods and the Impact of Depth-Weighted Sampling
Andrea Granger
Master's Thesis Defense
Earth Sciences: Ocean Mapping
Friday, April 25, 2025, 9:00 a.m.
Chase 130