Still from a video of Larry's interview.
A World-Class Honor

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has elected ocean mapping pioneer Larry Mayer, director of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire, as a foreign member. Mayer is among 175 foreign members of the academy, best known for selecting the Nobel Prize winners. Congratulations Larry!

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Colin Ware stands in front of a monitor showing the glove and information text about the BathyGlobe display.
BathyGlobe at AGU

Visualization Lab Director Colin Ware demoed the new BathyGlobe interactive display at the AGU Fall Meeting. The application allows the user to zoom in to places on the globe to see how much of the ocean has been mapped at that location.

Image shows pink acoustic curtain with gas plumes appearing as blue flares rising from the seabed.
Sounding the Sparkling Depths

Associate Professor Tom Weber and grad students Liz Weidner and Erin Heffron sailed aboard New Zealand's R/V Tangaroa where they worked to use echocounders to quanitify the amount of gases coming up form the ocean floor, and to find a way to measure the size and rate of the bubbles. 

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How Close Are We to Completely Mapping the Ocean?

This video from Seeker, featuring Larry Mayer and the NF-GEBCO Alumni XPRIZE Team, attempts to answer how close we are, how it can happen, and why it matters.

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Still from the live stream camera aboard the Okeanos Explorer showing fan corals.
Océano Profundo 2018

The NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer's mission, Océano Profundo 2018, is complete. This telepresence-enabled ocean exploration expedition collected critical baseline information on unknown and poorly understood deepwater areas surrounding Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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CCOM/JHC in the News

Scientist Pool Data to Create the $3B Ocean Map
MarineLink
Dec. 10, 2018

Larry Mayer is quoted in this article about the effort to map the world's oceans—Seabed 2030.

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INSIGHT-The Final Frontier: Who Owns the Oceans and Their Hidden Treasures?
Thomson Reuters Foundation News
Dec. 4, 2018

Larry Mayer is quoted in this article about the growing competition to control the riches of the ocean.

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First Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project Meeting
Marine Technology News
Nov. 30, 2018

The first Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project regional mapping meeting for the Atlantic and Indian Oceans took place this month at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University.

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Upcoming and Recent Seminars

Ice Core Records of Changing Climate from Denali National Park
Cameron Wake

Inst. for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space
UNH

Friday, Dec. 7, 2018, 3:10pm
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Some Examples of Nonlinear Modeling and Control of Ocean Vehicles
Prof. Craig Woolsey

Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering (AOE)
Virginia Tech 

Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, 3:10pm
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Acoustic Detection and Quantification of Crude Oil
Scott Loranger
Doctoral Dissertation Defense

Oceanography

Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, 10:00am
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Recent Publications

Automated Identification of Discrepancies Between Nautical Charts and Survey Soundings
Giuseppe Masetti; Tyanne Faulkes; Christos Kastrisios
Mapping the World's Oceans
Larry A. Mayer
Seal Occurrence and Habitat Use during Summer in Petermann Fjord, Northwestern Greenland
K. Lomac-MacNair; Martin Jakobsson; A C. Mix; Francis F. Freire; Kelly Hogan; Larry A. Mayer; Mari Ann Smultea

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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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