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Sveriges Radio
Aug. 5, 2019
The Swedish ice breaker Oden is leaving Thule, Greenland to head to the Ryder Glacier's fjord system in northwestern Greenland.
Scientific American
Aug. 1, 2019
Five nations are asserting rights to vast, overlapping portions of the Arctic Ocean seafloor. CCOM's Larry Mayer and David Mosher weigh in.
BBC
Jul. 16, 2019
The pros and cons of unmanned cargo transport vessels.
Marine Technology
Jul. 8, 2019
During a two-week expedition, researchers mapped areas within the Thunder Bay Marine Sanctuary with a multibeam sonar system aboard ASV BEN (Bathymetric Explorer and Navigator) from UNH's Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping.
National Marine Sanctuaries News
Jul. 3, 2019
During a two-week expedition, researchers mapped areas within the Thunder Bay Marine Sanctuary with a multibeam sonar system aboard ASV BEN (Bathymetric Explorer and Navigator) from UNH’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping.
Union Leader
Jun. 22, 2019
CCOM researchers lead global efforts to map the seafloor.
Go! & Express
Jun. 21, 2019
East London-born geologist Dr Rochelle Wigley has made history by being the first woman to lead a winning team in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE competition.
ESRI ARCUser
Jun. 21, 2019
The Seabed 2030 Project, sponsored by The Nippon Foundation and GEBCO, plans to map the entire ocean floor by 2030, starting with the XPRIZE-winning NF-GEBCO Alumni Team's SEA-KIT.
Science
Jun. 20, 2019
Larry Mayer is consulted for article about the competition for the North Pole.
Coast Survey Staff Newsletter
Jun. 19, 2019
Tyanne Faulkes, NOAA Office of Coast Survey Pacific Hydrographic Branch (PHB), and Giuseppe Masetti, CCOM, are running a workshop this week in support of AusSeabed at Geoscience Australia.
UNH Today
Jun. 17, 2019
Ph.D. student Drew Stevens find support at CCOM for an interdisciplinary course of study.
NH Business Review
Jun. 13, 2019
UNH has launched a new center focused on the science of sound.
Popular Mechanics
Jun. 11, 2019
The winner of the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE was the team that showed the best technological chops for remotely and autonomously plumbing the world’s oceans—the GEBCO-Nippon Foundation Alumni Team.
Seacoast Online
Jun. 10, 2019
UNH has launched a new center focused on the science of sound. The Center for Acoustics Research and Education (CARE) will bring together expertise across wide-ranging disciplines and provide acoustics research, education and outreach opportunities for government and industry partners across the U.S.
Granite Geek
Jun. 10, 2019
The new UNH Center for Acoustics Research and Education (CARE) will bring together expertise across wide-ranging disciplines and provide acoustics research, education and outreach opportunities for government and industry partners. CCOM research professor Anthony Lyons notes that CARE will support expansion into other fields, such as music, speech, and medicine.
WCAX
Jun. 10, 2019
UNH has started a new center focused on the science of sound.
Industry Updates 24
Jun. 10, 2019
The GEBCO-NF Alumni team created a robot won the XPRIZE due to its potential in mapping the seafloor.
Fosters Daily Democrat
Jun. 10, 2019
UNH has launched a new center focused on the science of sound. The Center for Acoustics Research and Education will bring together expertise across wide-ranging disciplines and provide acoustics research, education and outreach opportunities for government and industry partners across the U.S.
News 18
Jun. 8, 2019
The Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is the deepest known point in earth's oceans. The United States Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping measured the depth of the Challenger Deep in 2010, and it was measured to be 10,994 meters below sea level, which is equal to piling 36 Eiffel Towers on top of each other.
Bloomberg Businessweek
Jun. 7, 2019
Larry Mayer discusses how this technology can help us answer questions relating to climate change using underwater drones that can nearly triple data from the ocean floor.
NH Business Review
Jun. 6, 2019
A team of alumni from the UNH has won the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE, a global competition to advance deep-sea technologies for ocean floor exploration. The GEBCO-Nippon Foundation Alumni Team — alumni and industry partners and advisors based at UNH’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping — prevailed against teams from around the world to win the top prize of $4 million for their concept.
Hakai Magazine
Jun. 5, 2019
Last week, the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE challenge awarded $4-million to the GEBCO-NF Alumni team for demonstrating the best technology for remotely and autonomously plumbing the world’s oceans. It was the culmination of a three-year battle of the brains that resulted in über-advanced maps for accessing the Earth’s final frontier—the deep ocean.
Philanthropy News Digest
Jun. 4, 2019
The Ocean Discovery XPRIZE $4 million grand prize was awarded to the GEBCO-NF Alumni Team—a fourteen-nation team based in the U.S. that comprising alumni of the Nippon Foundation/GEBCO training program at UNH's Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping. Led by Rochelle Wigley and Yulia Zarayskaya, the GEBCO-NF team combined existing technologies with a robust, low-cost unmanned surface vessel—the SeaKIT—and a cloud-based data processing system to enable comprehensive mapping of the ocean floor by 2030.
Forbes
Jun. 3, 2019
The winning team of the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE was the GEBCO-Nippon Foundation Alumni Team. They not only managed to map the required area successfully, but did so at a resolution of around 5 meters—significantly better than existing technologies. The success of the team is part of a wider project to by the Nippon Foundation and GEBCO to try and map the entire seabed by 2030.
Winners Announced in $7 Million Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE for Advancements in Autonomous Ocean Exploration
Aithority
Jun. 3, 2019
The results of the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE were revealed at an awards ceremony hosted at the world-renowned Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, part of the Oceanographic Institute, Prince Albert I of Monaco Foundation. The grand prize winner, receiving a total of $4M, was GEBCO-NF Alumni, an international team based in the United States.
