Halfway through their six-week research cruise of the Arctic Ocean, UNH researchers Kevin Jerram and Evgenia Bazhenova visited the North Pole.

Jackie Richter-Menge will join another recent appointee, Larry Mayer, as a member of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission.

In June this year, 150 scientists, scholars and business associates from around the world, including CCOM director Larry Mayer, attended the Forum for Future Ocean Floor Mapping in Monaco, endorsing a project dubbed “Seafloor 2030.”

With only 5% of the world's seafloor mapped in any real detail, scientists are now planning to take a Google Maps-style approach to unearthing the secrets of the oceans. 

A group of 150 oceanographers has agreed to complete a worldwide sea-bed map by 2030.

Scientists want to map the planet’s vast, unknown ocean floor.

Shin Tani, chair of GEBCO Guiding Committee and former chief hydrographer of Japan, is adamant about the need of sharing data to reach the goal of a completely mapped ocean floor.

Cartographers and hydrographers from twelve countries gathered in Maryland last week to participate in a three-day NOAA workshop on evaluating the adequacy of nautical charts.

A local reporter spent a day with the Summer Hydro class aboard the Gulf Surveyor.

Larry Mayer calls for ocean mapping commitment equal to Mars mission.

President Obama has approved the promotion CCOM alum Shep Smith from captain to rear admiral (lower half), which is a prerequisite for him to become director of NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey. Shep will succeed Rear Adm. Gerd Glang, another graduate of our mapping program.