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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Mapping in Arctic Waters
In this video from Seabed 2030, CCOM researcher Kevin Jerram is one of the expedition members aboard the I/B Oden who gives us a glimpse of what it's like to map the ocean floor in Arctic waters.
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Apply for Next Year's NF/GEBCO Training Program!
Nominations are now being accepted for the 23rd year of the Nippon Foundation/GEBCO Training Program for international students. The course, which will begin in late August 2026, leads to a Graduate Certificate in Ocean Mapping. Applications will be accepted until April 19, 2026. Join us!
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Work Begins on Center of Excellence
UNH has broken ground for the construction of a new 70,500-square-foot building that will be home to the Center of Excellence for Operational Ocean and Great Lakes Mapping, a state-of-the-art facility for research and instruction.
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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."
Research
Education
Outreach
UNH Breaks Ground on Ocean Mapping Center of Excellence
UNH News, February 3, 2026
What's at the Bottom of Lake Erie?
Erie Reader, January 27, 2026
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
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.
The Great Bay Modeling System and Application to Understanding Dynamics of Extreme Flooding Events
Dr. Jang-Geun Choi, Physical Oceanographer
UNH Ocean Engineering
Friday, February 27, 2026, 3:10pm
Chase 105
Transitions in Scalar Dispersion Regimes from Wall-Mounted Cylindrical Sources
Dr. Christopher M. White, Professor
UNH Department of Mechanical Engineering
Friday, February 20, 2026, 3:10pm
Chase 105
Resolving Tidally-Driven Seabed Sediment Transport. Simultaneous Operation of Multiple Acoustic Sensors: Compromises in Spatial and Temporal Resolution
Dr. John E. Hughes Clarke, Research Professor
UNH Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
Friday, February 13, 2026, 3:10pm
Chase 105