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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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."
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Elias Adediran Featured in Hydro International
CCOM Ph.D. student Elias Adediran has published an article in Hydro International on, "how MBES resolution scales with depth, why AUV/ROV platforms can achieve far higher detail, the limitations of each platform, and why ‘fit-for-purpose mapping’ remains essential in modern ocean mapping."
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Larry Mayer Receives National Champion of the Ocean Award
CCOM director Larry Mayer has received the National Champion of the Ocean Award from the Urban Coast Institute (UCI) of New Jersey's Monmouth University where he made remarks at the 2025 Future of the Ocean Symposium.
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Q&A with Jenna and Natalie
CCOM grad students Jenna Ehnot and Natalie Cook recently took questions and discussed their experiences with marine robotics and their mapping expedition in Lake Erie.
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Outreach
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
S-100: NOAA and the Next Generation of Marine Navigation
Foghorn, September 2025
Quest for Queen Cleopatra's Lost Tomb Reveals a Sunken Ancient Harbor
CBS News, September 23, 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.
Now You See It: Evaluating a Small Object Detection Model for Uncrewed Surface Vehicle Operations
Jenna Ehnot
Master's Thesis Defense, Ocean Engineering
Friday, December 12, 2025, 10:00 a.m.
Chase 130
Quantifying Contributions of Sonar Systems on Marine Soundscapes: A Statistical and Machine Learning Analysis
Reilly Lessard
Master's Thesis Defense, Computer Science
Tuesday, December 9, 2025, 9:00 a.m.
Chase 130
Remote Sensing Approaches for Mapping Marine Life in the Gulf of Maine
Jenn Dijkstra
Research Associate Professor
UNH Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping
Friday, December 5, 2025, 3:10 p.m.
Chase 105