Fahima Bellabad flexes a bicep on the deck of the Pourquoi Pas?
Fahima Bellabad in IHO's Empowering Women in Hydrography Program

This summer, GEBCO Scholar Fahima Bellabad sailed off the coast of Portugal aboard the IFREMER vessel Pourquoi Pas? as part of the IHO's Empowering Women in Hydrography program. 

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Photos of the USCGC Healy, the sea in front of the Healy's bow, Kaan and Andrew posing in Nome, AK, and a historical chart.
USCGC Healy - 2024 Arctic Deployment Student Blog

CCOM master's students Kaan Cav and Andrew Niedbala are aboard the USCGC Healy as part of the scientific party to support mapping efforts of the U.S. exclusive economic zone north of Alaska and to support the Arctic Port Access Route Study (PARS). Check out their blog for more about their adventures!

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Red USV DriX in the ocean.
Two DriX Are Better than One

Get all the details about the upcoming Dual DriX Project in the Gulf of Maine where uncrewed surface vehicles DriX 12 and DriX 23 will be tested in ocean mapping and data acquisition with shore-based operations.

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Red USV DriX moving through the water with the E/V Nautilus in the background.
OECI Renewed for Five More Years

The Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI) has been renewed for five more years by NOAA Ocean Exploration! CCOM is proud to be part of this collaboration with the URI Graduate School of Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), the University of New Hampshire, and The University of Southern Mississippi. 

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Left: close-up for raven's head in profile. Right: Liz releasing white balloon on Oden's deck.
The Hours In-Between

To combat the exhaustion and monotony that can come with an extended time at sea, the GEOEO24 crew and science personnel find ways to keep things light. 

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CCOM/JHC in the News

Autonomous Boats Will be Exploring the Gulf of Maine
Granite Geek
Oct. 1, 2024

In October, NOAA,CCOM and additional partners from the federal government, academia and the private sector will test the simultaneous, remote operation of two DriX uncrewed surface vessels to map and explore in the Gulf of Maine.

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Icebreaker Oden Makes Landmark Journey to Isolated Fjord in North Greenland
Hydro International
Sep. 10, 2024

The 2024 GEOEO North of Greenland Expedition, organized by the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat aboard the I/B Oden, has made history as the first vessel to reach the remote Victoria Fjord in North Greenland. 

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New seamount and species discovered in Nazca Ridge
Dive Magazine
Sep. 10, 2024

A team of CCOM hydrographers conducted high-resolution mapping of a seamount discovered during Schmidt Ocean Institute’s latest expedition to the Nazca Ridge, an underwater Pacific mountain chain located approximately 1450km (900 miles) off the coast of Chile.

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Upcoming and Recent Seminars

Tiny Machine Learning for Energy-Restricted Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
Yuchou Chang
Assistant Professor

Computer & Information Science Dept.
UMass Dartmouth

Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, 3:10pm
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From Greenland to American Samoa: A Summary of Summer 2024 Expeditions with HROV Nereid Under Ice and AUV Sentry
Allisa Dalpe
Research Engineer

Deep Submergence Laboratory
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, 3:10pm
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Ships, Boats, and Helicopters: GeoEO24 Mapping of Victoria Fjord, Greenland
Larry Mayer, Brian Calder, and Elizabeth Weidner

CCOM/JHC

Friday, Oct. 18, 2024, 3:10pm
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Spotlight on...

CCOM Spotlight: QC Tools 4 Release
Just released! QC Tools 4 has direct support for NOAA’s new hydrographic survey specifications and enables its automated compliance. QC Tools functions that provide QA/QC to bathymetric grids and feature files now have settings configured to the new NOAA Quality Metrics introduced in the HSSD 2024.
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