Bathymetric chart of the Arctic Ocean.
A Better View Below

Scientists from CCOM and around the globe have published the most detailed map to date of the Arctic Ocean seafloor.

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Aerial view of Bikini Atoll.
Satellite's Green Laser is a Game Changer

In this Science article about NASA’s ICESat-2 satellite, Research Assistant Professor Jenn Dijkstra and affiliate faculty member Chris Parrish discuss its potential uses for shallow water mapping and tracking coral reef health.

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Illlustration depicting BEN on the surface with a cone of light revealing the lakebed with a shipwreck and fish.
BEN Takes on Shipwreck Alley

Matthew Braga, a writer for The Verge, gives an indepth view of BEN and the ASV team's work in Thunder Bay.

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Artist's rendering of the Saildrone ASV on the surface and showing details of the seafloor in the path of the multibeam sonar.
Three-Year Grant Will Provide Smooth Sailing for Application Development

CCOM has been awarded a three-year grant by NOAA's OER to partner with Saildrone, Inc. and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to develop applications for a new 72-foot, wind-powered, sailboat-like ASV.

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Ryder 2019

CCOM researchers were aboard the I/B Oden where they joined an expedition whose aim was to answer questions about the role of outlet glaciers in draining the Greenland Ice Sheet into the ocean, and to look for historical changes of the glacier to show how climate change affects the marine cryosphere.

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CCOM/JHC in the News

The IBCAO 4.0 Bathymetric Chart: New Depth Map of the Arctic Ocean
Hydro International
Sep. 15, 2020

Scientists from CCOM and around the globe have published the most detailed map to date of the Arctic Ocean seafloor.

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UNH Gets $38.5 Million Federal Grant for Coastal Mapping Center
Foster's Daily Democrat
Aug. 27, 2020

Jeanne Shaheen announces the the Center has been awarded a five-year NOAA grant.

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Sea-Kit's Uncrewed Surface Vessel Ends 22-Day Offshore Mission
Offshore Engineer
Aug. 18, 2020

The recent unmanned SEA-KIT survey off the coast of the UK credits the NF/GEBCO alumni mapping team's "global distribution" for its round-the-clock operations.

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Upcoming and Recent Seminars

'Real-Time Current Profiles in Support of Offshore Oil and Gas Operations
Archie T. Morrison III
Senior Ocean Engineer

Woods Hole Group, Inc.
A CLS Group Company

Friday, Sep. 25, 2020, 3:10pm
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Potential for Non-Conventional Use of Split-Beam Phase Data in Bottom Detection
Leonardo Gomes de Araujo

Thesis Defense
Master of Science
Earth Sciences - Ocean Mapping

Thursday, Sep. 24, 2020, 2:00pm
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Raytheon Sea Power Systems, Missiles and Defense
Hardy Hartwell
Mechanical Engineering Fellow

Raytheon Technologies

Friday, Sep. 18, 2020, 3:10pm
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Spotlight on...

ePOM
The e-learning Python for Ocean Mapping (ePOM) project provides collections of Jupyter notebooks to learn Python with a focus on Ocean Mapping.
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