Elias Adediran between two colleagues at the Marine Technology Society booth at the OCEDANS 2022 conference.
Elias Adediran Emerges as a Leader

CCOM master's student Elias Adediran was selected to be part of the inaugural class of the Marine Technology Society (MTS) and IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society’s (IEEE OES) Emerging Leaders in Marine Technology Program (EMERGE). Elias received the appointment at the OCEANS 2022 Conference in Virginia Beach, VA. Congratulations Elias!

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Larry Mayer stands before a bathymetric image projected on a large, multi-monitor immersive displayh.
Seabed 2030

So much has been accomplished since the ambitious plan to completely map the seafloor by 2030 began in 2017. We still have far to go but with CCOM as one of the major players, we believe it will happen.

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Colin Ware sitting in front of a multi-monitor display showing the track of a whale's dive.
The Work of a Lifetime

CCOM professor emeritus and former VisLab director Colin Ware has received the 2022 Visualization Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee. Congratulations Colin!

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Photo of Cassie Bongiovanni pointing to a bathymetric rendering on a monitor.
Get to Know Cassie Bongiovanni

CCOM alum Cassie Bongiovanni takes the spotlight in this feature from the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space. 

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Photo of Annie Hartwell from the side as she looks at a monitor displaying visual ocean data.
Why Mapping Matters

Why are detailed maps of the seafloor important? CCOM Ph.D. student Anne Hartwell is one of the ocean explorers who were asked this question by E/V Nautilus Communication Fellows. Click through to see her answers.

(Photo from Ocean Exploration Trust)

 

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CCOM/JHC in the News

Research Shows COVID-19 Lockdown Did Not Lead to Quieter Offshore Ocean
Phys Org
Nov. 3, 2022

Here is an update on some of the discoveries made by CCOM research professor Jen Miksis-Olds and her team about ocean noise levels during the pandemic.

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Shipping Sounds
UNH Today
Nov. 3, 2022

New data presented in a paper published by CCOM research professor Jen Miksis-Olds reveals that the COVID-19 lockdown did not lead to a quieter offshore ocean.

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A Career's Work Recognized
UNH Today
Oct. 31, 2022

CCOM professor emeritus Colin Ware has been selected to receive the Visualization Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee. 

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Upcoming and Recent Seminars

A Social-Ecological Approach to the Development of Integrated Offshore Aquaculture/Wind Energy Systems
Barry Antonio Nunes da Costa-Pierce
President and CEO

Ecological Aquaculture Foundation LLC

Friday, Dec. 2, 2022, 3:10pm
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Turbulent Dissipation in Coastal Environments
Nick Nidzieko
Associate Professor, Geography

Marine Science Institute
UC Santa Barbara

Friday, Nov. 18, 2022, 3:10pm
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Connecting Sea and Shore: Development of a Teleoperation Framework Using the Hybrid ROV NUI
Dr. Allisa Dalpe
Research Engineer

Deep Submergence Laboratory
WHOI

Friday, Nov. 4, 2022, 3:10pm
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Recent Publications

Denmark's Depth Model: Compilation of Bathymetric Data within the Danish Waters
Giuseppe Masetti; Ove Andersen; Nicki R. Andreasen; Philip S. Christiansen; Marcus A. Cole; James P. Harris; Kasper Langdahl; Lasse M. Schwenger; Ian B. Sonne
A Geographic Segmentation Approach for Satellite Derived Bathymetry
Juliane Affonso
Modeling the Effect of Random Roughness on Synthetic Aperture Sonar Image Statistics
Anthony P. Lyons; D. R. Olson; Roy E. Hansen

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Spotlight on...

QAX: An Innovative Tool for Quality Assurance in Ocean Mapping
An open-source project — jointly steered by AusSeabed, NOAA OCS and UNH CCOM — has recently released the first version of QAX, an innovative tool to facilitate quality assurance of seabed mapping data.
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