Photo of the ASV Maxlimer on still water.
Next in XPRIZE

The GEBCO-NF XPRIZE team has qualified for the final round of the $7m XPRIZE competition to find the innovative ocean mapping technologies.

Photo courtesy of the BBC.

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New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration

The annual ocean exploration supplement to Oceanography is out! This beautiful publication highlights the 2017 field season of the E/V Nautilus, the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, and the R/V Falkor. Our collaboration with these vessels is integral to our work at CCOM and many of our researchers contributed to these stories of discovery.

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Kerri Seger in red jacket on the deck of a ship holding a acoustic instrument.
The Whale Listener

Dr. Kerri Seger has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant to conduct a passive acoustic monitoring study near a humpback whale breeding ground in Columbia.

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Spring Seminar Schedule

The Spring 2018 Seminar Series is underway. Click "Learn More" to see the schedule of upcoming talks. All are welcome!

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Photo of Larry in sitting in the bow of a small boat in the Petermann Fjord with icebergs in the background.
Larry Mayer Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Congratulations to Dr. Larry Mayer who has been elected to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine for development of techniques and technologies for coastal, Arctic and ocean floor mapping. This is among the highest professional distinctions accorded an engineer.

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CCOM/JHC in the News

INFOMAR Sets Sail on Survey to Map the Celtic Sea Seabed
Coast Monkey
Apr. 23, 2018

John Hughes Clarke joins an INFORMAR cruise aboard the Celtic Explorer.

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Ready for the Future
UNH Cooperative Extension
Apr. 23, 2018

Students put STEM skills into action at the Seacoast SeaPerch Challenge.

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URI Creates Consortium with Two Major Institutions to Operate Endeavor and Submit Proposal for New Research Vessel
URI Today
Apr. 16, 2018

The University of Rhode Island has created the East Coast Oceanographic Consortium with WHOI and UNH to jointly operate the R/V Endeavor for its final years and to submit a proposal to operate a new ship, which would be based at URI’s Narragansett Bay Campus.

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Upcoming and Recent Seminars

Submesoscale Lateral Dispersion by Internal Waves and Vortical Mode
Miles A. Sundermeyer

School for Marine Science and Technology
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Friday, Apr. 27, 2018, 3:10pm
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Demonstrating Bathymetry from a Cylindrical Array Echo Sounder
Glen Rice
Physical Scientist

NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey
Hydrographic Systems and Technology

Friday, Apr. 20, 2018, 3:10pm
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Hark the Herald Bubbles Ring: A Direct Assessment of Bubble-Mediated Methane Flux Using Wideband Acoustics
Elizabeth Weidner
Master of Science Defense

CCOM/JHC

Thursday, Apr. 19, 2018, 8:00am
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Recent Publications

A Bathymetry- and Reflectivity-Based Approach for Seafloor Segmentation
Giuseppe Masetti; Larry A. Mayer; Larry G. Ward
Working with Video to Improve Deep-Sea Habitat Characterization
Peter J. Etnoyer; Mashkoor A. Malik; Derek Sowers; Caitlin Ruby; Rachel Bassett; Jennifer A. Dijkstra; Nikolai Pawlenko; Susan Gottfried; Kristen Mello; Mark Finkbeiner; Angela Sallis
Bottom Characterization by Using Airborne Lidar Bathymetry (ALB) Waveform Features Obtained from Bottom Return Residual Analysis
Firat Eren; S. Pe'eri; Yuri Rzhanov; Larry G. Ward

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Spotlight on...

Manage Your Sound Speed
Sound Speed Manager streamlines the use of sound speed profiles in survey acquisition and data processing. The app provides support for commonly-used formats, model-based profile enhancement, and database management with built-in functionalities for analysis and visualization. Sound Speed Manager is an open-source project jointly developed by CCOM and NOAA Coast Survey Development Laboratory.
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