Articles
UNH Today
Nov. 13, 2019
CCOM researchers have found that environmental developments of climate change are contributing to the transformation of the seafloor to a lower, patchier seascape dominated by shrub-like seaweed which could impact species habitats and the structure of the food web.
Nautilus Magazine
Nov. 6, 2019
Larry Mayer is interviewed for Nautilus Magazine's blog, "Facts So Romantic."
URI Today
Oct. 23, 2019
CCOM Director Larry Mayer was among those honored with Distinguished Achievement Awards, personifying URI’s tradition of excellence.
Northeast Ocean Data Portal
Oct. 21, 2019
CCOM provided two new bathymetry map layers for the Gulf of Maine which have been released by the Northeast Ocean Data Portal.
UNH Today
Oct. 14, 2019
With a background in jewelry design and metalsmithing, grad student Lynette Davis is using the resources offered at UNH to pursue a different lifestyle and vocation.
UNH Today
Oct. 14, 2019
CCOM Director Larry Mayer shares his journey in his own words.
Communications of the ACM
Oct. 8, 2019
GEBCO Director Rochelle Wigley and CCOM Affiliate Associate Prof. Vicki Ferrini are quoted in this article about mapping the ocean with ASVs and the Seabed 2030 project.
Hydro International
Sep. 30, 2019
The GEBCO-NF Alumni Team met with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe earlier this month to present their winning concept and discuss the future of ocean exploration.
Granite Geek
Sep. 30, 2019
CCOM professor Jennifer Miksis-Olds collaborated with artist Lindsay Olson from Columbia College Chicago on an ocean-based acoustics research cruise last year, which resulted in Olson creating textile art that visually documents the underwater soundscape of sea life in the Atlantic Ocean.
UNH Today
Sep. 27, 2019
CCOM professor Jennifer Miksis-Olds collaborated with artist Lindsay Olson from Columbia College Chicago on an ocean-based acoustics research cruise last year, which resulted in Olson creating textile art that visually documents the underwater soundscape of sea life in the Atlantic Ocean.
UNH Today
Sep. 20, 2019
Members from the UNH team who won the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Sept. 18 to discuss their winning design from the international seafloor mapping challenge.
Hellenic Shipping News
Sep. 20, 2019
Members of the GEBCO-Nippon Foundation Alumni Team met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Wednesday 18 September, to explain the concept that won them the $4m Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE for seafloor mapping and to talk about their shared vision to map the entire seafloor by 2030.
Boston 25 News
Sep. 18, 2019
CCOM Assistant Research Professor Jenn Dijkstra discusses how invasive species are altering the seafloor in the Gulf of Maine.
Yale Environment 360
Aug. 27, 2019
E360’s Arctic correspondent joins a voyage through the Northwest Passage and witnesses a world being transformed, with ice disappearing, balmy temperatures becoming common, and alien invaders – from plastic waste to new diseases – on the rise.
Digital Trends
Aug. 19, 2019
CCOM's ASV BEN is secret weapon in the search for Amelia Earhart's plane.
The Engineer
Aug. 16, 2019
CCOM's autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) is being used by a team of researchers hoping to find the aircraft flown by Amelia Earhart during her round-the-world flight in 1937.
Business Telegraph
Aug. 16, 2019
CCOM's (ASV) is being used by a team of researchers hoping to find the aircraft flown by Amelia Earhart during her round-the-world flight in 1937.
NH Business Review
Aug. 15, 2019
Researchers from CCOM, led by National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Robert Ballard, are part of a team that is setting out to hopefully find answers to questions around the disappearance of famed pilot Amelia Earhart. CCOM's an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) will be used to explore the seafloor in waters that may be too deep for divers.
EurekAlert
Aug. 14, 2019
Researchers from CCOM, led by National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Robert Ballard, are part of a team that is setting out to hopefully find answers to questions around the disappearance of famed pilot Amelia Earhart. CCOM's an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV) will be used to explore the seafloor in waters that may be too deep for divers.
UNH Today
Aug. 14, 2019
CCOM technology aids in latest search for Earhart’s plane.
Concord Monitor
Aug. 13, 2019
A robotic ship from the UNH’s Marine School that can map the ocean floor is part of the latest effort to find out what happened to famed pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared over the Pacific Ocean eight decades ago.
Kristianstad Bladet
Aug. 7, 2019
On Monday, an expedition with scientists on the icebreaker Oden will set course for the Ryder Glacier in northwestern Greenland. Among other things, the expedition will investigate the link between climate change and glaciers.
Deep Carbon Observatory
Aug. 5, 2019
CCOM researchers adapted sonar equipment to quantify the amount of methane bubbling up from the floor of the East Siberian Arctic Sea. If deployed on research vessels more widely, these instruments could provide data for more accurate estimates of the global flux of methane from the ocean floor to the atmosphere.
Sveriges Radio
Aug. 5, 2019
The Swedish ice breaker Oden is leaving Thule, Greenland to head to the Ryder Glacier's fjord system in northwestern Greenland.
Scientific American
Aug. 1, 2019
Five nations are asserting rights to vast, overlapping portions of the Arctic Ocean seafloor. CCOM's Larry Mayer and David Mosher weigh in.