Saildrone in the water with green hills of the coast in the background.
Saildrone Completes World-First Uncrewed Alaska Ocean Mapping Mission

The Saildrone Surveyor completed a months-long survey of more than 45,000 km2 of the ocean floor off the California coast and around Alaska’s Aleutian Islands—addressing ocean exploration gaps in remote areas. CCOM is a partner of NOAA’s Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI), which operationally managed the project.

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ASV BEN floats serenely in the Rogers City, MI marina with the water reflecting BEN and the sky.
BEN Helps Discover 1894 Shipwreck in Lake Huron

CCOM researchers were on hand with the BEN ASV to assist the world-renowned team that found the pristine shipwreck of the three-masted Ironton, deep in Lake Huron.

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Still from Larry Mayer's presentation showing Larry in small frame and his slide on the OECI Tech Challenge in a large frame.
Multi-vehicle Operations at Sea

CCOM director Larry Mayer recently presented an overview of CCOM's use of uncrewed surface vehicles for ocean mapping and exploration for the Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute. His presentation, "Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute (OECI) Multi-vehicle Operations – A UNH Perspective," is now available for on-line viewing. Enjoy!

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Women Power NOAA Hydrography

JHC Co-Director Andy Armstrong co-authored this article for Hydro International about the ever-expanding role of women in NOAA hydrography.

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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 (center) 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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CCOM/JHC in the News

Saildrone Completes World-first Uncrewed Alaska Ocean Mapping Mission
Seapower Magazine
Mar. 7, 2023

The Saildrone Surveyor, the world’s largest uncrewed ocean mapping vehicle, surveyed more than 45,000 km2 of previously unknown ocean floor around Alaska’s Aleutian Islands and off the California coast to address ocean exploration gaps in remote areas.

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University of New Hampshire Robot Helped Discover 19th Century Shipwreck Submerged Under Lake Huron
Boston Globe
Mar. 2, 2023

BEN, an autonomous surface vehicle operated by CCOM's ASV Team played a key role in the discovery of the Ironton, a 19th-century shipwreck submerged hundreds of feet in Lake Huron. The discovery, made in 2019, was publicly confirmed after painstaking visual documentation was recently completed.

 

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UNH Research Team Helps Discover Shipwreck from 1894 in One of the Great Lakes
WMUR
Mar. 1, 2023

CCOM ASV Team Leader Val Schmidt discusses the discovery of the Ironton in Lake Huron.

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Upcoming and Recent Seminars

An Efficient and Robust Real-Time Calibration Routine for Inter-Sensor Offsets Within Integrated Multibeam Systems
Brandon Maingot
Ph.D. Thesis Proposal Defense

Ocean Engineering

Friday, Mar. 31, 2023, 12:00pm
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Dynamics of Synthetic Mooring Lines for Blue Economy Systems
Krish Sharman
Prof. & Endowed Chair in Renewable Energy

Dept. of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
UMass Amherst

Friday, Mar. 31, 2023, 3:10pm
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Evolution of Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) Models to Coupled Weather-Ocean-Hydrologic Forecast Modeling Systems
Stan Benjamin

Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
NOAA Global Systems Laboratory

Friday, Mar. 10, 2023, 3:10pm
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Recent Publications

User-Centered Design of Nautical Chart Symbols
Christos Kastrisios; Stilianos Contarinis; Thomas Butkiewicz; Byron Nakos; Briana M. Sullivan; Colby Harmon; Ence Christie; Megan Bartlett
Efforts to Streamline Bathymetry Compilation for Marine Navigation
Christos Kastrisios
Efforts for Developing Symbology for New S-1xx PS
Christos Kastrisios; Stilianos Contarinis; Thomas Butkiewicz; Byron Nakos; Briana M. Sullivan; Colby Harmon; Ence Christie; Megan Bartlett

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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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