Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping / Joint Hydrographic Center

05/22/2026

Did you miss Adriano Fonseca's lively defense of his dissertation proposal yesterday? Well, you're in luck because we posted the recording right away. You can now watch, "Subsampled Graph-Based Bathymetric Data Processing," at https://youtu.be/dOYrCzimBqw Enjoy!

UNH School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering
UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space - UNH EOS

Adriano Fonseca defended his doctoral dissertation proposal in Ocea...

05/21/2026

Dedication! ASV Team Lead Val Schmidt snapped this amazing photo of night work on the DriX-8. Val says they've been conducting a major overhaul of the ASV. After 5 years of service with little time between Western Pacific Field deployments, DriX-8 was shipped home and they are attempting to address long-outstanding repairs and several system upgrades that will hopefully improve the reliability and operational capability of the system. The team has been preparing for this effort for the past six months and, for the last two and a half weeks, they've had on-site support from Exail. Last night they brought DriX-8 outside for the first time to run the engine, talk with the satellites, and begin a long list of systems checks to ensure everything is fully operational before they take DriX-8 down to the pier.
UNH School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering
UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space - UNH EOS

05/18/2026

CCOM grad student Adriano Fonseca will defend his Ph.D. thesis proposal this Thursday, May 21, at 9:00 a.m. Join us in Chase 130 when Adriano will present, “Subsampled Graph-Based Bathymetric Data Processing,” or use the link for the live broadcast. All are welcome!

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UNH School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering
UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space - UNH EOS

05/12/2026

CCOM alum Commander John Kidd talks about NOAA's Navigation Response Teams as the guest on the latest NOAA Ocean Podcast.

In the latest NOAA Ocean Podcast, we interview Commander John Kidd, who led NOAA’s Navigation Response Teams for the past three years. Strategically located around the country, our Navigation Response Teams remain on call to respond to emergencies, speeding the resumption of shipping after storms, and protecting life and property from underwater dangers to navigation.

Hear how these teams get to disaster zones, the coordination and science behind reopening a port after a hurricane, and more here: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/podcast/may26/nop83-navigation-response-team.html

05/12/2026

The GEBCO_2026 Grid is available for download. Go get it!

The General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) aims to provide the most authoritative, publicly available bathymetry data sets for the world's oceans.

05/12/2026

Our colleague Rochelle Wigley and our good friend Denis Hains took the stage at the Canadian Hydro Conference to talk about the importance of the initiative.

05/11/2026

Mark your calendars! This year's Ocean Discover Day will be held October 23-24. Friday the 23rd is student day, then we open our doors to the public on Saturday. Come and see us!

Ocean Discovery Day provides visitors with an opportunity to explore the wonders of the ocean through interactive exhibits and demonstrations. Visitors can make a fish print, band a lobster, touch a horseshoe crab and see the plankton that form the b

05/11/2026

Congratulations to our CCOM colleagues—Dan Tauriello, Erin Selner, Paul Johnson, Carlo Jose Lanzoni, and Wendy Monroe—and to those who work along side us and share our home in the Chase Ocean Engineering Lab.

05/08/2026

Seminar coordinator Elias Adediran gave the final seminar of the year with, "It’s Not Just Depth: Estimating Uncertainty in Interpolated Bathymetry." If you weren't able to attend in person, you can now watch the video recording at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC_6LWeO9Xo. Enjoy!

From the UNH Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping/Center for Ocean Engineering Center's 2024-2025 Seminar Series: Elias Adediran, a doctoral researcher in ocea...

05/08/2026

Did you miss Joe Wilder's master's defense presentation, "Generalizable Bathymetric Lidar Representation Learning Using Self-Supervised Pre-Training"? Well, you're in luck because the video recording is now available. Enjoy!

Joe Wilder defended his master's thesis in Computer Science with, "Generalizable Bathymetric Lidar Representation Learning Using Self-Supervised Pre-Training...