The CCOM ASV Team was were part of a multi-institutional effort that discovered an intact shipwreck from the 19th century hundreds of feet below the surface of Lake Huron.

The role of women in hydrography is increasing worldwide. In 2022, NOAA participated in the international Empowering Women in Hydrography (EWH) programme initiated by Canada and the International Hydrographic Organization, by sponsoring three early career hydrographers for underway experience aboard NOAA hydrographic ships.

Map the Gaps, a global community of ocean explorers, conservationists, educators, and early-career scientists, is approaching ocean discovery through networking, diversity, and wide-ranging projects.

Deep ocean missions, like the Okeanos Explorer's, explore little-known — or just never-visited — places on Earth.

Before heading out to sea, researchers practice for emergencies with marine safety drills in the Chase engineering tank.

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.

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. 

Shannon Hoy, a NOAA Physical Scientist, lends her expertise as Popular Science checks in on progress towards one of our most ambitious promises—mapping the seafloor.

The Aleutians Uncrewed Ocean Exploration expedition, a public-private partnership facilitated and led by the NOAA OECI, is collecting ocean mapping and environmental data in unexplored waters around the Aleutian Islands with the innovative Saildrone Surveyor—the world’s largest and most advanced uncrewed surface vessel for ocean exploration. CCOM, along with Saildrone Inc. and NOAA Ocean Exploration staff, will manage at-sea operations. All work conducted will contribute to the Seascape Alaska regional mapping campaign.

The Aleutians Uncrewed Ocean Exploration expedition, a public-private partnership facilitated and led by the NOAA OECI, will collect ocean mapping and environmental data in unexplored waters around the Aleutian Islands with the Saildrone Surveyor.

Twelve CCOM scientists and student are aboard the E/V Nautilus as part of a 23-day seafloor mapping expedition in the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.