The Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping/Joint Hydrographic Center, located at the University of New Hampshire, is a national center of expertise in ocean mapping and hydrographic sciences.
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3 Minute Thesis Competition
We are incredibly proud of grad students Hailey Gilman and Natalie Cook who crushed it in the UNH Three Minute Thesis Competition! Hailey is advancing to the finals which will be held this Thursday, March 26, 5:00-7:00 p.m. Attendance is free (registration is required) or you join the live broadcast.
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Mapping in Arctic Waters
In this video from Seabed 2030, CCOM researcher Kevin Jerram is one of the expedition members aboard the I/B Oden who gives us a glimpse of what it's like to map the ocean floor in Arctic waters.
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Apply for Next Year's NF/GEBCO Training Program!
Nominations are now being accepted for the 23rd year of the Nippon Foundation/GEBCO Training Program for international students. The course, which will begin in late August 2026, leads to a Graduate Certificate in Ocean Mapping. Applications will be accepted until April 19, 2026. Join us!
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Congratulations Jenna!
At the end of the fall semester, Jenna Ehnot successfully defended her master's thesis in ocean engineering with, "Now You See It: Evaluating a Small Object Detection Model for Uncrewed Surface Vehicle Operations."
Research
Education
Outreach
Deep-Sea History
UNH Magazine, March 3, 2026
How the S-100 Framework Can Enable True Autonomy for USVs
Hydro International, March 2, 2026
UNH Breaks Ground on Ocean Mapping Center of Excellence
UNH News, February 3, 2026
What's at the Bottom of Lake Erie?
Erie Reader, January 27, 2026
Urban Coast Institute Honors Mayer
UNH Today, October 14, 2025
Scientists Use ROV to Explore Bottom of Lake Erie Off Eastern Erie County
Erie Times-News, October 10, 2025
How Multibeam Echosounder Platform Choice Controls Mapping Resolution
Adediran, E., Hydro International #4 - 2025 BUSINESS GUIDE, 2026.
Mapping Coral Reef Habitats with ICESat-2 and Satellite Imagery: A Novel Spectral Unmixing Approach Compared to Machine Learning
Trudeau, G.A., Lyon, M., Lowell, K., Dijkstra, J.A., Remote Sens. 17(21), 3623, 2025.
Unlocking Hydrographic Data Throughput
Wilson, M., Faulkes, T., Masetti, G., Hydro International, 3(29). 2025.
Automated Islands Generalization Techniques for Nautical Charts
Nada, T., Kastrisios, C., Calder, B., Ence, C., Greene, C., Bethell, A., Geo-Spatial Information Science, 1–14. 2025.
Upper Ocean Currents
Dr. Nicholas Pizzo, Assistant Professor
URI Graduate School of Oceanography
Friday, April 3, 2026, 3:10pm
Chase 105
On the Response of a Free Surface Perturbed by a Positively-Buoyant Vertical Jet
Zeeshan Saeed, Ph.D. Candidate
UNH Department of Mechanical Engineering
Friday, March 27, 2026, 3:10pm
Chase 105
You, Too, Can Map the Ocean! (Crowdsourced Bathymetry and the WIBL Project)
Dr. Brian R. Calder, Research Professor & Associate Director
UNH Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
Friday, March 13, 2026, 3:10pm
Chase 105