In June, UNH added the R/V Gulf Surveyor, a 48-foot aluminum vessel with the capability to deploy sophisticated multi-beam echo sounders, to its research fleet. The vessel will help researchers map the coastal seafloor and better understand the ocean environment while providing training in the latest oceanographic practices.
UNH MARINE SCIENCE IN THE SPOTLIGHT...
• President Barack Obama named School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering (SMSOE) director Larry Mayer to the U.S. Arctic Research Commission.
• SMSOE associate director of research Jennifer Miksis-Olds, a marine acoustician, was tapped to lead a multimillion-dollar federal contract to establish the Atlantic Deepwater Ecosystem Observatory Network.
• Jon Pennock, director of New Hampshire Sea Grant for a decade and SMSOE deputy director, was named director of NOAA’s National Sea Grant College Program.
