Join us for a day at UNH!

10:30am -12:15pm Expedition Talk and Lab Tour with TEC Fellow Larry Mayer

Larry Mayer (FN ‘17), Director of the Center of Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM) at the University of New Hampshire invites you to visit the lab. Larry will report on his recently completed Explorers Club Flag Expedition on the Swedish Icebreaker ODEN which made it to Victoria and Nordenskiold Fjords in northern Greenland, further than any ship had ever traveled before in the Lincoln Sea. Once there, they spent several weeks, mapping and making a myriad of other measurements aimed at understanding the processes responsible for the rapid melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

He will also offer a brief tour of the lab facilities, including its Visualization Lab, world-renowned for developing innovative approaches for the 3- and 4-D visualization of ocean data. At the same time, the lab is running a program that involves the simultaneous operation of two large (8m long) robotic vessels mapping in the Gulf of Maine. The Remote Operations Center is in the lab and if time permits, we can pop in and see what they are up to.

12:15pm-1:00pm Picnic Lunch

Bring your own picnic and enjoy lunch together on the UNH campus.

1:00pm-2:30pm Hike with Maine Guide and TEC Member John Henkelman

John Henkelman (MN ‘21) is Maine Guide and Natural Resources Management Ph.D. student at UNH.

He will take us out on a hike to explore the college woods, an educational area on campus for forestry, environmental science, and recreation to name a few. The trail is a wide gravel path with many options to choose from depending on the interests/needs of the group.