Working from a Sailboat

• Main Authors: Mayer, Larry, Schmidt, Val
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 2013
• Subjects: Greenland
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/ccom_seminars/125; https://scholars.unh.edu/context/ccom_seminars/article/1124/type/native/viewcontent/126.jpg_AWSAccessKeyId_AKIAYVUS7KB2IXSYB4XB_Signature_qCRNaNYXqf3F6fM49tQ9TWGJlF0_3D_Expires_1725029618

A CCOM double feature! Director Larry Mayer and Research Project Engineer Val Schmidt both worked aboard sailing vessels this summer and will share their experiences. Larry will present, "Mapping the Northern Margin of Greenland and Searching for the Vega from the 51’ Sailboat Explorer of Sweden," while Val will present, "Journey to the Aegean: Searching for Ancient Civilization Aboard the STS Bodrum." Presenter Bio Larry Mayer has a broad-based background in marine geology and geophysics that is reflected in his association with both the Ocean Engineering and Earth Science Departments. He graduated magna cum laude with an Honors degree in Geology from the University of Rhode Island in 1973 and received a Ph.D. from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in Marine Geophysics in 1979. At Scripps his schizophrenic future was determined as he worked with the Marine Physical Laboratory's Deep-Tow Geophysical package, but applied this sophisticated acoustic sensor to problems of the history of ocean climate. After being selected as an astronaut candidate finalist for NASA's first class of mission specialists, he went on to a Post-Doc at the School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island where he worked on problems of deep-sea sediment transport and paleoceanography of the equatorial Pacific. In 1982, he became an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Oceanography at Dalhousie University and, in 1991, moved to the University of New Brunswick to take up the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Ocean Mapping. In 2000, he became the founding director of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire and the co-director of the NOAA/UNH Joint Hydrographic Center. Dr. Mayer has participated in more than 90 cruises (over 70 months at sea!) during the last 40 years and has been chief or co-chief scientist of numerous expeditions including two legs of the Ocean Drilling Program and seven cruises on the USCG Icebreaker Healy mapping unexplored regions of the Arctic seafloor in support of a ...