Diving Program
Underwater Research Program
The heart of UNH diving is its scientific diving program, which exists to serve scientists, professors and students in their scientific endeavors. UNH supports diving projects year round with faculty and student researchers conducting projects all over the world. Support for these projects consists of training for divers to become capable of working underwater.
Individuals may become UNH scientific divers by taking a UNH sanctioned training course (KIN 735, or 730), or by coming from another AAUS institution as an approved scientific diver. Some of our recent projects include:
- Open Ocean Aquaculture (Michael Chambers - Rich Langan - Hunt Howell)
- Seagrass (Fred Short and graduate students Gaeckle, Rivers, Ochieng)
- Oyster Reef Restoration (Ray Grizzle)
- Lobster (Win Watson and grad students Scopel, Rillihan, Gloet)
- Skate Tracking (Hunt Howell and student Biron)
- Flounder Stock Enhancement (Hunt Howell and Elizabeth Fairchild)
- Urchins and Basic Benthic Ecology (Larry Harris and grad student Djikstra)
- Ocean Mapping/Ground Truthing (Larry Mayer and grad students Cutter, Brennan)