Lautenbacher at UNH console

Retired Navy Vice Admiral Conrad Lautenbacher (center), Ph.D., undersecretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator, gets an introduction to the console at UNH by Dr. Larry Mayer (right) and Dr. Brian Calder, both of UNH, CCOM.  The photo was taken during a live interaction between four of the shore based consoles (URI, UNH, PMEL, and Silver Spring, MD) as they interacted with Dr. Robert Ballard and Webb Pinner of NOAA OE, at sea during a 2006 expedition to survey for ancient shipwrecks in the Sea of Crete. Photo courtesy of NOAA.

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