Comit Happenings
Tampa Bay Nested Survey Project – Student Blog #3
Me at my desk at CMS, creating digital ecosystems!Written by: Bea Combs-Hintze, PhD student with Drs. David Naar & Steve Murawski. It’s all about Balance – in life, and in modeling I am expecting my first child at the end of the month. (Deep breaths.) Life these...
COMIT Wraps Integrative Topographic and Bathymetric Survey of Lower Tampa Bay
Above: Hobie Boeschenstein from SeaTrac piloting the SP-48. The Center for Ocean Mapping and Innovative Technologies (COMIT), an element of the University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science in St. Petersburg, recently completed a four-week field...
Tampa Bay Nested Survey Project – Student Blog #2
The chase boat making its way through thick fog which persisted during several days of our survey. Written by: Catalina Rubiano; Master's student with Dr. Alastair Graham. It’s the end of my third semester as a Master’s student at the College of Marine Science, and...
Tampa Bay Nested Survey Project – Student Blog #1
Me (far left) and my fellow COMIT students (from left, Catalina Rubiano, Bea Combs, Steven Paul, and Rosemary Burkhalter-Castro), plus CMS research staff member, Heather Broadbent, PhD (far right). Photo credit: Sarah Grasty Written by: Catherine Dietrick; Doctoral...
Mapping the Big Bend – Student Blog #3
Sunset during our last night. As a new marine science graduate student this Fall at USF College of Marine Science, I was very excited to embark upon my first research cruise experience. This was also my first time doing a hydrographic survey, so anticipation was high....
Mapping the Big Bend – Student Blog #2
Me reeling in the underway sound velocity profiler, a key piece of equipment on a mapping cruise. Our team has been underway for four days during which time we have been mapping in a target area outlined by NOAA’s Office of Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping (IOCM)...
Mapping the Big Bend – Student Blog #1
The R/V WT Hogarth docked at USF CMS before we left on November 10, 2021.If you’ve ever wondered what living at sea feels like, asking a marine scientist is good start. As a marine science graduate student at USF College of Marine Science (USF CMS), I can tell you...
COMIT Scientists ‘Map the Gaps’
Above: Chief Scientist, Matthew Hommeyer (left), and FIO Science Technician, Andrew Warren, prepare to deploy the underway sound velocity profiler (underway SVP) towfish aboard the R/V W.T. Hogarth in February 2021. After three postponements due to COVID-19 and a slew...
HSRP Meeting Recap
Dr. Steve Murawski had the pleasure of presenting at NOAA's Hydrographic Services Review Panel's (HSRP) spring meeting, March 3 - 4, 2021. The slides presented on behalf of COMIT can be viewed here. The focus of the first day’s session was Coastal Data and Information...