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MISSION STATEMENT<\/span><\/p>\n

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Themes and Activities<\/h1>\n

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Development of a Coastal Network highlights education via formal academic scholarship, instruction and matriculation, internships, <\/strong>hosting various training modules and <\/strong>facilitating hands-on learning <\/strong>opportunities. This COMIT program focus area also encompasses the development of outreach<\/strong>, media<\/strong> and data products<\/strong> utilized by a wide range of stakeholders.<\/span><\/p>\n

COMIT works to operationalize cutting-edge approaches to seafloor mapping and improve response capacity to coastal hazards, however much of the work that we do would not be possible without the consistent support from and collaboration with federal, state, and local organizations, private individuals, and local businesses<\/strong>. It is through this ever-expanding coastal network that we are able to grow our projects to best suit citizens\u2019 most pressing needs, as well as share our knowledge and skills to assist in training the next generation of hydrographers and mappers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the current projects related to this theme are summarized below:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Steven Murawski and graduate student Jill Thompson-Grim at Oceans Day 2024 in Tallahassee, FL<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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In 2022, the Crowd-Sourced Bathymetry (CSB)<\/strong> project began with utilizing well-established and longtime community connections of the College of Marine Science to recruit and engage participants for a regional-scale citizen science program<\/strong> collecting bathymetry data in Tampa Bay.<\/p>\n

With Phase I: Foundations and Relationship Building (2022 \u2013 2023) and Phase II: Outreach Expansion and Wider Implementation (2023 \u2013 2024) completed, we are now in Phase III: Regional Scale Demonstration.<\/strong> The main objectives are to expand the participant pool, fine-tune protocols, processes, and outreach material based on user feedback, and make available the results and lessons learned from the project.<\/p>\n

COMIT\u2019s CSB program is called Crowd the Bay<\/strong> and has its own website where you can learn more and see real-time crowd-sourced data here: Crowd the Bay<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nancy Foster Training Cruise <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

COMIT has supported over a dozen students<\/strong> on the NOAA ship Nancy Foster. Through collaboration with NOAA Coast Survey (OCS), NOAA\u2019s Center of Excellence for Ocean and Great Lake Mapping, and academic partners, undergraduate and graduate students on the Nancy Foster have the opportunity to gain operational skills and proficiency<\/strong> to support the development and long-range mission of hydrography<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Students spend a week aboard the ship, assisting with the collection of water column data<\/strong>, multibeam bathymetry<\/strong>, and acoustic backscatter<\/strong> used to update NOAA\u2019s nautical charting products<\/strong> from priority areas offshore of South Carolina on the Blake Plateau<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Check out<\/strong> our latest video project from July 15-21, 2024 Nancy Foster<\/strong> participants:<\/p>\n