Comit Happenings
A look into the Hydrographic Community Aboard NOAA Ship Nancy Foster
I thoroughly enjoyed the science aspects of the cruise, but I equally enjoyed connecting with different members of the science party and the Nancy Foster crew. When I wasn’t working, you could find me playing a card game, working on a puzzle, or getting destroyed in backgammon.
Seabed Mapping Research on the Blake Plateau
Seabed mapping is a lot more than just acquiring and processing bathymetric data. This was the first time a number of our students participated in a research cruise and there was a lot of new information to assimilate, including the work environment aboard a vessel.
Worlds Collide: Biology meets Hydrography
Everything about the software and protocols used to collect and process bathymetry is still completely new to me. Quite honestly, it felt like I was learning an entirely new language – which was actually quite enthralling!
Uncharted Waters: A Biologist’s Dive into Hydrography Aboard the NOAA Ship Nancy Foster
Life aboard Nancy was not without its challenges. Sleeping on a bunk bed like I was back at summer camp, setting my alarm for 3:30 AM to make it to the 4 AM shift on time, and adding Dramamine to my daily vitamins took some getting used to. Showering was a whole other ordeal. Imagine a game of pinball. Really imagine it. Now, imagine the machine is a shower, and you are the ball.
A Dive into the Tech Support Department
The Nancy Foster is one of the most operationally diverse ships in the NOAA fleet. Based out of Charleston, South Carolina, the crew aboard the Nancy Foster was kind enough to offer students from the University of South Florida, the College of Charleston, and the University of New Hampshire the opportunity to sail with them as they conducted mapping operations this summer.
GeoHab 2023, a reflection on my first international conference
I opened up the French doors to the patio, where I was hit with the perfume of plumeria blooming, and heard the strange calls of new birds. I saw lush greenery and volcanic peaks. I felt the presence of something familiar, an ocean. But there was also a distinct newness. I found myself in the Southern Hemisphere autumn, about 10,000 miles from Florida’s spring…
COMIT Student, Catalina Rubiano’s, Adventure and Exploration on the High-Seas aboard the Okeanos Explorer
Above: COMIT student, Catalina Rubiano, in the mission control room aboard the Okeanos Explorer. Written by, Catalina Rubiano This summer as part of a NOAA Explorer-In-Training internship, I received the incredible opportunity to sail on the NOAA Ship Okeanos...
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...