2022 Webinars
Webinar recordings can be viewed here!
We host a monthly webinar series covering a wide range of topics related to COMIT’s research goals including: safe navigation; women in hydrography; advanced technology/engineering in seafloor mapping and exploration; as well as issues and opportunities in the field related to diversity, equity, & inclusion.
Click the images below to read the full abstracts and bios for our speakers (avail. 1 month prior to webinar date)
Dr. Johnson Oguntuase (Univ. of S. Mississippi)
March 23rd – Spatially Advancing Ocean Mapping Using Emerging Technologies
Dr. Leslie Sautter (College of Charleston)
May 25th – Building the New Ocean Survey Workforce: The BEAMS Program
Dr. Morteza Karimzadeh (Univ. of Colorado)
[Rescheduled Date] November 9th – High-Resolution Mapping of Arctic Sea Ice using Deep Learning
Jennifer Jencks (NOAA/NCEI, IHO)
August 24th – Encouraging Innovative Supplementary Data Gathering: The International Hydrographic Organization Crowdsourced Bathymetry Initiative
Dr. Rachel Gittman (East Carolina Univ.)
[Rescheduled Date] December 14th – Evaluating socio-ecological functions provided by novel, nature-based coastal protection approaches
Dr. Matthew Johnson-Roberson (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)
October 26th – Lessons from the Field: Deep Learning and Machine Perception for AUVs