July 12, 2017
Hello Coast Survey,
We had an exciting week last week as we hosted NOAA’s first open house on nautical cartography in conjunction with the 28th annual International Cartographic Conference 2017. The open house was held on Friday, July 7, in the Science Center here in Silver Spring. We featured posters, presentations, and tours focusing on nautical cartography, highlighting the field of charting and GIS. We were very pleased with the level of interest in this event from industry partners such as CaGIS and GEBCO, government agencies such as U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Navy, and international charting offices representing over twenty countries.
I would like to thank Dr. Shachak Pe’eri, MCD’s Charting Standards Branch chief, for planning this open house. There were several other individuals that helped set up and run the event including Sean Legeer, Megan Bartlett, Sladjana Maksimovic, Guillaume Auclert, Andres Garrido, Patrick Chauvet, John Macek, Christie Ence, Paul Gionis, John Barber, Maria Cicci, Julio Castillo, Allison Wittrock, Tara Wallace, Kristen Crossett, Tsering Chuki and Rachel Medley. Without you, this event would have been impossible. Coast Survey is hosting many of the international open house participants this week for a training course on nautical chart adequacy, also organized by Dr. Pe’eri.
As a global leader in nautical charting and hydrographic standards, Coast Survey values much of the work being done through organizations like the International Hydrographic Organization, United Nations GGIM, and International Cartographic Association to name a few. It is important to spend time building relationships through the exchange of ideas with both national and international partners as an investment in Coast Survey’s future.
John Nyberg
Marine Chart Division Chief
Acting Director, Office of Coast Survey
Patrick Keown recently started as the Coast Survey Development Lab's (CSDL) geospatial data program manager. This is a new position on the CSDL staff focused on developing processes, policy, and systems for Coast Survey's geospatial data holdings and activities. Patrick comes to us from Hydrographic Surveys Division where he worked as a physical scientist in the Operations Branch. Prior to working at NOAA, he was a geographer and GIS specialist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Ensign Shelley Devereaux reported yesterday as CSDL's Hydrographic Systems Technology Branch's West Coast field support liaison. ENS Devereaux just departed NOAA Ship Rainier where she conducted hydrographic surveys in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Prior to joining the NOAA Corps she was a GIS analyst with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Through the Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) summer internship program, HSD's Pacific Hydrographic Branch welcomed Stephen Maldonado on June 19 to work on a project developing a tool that ingests metadata from external source data surveys.
Alex Ligon, from NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson, joined Navigation Services Division's (NSD) Navigation Response Branch (NRB) on June 11. He will be based in Stennis, Mississippi, with Navigation Response Team (NRT) 1. Eli Smith and Michael Bloom reported to NRB on June 25. They came to NRB from NOAA Ship Rainier, and will be with NRT5 based in New London, Connecticut.
Recognitions
Dan Jacobs, NRT4 hydrographer in charge, celebrated 20 years of federal service on June 28.
In 1887, Coast Survey recreated a rare copy of Pierre de l’Enfant’s original design of the city of Washington. Vibrant colors enhance the visual appeal of the map, but all details remain faithful to l’Enfant’s original design.
7/10-7/14 - ESRI User Conference in San Diego, California
7/11-7/13 - NOAA chart adequacy workshop 2017
7/22 - NOAA Ship Rainier change of command ceremony
8/7-8/18 - Mississippi River Commission (MRC): Low Water Inspection; RDML Smith was appointed to the MRC by President Obama
9/11-9/13 - Hydrographic Services Review Panel will meet in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
