{"id":170784,"date":"2018-01-12T11:33:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T16:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noaacoastsurvey.wordpress.com\/?p=170784"},"modified":"2026-01-21T15:32:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:32:56","slug":"surveyor-spotlight-noaa-navigation-response-team-member-erin-diurba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/surveyor-spotlight-noaa-navigation-response-team-member-erin-diurba\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveyor Spotlight: NOAA navigation response team member, Erin Diurba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Have you ever wondered what it is like to work on a NOAA\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/customer-service\/navigation-response.html\">navigation response team<\/a> (NRT) or what makes our team members experts in their field?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/\">Office of Coast Survey<\/a> deploys NRTs across the country to conduct emergency hydrographic surveys requested by the U.S. Coast Guard, port officials, and other first responders in the wake of accidents and natural events that create navigation hazards. In their day\u2010to\u2010day, non\u2010emergency role, the NRTs work in the nation\u2019s busiest ports, surveying for dangers to navigation and updating nautical chart products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meet <strong>Erin Diurba<\/strong>, a NOAA navigation response team member homeported in Galveston, Texas. Her self-described \u201csurvey wanderlust\u201d has taken her across the globe to gain hydrographic surveying expertise on diverse teams and in unique environments. She tells her story here in this <a href=\"https:\/\/arcg.is\/91Sv9\"><strong>story map<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/erin-diurba.jpeg\" alt=\"Erin Diurba, hydrographic surveyor on NOAA navigation response team 4, homeported in Galveston, Texas.\" class=\"wp-image-171878\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Erin Diurba, hydrographic surveyor on NOAA navigation response team 4, homeported in Galveston, Texas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered what it is like to work on a NOAA\u00a0navigation response team (NRT) or what makes our team members experts in their field? The Office of Coast Survey deploys NRTs across the country to conduct emergency hydrographic surveys requested by the U.S. Coast Guard, port officials, and other first responders in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/surveyor-spotlight-noaa-navigation-response-team-member-erin-diurba\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Surveyor Spotlight: NOAA navigation response team member, Erin Diurba&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,5,7,10,11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coast-survey-spotlight","category-emergency-response","category-hydrographic-surveys","category-nautical-charts","category-navigation-response-teams","category-rapid-maritime-response"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185405,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170784\/revisions\/185405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nauticalcharts.noaa.gov\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}