Florida Coastal Mapping Program 

October 2022 Updates

We Are Hiring!

Program Planner - Coastal Mapping 

FCMaP brings together the Florida mapping community of public and private stakeholders. This position is a growth opportunity to facilitate community building and outreach, and to promote stakeholder engagement, information sharing, collaboration, and mapping partnerships.

Details and application on the USF Careers website (search job opening 32292).

Please share this opportunity widely!

Benthic Data Survey Extended

Please distribute widely to colleagues and within your organization.

Help facilitate the development of a standardized mapping framework for the State of Florida. 

This brief survey explores how different stakeholders interact with benthic data in Florida. We will use this information to identify current practices and community needs. This feedback will fuel recommendations for a standardized framework for benthic data integration and distribution in Florida, aligning with existing national and international efforts. We intend to present the results of this survey at the upcoming Florida Coastal Mapping Program (FCMaP) Summit later this year. For more information including a video overview of the project visit: https://www.floridamarinedata.com/

Please follow the link below to complete the survey by October 28^th, 2022. The survey should take no more than 15 minutes to complete.

https://ufl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_etzrRfVaSkKF5XM

If you have questions or comments about our feedback process, please contact us at a.braswell@ufl.edu.

Thank you in advance for providing your feedback!

Anna Braswell, Bradley Ennis, Joy Hazell, and Vincent Lecours

Leads, West Florida Shelf Standardized Mapping Framework Center of Excellence

School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences

University of Florida

Upcoming Events

COMIT webinar Wednesday, October 26^th at 12pm Eastern 

Dr. Matthew Johnson-Roberson, director of the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute and a Professor in the School of Computer Science will present:

"Lessons from the Field: Deep Learning and Machine Perception for AUVs"

Click here to join the presentation via Teams (no registration required). Read Dr. Johnson-Roberson’s full abstract and biography here. Please share this widely with your networks!

FCMaP invites you to our annual Summit to discuss recent mapping activities and strategies to achieve a mapped Florida! 

The purpose of the summit is to bring together stakeholders, in person and virtually, to discuss recent mapping activities and future plans and strategies to achieve a mapped Florida.

Please share with interested colleagues and register today for this free hybrid event to aid in planning. 

Contribute

We need you to contribute new or missing mapping projects focused only on topobathymetric lidar or multibeam bathymetry that meet the following criteria:

• At least 1 data point every 10m²
• Collected anywhere on the Florida seafloor from the shoreline to 200m water depth
• Collected after the year 2000



The linked mapping application provides polygons of coverage and metadata.

Project footprints can be added directly into the web-based mapping application below (how-to directions will pop up when you click the link). If you are unable to add a project through the mapping application, please contact a member of the FCMaP team (Rene.Baumstark@MyFWC.com; chapke@usf.edu; ryan.druyor@myfwc.com).

If you are interested in providing a lightening presentation on your recent or future mapping project please reach out. 

Opportunity

This six-day, 36-lecture course is designed to provide a theoretical and practical background in marine swath survey technology and techniques for hydrographic surveys, continental shelf boundary delimitation, offshore engineering, harbor dredging, fisheries habitat, route survey and scientific research, and provides overviews of:

• the technology and problems associated with shallow water multibeam surveys,
• processing and visualization techniques designed to address the complexities of swath mapping,
• constraints on using swath bathymetry to produce highest quality data.

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Do you have Florida mapping events, jobs, or information to share?

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FCMaP website: https://www.fio.usf.edu/research-programs/florida-coastal-mapping-program/