An Earth Systems Approach to Northern Gulf
Science and Management...

The Northern Gulf Institute hosted over 200 regional scientists, researchers, and students at their 5th annual conference in Mobile. This year's conference highlighted the work of multi-university and multi-institutional teams under the theme of an Earth systems approach to northern Gulf science and management.

The conference agenda included fifty-eight technical presentations and two interactive sessions with sixty-five poster displays featuring current Gulf of Mexico research. Participants in the annual photography and student poster contests demonstrated exceptional artistic, technical, and scientific efforts.

The NOAA-NGI Summer Diversity Interns attended the conference and received internship orientation and metadata training. The NOAA Career Roundtable hosted a panel of NOAA scientists and administrators who shared their professional experiences and discussed career opportunities with students.

Plenary presentations covered topics of importance to the NGI community:

• NGI Integrated Education & Outreach Program
  
• NOAA-NGI Diversity Internship Program and NGI Gulf Literacy Workshops
• Update from up the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative
  
• NOAA and Cooperative Institutes
• Improving Transitions to Application

For more information and to view presentations, posters, and photos, click on links in above text or in conference categories on the left.