...This site and the companion book, "Mississippi Gulf Coast Marine Science" were commissioned by the Mississippi Gulf Coast Alliance for Economic Development, a group of economic development leaders from South Mississippi.
...The information was compiled and written by Tortorano Commissioned Publications, an independent research firm in Gulf Breeze, FL.
...The maps were produced using a combination of Google Earth Pro and satellite images available to the public through the Applied Research and Technology Project Office at Stennis Space Center, MS (https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/mrsid.pl).
...The concept maps were produced using CMap tools developed by the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola, FL (http://www.ihmc.us/).
...Home page images: 1) fisheries biologist videos fish (Gulf Coast Research Lab, Ocean Springs, MS); 2) Coastal Oceanographic Line-of-Sight (COLOS) buoy (National Data Buoy Center, Stennis Space Center, MS); 3) juvenile sailfish (Gulf Coast Research Lab, Ocean Springs, MS); USM's EagleRay autonomous underwater vehicle (University of North Carolina).