ABOUT US
...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).

...Copyright 2007-2009. All rights reserved.



...Want to learn about South Mississippi's role in other science and
technology sectors? Visit
Mississippi Gulf Coast Aerospace Corridor;
Mississippi Gulf Coast Advanced Materials; Mississippi Gulf Coast
Shipbuilding Corridor.; and Mississippi Gulf Coast Geospatial Corridor.
For a copy of the 8-page brochure summarizing the sci-tech sectors of
South Mississippi, click
here.
Copyright 2007-2009, Mississippi Gulf Coast Alliance for Economic Development