2024 BEAMS Symposium
April 12-14, Charleston, SC
The third BEAMS Symposium featured 17 poster presentations, as well as 5 oral presentations by BEAMS students, shown below. In addition, representatives from 13 different companies or agencies gave lightening talks, oral presentations, and keynote addresses.
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Student Oral Presentations
Jacob Stock – “Navigating Opportunities: A Comprehensive Look at the BEAMS Program”
Maddie Langer, Lexie DelViscio, Cooper Hamilton, & Layne Leggett – “Explore the Seafloor: Semester at a Glance (Spring 2024)”
Ava Stewart – “NOAA Hydro Training Cruises and the Importance of Student At-Sea Opportunities”
Miles Thompson – “Revamping the Charts of the York River with eTrac”
Treyson Gillespie – “Generation of Multibeam Acoustic Data Processing Training Modules for Undergraduate Students Using QPS Qimera”
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Keynote Speakers
Josh Mode (Caretta Hydrographic Solutions, BEAMS Alumnus) – “Becoming a BEAMS Ambassador“
Dan Christie (Rock Bottom Hydro) – “Education is a Possession of Which (Wo)Man Cannot Be Robbed”
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Industry/Government Professionals’ Lightning Talks
BEAMS Investment Partners (B.I.P.s)
RJ Kozich, Caroline Bradley, and Greg Crenshaw – eTrac, a Woolpert Company (Silver Level B.I.P.)
Rebekah Gossett and Hannah Berkimer – NV5 Geospatial, GeoDynamics (Silver Level B.I.P.)
Lauren Maurizio – Blue Dot Geohydrographic (Bronze Level B.I.P.)
Others
Christina Maschmeyer – 3D at Depth
Straud Armstrong – Hypack, a Xylem Brand
Jim Posda – GEL Engineering
Julia Wallace – The Hydrographic Society of America (THSOA)
Alexandra Dawson – NOAA Office of Coast Survey (NOAA OCS)
Jennifer Kist & Bailey Horn – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District (USACE)
Chelsea Stalk – U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Howie Meyers – University of New Hampshire – Center for Coast and Ocean Mapping (UNH-CCOM)
Matthew Hommeyer & Margaret Hanley – University of South Florida Center for OceanMapping and Innovative Technologies (COMIT-USF)
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Industry/Government Oral Presentations
RJ Kozich (eTrac, a Woolpert Company) – “Mapping Southwest Chesapeake Bay Rivers”
Alexandra Dawson (NOAA OCS, BEAMS Alumna) – “Newly Discovered Paleochannels Near Wilmington, NC”
Rebekah Gossett (NV5 – Geodynamics, BEAMS Alumna) – “Rising Tides, Rising Solutions: Leveraging Different Bathymetric Mapping Sensors for Coastal Mapping”
Jennifer Kist (USACE, BEAMS Alumna) – “Assessing USACE Mitigation Reef Hard Bottom Extents Using Multispectral Backscatter”
