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Navigation Manager
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The Office of Coast Survey's representatives in the field help decide its future activities. They serve as ambassadors to the maritime community. Maintaining a distributed presence for its customers, Coast Surveys Navigation Managers help identify the challenges facing marine transportation in general, directly supporting the NOAA strategic goal to "promote safe navigation." These agents assist the Coast Survey in overseeing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's nautical chart data collection and information programs, helping to meet constituent needs. Coast Survey programs provide coastal navigation services and new electronic technologies to help mariners and pilots significantly reduce the risk of accidents and spills. In general, these representatives focus primarily on resolving charting and navigation questions, educating constituents on emerging charting technologies and their uses, and soliciting feedback on NOAA's navigation products and services from the commercial maritime industry.
Activities include:
- meeting with local port authorities and harbormasters
- meeting with local marine pilots
- Identifying locations requiring priority hydrographic surveying
- providing liaison on other NOS issues such as predicted tides/currents and PORTS
- addressing geographic information system needs
- providing outreach activities with the maritime community
- maintaining dialogue with oil companies, fisherman, commercial shippers and other commercial mariners
- improving and customizing nautical charts to satisfy specific regional needs
- providing expert opinion towards resolution of local navigation safety issues that affect several agencies
- partnering with local maritime professionals for updating the Coast Pilot
- working with regional constituents to define new navigation products such as the electronic nautical chart, raster nautical chart and "print on demand" charts.
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