Active community partner

As part of its ongoing outreach effort, SMAST maintains a public presence at trade shows, professional meetings, and other events with a marine theme—Ocean Sciences Meeting, National Marine Educators Conference, Working Waterfront Festival, etc.—and students invariably play a major role.

At June's Commercial Marine Expo, SMAST mounted a virtual portable museum of research, where attendees wandered among life-size exhibits of innovative fishing gear, ocean gliders, scallop survey equipment, and other displays, chatting with scientists, learning about current research, and offering input from their own perspectives as ocean stakeholders.