Blue Economy Field Trips Offer Career Insights
Introduce your students to coastal career options on a GenSea field trip. We take your students to work at sites across Mississippi’s three coastal counties. More information on field trip partners and sites can be found here.
Our field trip program is currently on hiatus, but we hope to be back soon!
Field Trips Across the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Hancock County
Did you know that Stennis Space Center* is 88% blue economy jobs? Our field trips get students through security and into the following facilities: USM’s Division of Marine Science, Navy Oceanographic Command (NAVOCEANO), NOAA National Data Buoy Center, NVision Solutions, Aerojet Rocketdyne, and more.
*Stennis requires all attendees be U.S. citizens or possess green cards and show a photo ID for entry.
Harrison County
Did you know that in addition to being a logistics hub, Mississippi’s coast is emerging as a center of development for underwater robotics? Sites in Gulfport and Long Beach: USM’s Gulf Park campus, Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi AVCRAD* (Aviation Classification Repair Activity Depot), Chemours, Mississippi Land Trust for the Coastal Plain, the Port of Gulfport, and Ocean Aero. *Site requires U.S. citizenship/green cards with photo ID.
Jackson County
Pascagoula may be famous for shipbuilding, but the whole county offers opportunities to learn about a variety of blue economy careers. Visit the following sites: Bollinger Shipbuilders*, NOAA Fisheries Research Center, Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR), Port of Pascagoula, Moss Point CTE Aquaculture, and Ingalls Shipbuilding*. *Some sites require all attendees be U.S. citizens/possess green cards with photo ID.
