Lecture: Offshore Wind
We’ll discuss the up-and-coming industry of offshore wind energy generation with experts from the environmental and industry sides.
We’ll discuss the up-and-coming industry of offshore wind energy generation with experts from the environmental and industry sides.
Houston was founded along Buffalo Bayou, where cotton traders believed they could establish a port to move cotton in and out of Texas faster and more efficiently.
Lecture topic TBD. Additional details will be available soon.
Types of Ships Click on a ship to learn more about it! We’ve included a brief description, a photo of each type of vessel, and links to informative YouTube videos from a wide variety of content creators.
Nathaniel Bowditch and an Introduction to Maritime Navigation This module has been created for presentation to middle school students. It features Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham, an award-winning children’s book. It also covers an introduction to maritime navigation, as well as hitting on a variety of TEKs skills including: The module is offered…
Houston plays a small, but significant role in a massive global shipping and transit system that moves many tons of cargo all over the world. This industrial feet of organization requires entities to share a huge amount of data with one another to ensure on time delivery, avoid collisions, share ever-changing information about the oceans…
The Houston Ship Channel accounts for over 16% of the total GDP for the state of Texas. That is a HUGE economic impact that many Houstonians are completely unaware of. The ship channel stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the edge of the 610 loop, bringing millions of tons of cargo into the country…
Docent Milt Rose gives a 1 hour tour of the Houston Maritime Gallery, focusing on the role Government has played in maritime history.
What exactly IS a ship channel pilot? Retired Houston Ship Channel Pilot, Lou Vest explains who the ship channel pilots are, what they do, and why we need them!