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CS Students Publish Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal Mobile App

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Two students demonstrating the app they created
Ava Taylor and Anjali Narang

The team of Ava Taylor (CS ’23) and Anjali Narang (CS ’25) has created a mobile app version of the Mid-Atlantic Ocean Data Portal which gives access to coastal and ocean maps. The app is available on the Google Play and Apple App stores. The data portal (portal.midatlanticocean.org) is a publicly accessible GIS site containing over 6,000 interactive maps showing vessel traffic patterns, marine life distributions, commercial fishing grounds, recreation hot spots, offshore infrastructure locations, and more. It is maintained by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean (MARCO), which also provided grant funding for the completion of the mobile app. Specialist Professor Raman Lakshmanan, Ph.D., directed the project, with Taylor leading the iOS version’s development and Narang the Android product. The mobile app contains unique mobile functionality such as GPS location indicator and the ability to choose “favorite” or “active” layers.