HRI Geospatial Group to AGU: Meeting of the Americas, Cancun, Mexico   Dr. Jim Gibeaut, Endowed Chair for Geospatial Sciences, and Brach Lupher, GIS Data Steward, attended the AGU Meeting of the Americas and special reception May 14-17 in Cancun, Mexico in support of the release of a booklet, Gulf 360˚: State of the Gulf of Mexico. This project, which was made possible by a grant from the Shell Exploration and Production Company, provides extensive data on the economic and ecological challenges facing the United States, Mexico and Cuba. Dr. Gibeaut is one of the lead authors of this publication and Mr. Lupher was responsible for authoring all of the maps. Also in attendance from the Coastal and Marine Geospatial Lab was Dr. Michael Starek, Associate Research Professor and Scientist, who presented research on using airborne bathymetric light detection and ranging (lidar) and hyperspectral imaging for seagrass mapping.