President Thomas Jefferson established the U.S. Coast Survey in 1807, the first scientific agency of the federal government. Its mission was to map American coastlines to protect shipping, producing detailed maps like one of the California coastline created after California was ceded by Mexico to the United States, showing landmarks such as Morro Rock.
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5:25that convenient, but an important enabling layer for the future. 1807, establishment of the US Coast Survey. Yes. So, this was by Thomas Jefferson. He was president at the time. This is the first scientific agency of the US federal government. It was tasked with mapping American coastlines to protect shipping. And so there you see some of the very um maps that were created. On the very right hand side is a really cool map of the California coastline that was created when California was seated by Mexico to America. They went up the coastline and there you can see like Mororrow Rock and all the things that we love when we were going up to
6:06San Francisco on the coast, right? Um you it's the first like coastline map of