Channel Islands Research Program
In April, 1980, the Tatman Foundation and University Southern California (USC) entered into an agreement to sponsor a Channel Islands Research Program (CIRP), with Dr. John M. Engle as project coordinator. The first phase would involve diving surveys off the eight islands, with emphasis on habitat descriptions and field identification of marine plants, invertebrates, and fishes.
Research was initially done aboard the vessel, "Cormorant", a former Army workboat built in 1952 that was purchased by Tatman in 1979 and converted for diving and oceanographic research. It was named after USS Cormorant (AMS 122MSC-122), a Bluebird Class Minesweeper launched in 1953 (reclassified as a Coastal Minesweeper in 1955). David Chomeau served in the United States Navy aboard Cormorant from 1958 to 1961.
In 1984 Tatman sold the original "Cormorant" and purchased a replacement vessel which they also named "Cormorant".
Herring Gull Monitoring Program
Herring Gull Monitoring Program
Herring Gull Monitoring Program
Twice a year for the last 40 years, Ray Faber, a Biology Professor at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota has gone out to Big Sister Island near Ephraim, Wisconsin to study Herring Gull health and track the contamination they pick up from the environment. https://doorcountypulse.com/celebrating-the-seagull/
DC Marine Education Program
Herring Gull Monitoring Program
Herring Gull Monitoring Program
1983 - 1989 A concession operating under the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in Peninsula State Park, Door County, Wisconsin. D. C. Marine was authorized to rent canoes, sailboats and Windsurfers and to offer sailing lessons on Sunfish, daysailors and Windsurfers.
USCG Aux. Flotilla Sponsor
Herring Gull Monitoring Program
USCG Aux. Flotilla Sponsor
The Kirkwood Flotilla was officially formed in 1986 in St. Louis, Missouri. Made up of 23 volunteers, the flotilla conducted hundreds of Marine Courtesy Examinations, dozens of public boating education courses graduating hundreds of students and participated in hundreds of safety and regatta patrols on both the Mississippi River in Missouri and Illinois and Green Bay on Lake Michigan.
Kingdom House
Door County Maritime Lighthouse Project
USCG Aux. Flotilla Sponsor
The Tatman Foundation was pleased to make a donation to Kingdom House in St. Louis in honor of our 50th anniversary.
Harriet Tatman was a great supporter of the Methodist Church and she had great admiration for a Methodist bishop, Ivan Lee Holt who was instrumental in supporting Kingdom House by coordinating the efforts of the many churches and church organizations under his jurisdiction, and raising funds from them for Kingdom House.
Also, one of the Gould's and Chomeau's best friends, Mrs. Merrydell May, endowed the Howard L. May Center, an infant care facility at Kingdom House.
Door County Maritime Lighthouse Project
Door County Maritime Lighthouse Project
Door County Maritime Lighthouse Project
Tatman is a proud supporter of the the Door County Maritime Museum's Maritime Lighthouse Tower Project.
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Revitalization and Sponsorship of AFRAS
Door County Maritime Lighthouse Project
Door County Maritime Lighthouse Project
In 1983, the Tatman Foundation helped to revitalize the Association for Rescue at Sea (AFRAS) both financially and technically. AFRAS was formed in 1976 to provide worldwide support and assistance to volunteer maritime rescue services and to recognize and honor extraordinary maritime rescues. www.afras.org
Swedish Sea Rescue Society
Salvation Army Relief Efforts
Swedish Sea Rescue Society
Focusing on the Mediterranean and Aegean Sea relief operations and migrant crisis, Tatman matched gifts exceeding $30,000 made through the Association for Rescue at Sea in 2018.
Peninsula School of Art
Salvation Army Relief Efforts
Swedish Sea Rescue Society
Peninsula School of Art
Salvation Army Relief Efforts
Salvation Army Relief Efforts
Salvation Army Relief Efforts
Tatman supported 2017 hurricane disaster relief efforts through the Salvation Army.