Hydro International's Authors

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Featured Authors

Veerle Huvenne

Veerle Huvenne

Veerle Huvenne is a Marine Geoscientist from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK. She has more than 15 years of experience in benthic habitat mapping. She has pa...

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Edward Moller

Edward Moller

Edward Moller is Global Business Manager for Survey and Construction at Sonardyne International. Before joining Sonardyne, he worked offshore as a surveyor with Subsea 7, Haliburto...

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Andrew Armstrong

Andrew Armstrong

Andrew Armstrong is the NOAA co-director of the NOAA/University of New Hampshire Joint Hydrographic Center, a national and international centre of excellence in hydrographic survey...

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Contributors to Hydro International

Adrian McDonald

Adrian McDonald

Adrian McDonald is vice president sales of CEE Hydrosystems. Before this assignment, he was the sales and marketing manager at Teledyne Oceanscience, providing sensor deployme...

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Agnieszka Kubowicz

Agnieszka Kubowicz

Agnieszka Kubowicz holds a PhD degree in Earth Sciences. She has been an adjunct at the Institute of Oceanography, University of Gdańsk, since 2012. Her main research interests inc...

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Agung Syetiawan

Agung Syetiawan

Agung Syetiawan is a researcher in the Geospatial Information Agency of Indonesia. He received his Master’s degree in Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering from Bandung Institute...

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Aharon Sade

Aharon Sade

Aharon Ronnie Sade is  the owner and MD of Yam-yafo Ltd. - a firm that provides marine and subsea data management services to the offshore industry, based in Israel.

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Alan Jamieson

Alan Jamieson

Senior lecturer in deep-sea biology at Newcastle University’s School of Natural and Environmental Sciences and chief scientist on the Five Deeps Expedition.

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Alexandros Chronis

Alexandros Chronis

Alexandros Chronis is a Master student of the Coastal Zone Management Programme at the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece. He h...

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Alex Bastos

Alex Bastos

Alex Bastos is Professor in Marine Geology at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil since 2004. Received his PhD from the University of Southampton/National Oceanog...

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Alexis Maxwell

Alexis Maxwell

Alexis Maxwell is a communications and international policy specialist at NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey. In this capacity, she supports policy and planning processes rel...

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Alex Sinclair

Alex Sinclair

Alex Sinclair is managing director at Marlan Maritime Technologies, with over 20 year experience in a range of engineering disciplines. He holds a BEng in Electrical and Electronic...

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Al Rumson

Al Rumson

Al Rumson is Innovation Lead for Sulmara Subsea, a fairly young subsea service provider who aim to be disruptive and innovative. His work involves sourcing and implementing new tec...

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Alvaro Sanchez

Alvaro Sanchez

Alvaro Sanchez is the Deputy Director responsible for charting quality assurance, standards, and specifications at the Australian Hydrographic Office. Alvaro has more than 20 years...

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Amy Gresty

Amy Gresty

Amy Gresty started her career as an offshore geophysicist and now works in the commercial department at Bibby HydroMap. As well as being responsible for tender evaluation and propo...

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Anders Ekelund

Anders Ekelund

Anders Ekelund is vice president airborne bathymetric Lidar at Hexagon’s Geosystems division. In this role, he is responsible for developing competitive solutions and service...

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Andrea Spitzner

Andrea Spitzner

Ms. Spitzner completed her studies in Physical Geography in 2009, specialising in climatological geography and atmospheric research. She moved from the Federal Environment Agency G...

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André Sabino

André Sabino

André Sabino is a PhD student at Departamento de Informática, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, where he develops research in Computer Science. His main foc...

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Andrew Orthmann

Andrew Orthmann

Andrew Orthmann manages NOAA charting work for TerraSond. He has 16 years of experience in the field of hydrographic survey, consisting of 9 years for Fugro-Pelagos and 7 years for...

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Andrew Ternes

Andrew Ternes

Andrew Ternes is a Hydrographic surveyor at the Port of Melbourne Corporation where he has undertaken single beam, Multibeam, side-scan and seismic data collection in support of ch...

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Andrijana Horvat

Andrijana Horvat

Andrijana Horvat is R&D lead geophysicist and GIS specialist at Hidrocibalae, with a Master’s in Geography from the University of Zagreb. Her professional interests inclu...

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Andy Hamflett

Andy Hamflett

Andy Hamflett is an experienced researcher and thought leader with a keen interest in socially and ethically responsible projects with potential to scale. He has explored innovativ...

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Andy Hoggarth

Andy Hoggarth

Andy Hoggarth is vice president of sales and marketing at Teledyne Geospatial.

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Andy Plater

Andy Plater

Andy Plater is professor of Physical Geography and head of Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Liverpool. His research focuses on coastal geomorphology and en...

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Andy Waddington

Andy Waddington

Andy Waddington, vice president of bathymetric services at Hexagon, is a hydrographer and an experienced mariner with a long career in surveying at sea. He started his career in hy...

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Angelo Odetti

Angelo Odetti

Angelo Odetti, PhD, is a marine engineer and naval architect. With experience in air cushion technology, He joined CNR-INM in 2013. His research is based on the development of new...

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Anke Cotteleer

Anke Cotteleer

Ir. A. (Anke) Cotteleer studied marine technology at Delft University of Technology. She started her career in the offshore industry as a marine engineer at Heerema and later at Ak...

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Anna Manning

Anna Manning

Anna Manning is an Oceanographer for the Naval Oceanographic Office’s Hydrographic Quality Assurance Branch in the Hydrographic Department. She has a BSc in Physics from Clem...

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Anne-Cathrin Wölfl

Anne-Cathrin Wölfl

Anne-Cathrin Wölfl is a postdoctoral research associate in the research division Dynamics of the Ocean Floor at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany....

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Ann Kitajima

Ann Kitajima

Ann Kitajima has been with the Morro Bay NEP for 20 years, serving first as the monitoring programme manager and more recently as assistant director. She manages programme grants a...

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Anthony Pyne

Anthony Pyne

Anthony Pyne is general manager at EGS Survey PTY Ltd (Australia). He studied BSc (Hons) Oceanography with Geology. The EGS Group of companies has participated...

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Antonio Di Lieto

Antonio Di Lieto

Antonio Di Lieto is a  senior instructor at CSMART, Carnival Corporation’s Cruiseship Simulation Centre. He has sea-going experience as hydrographic surveyor (IHO cat A)...

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Antonio Williams

Antonio Williams

Antonio Williams took on the role of chief hydrographer for Jamaica in 2011. He is an IHO Cat. A certified hydrographer who is passionate about hydrography for safety of navigation...

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Armanda Rodrigues

Armanda Rodrigues

Armanda Rodrigues is an assistant professor at Departamento de Informática, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, where she teaches courses and develops research in Compute...

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Arno Meurink

Arno Meurink

Arno Meurink is a cartographer at the Netherlands Hydrographic Office. After working for almost ten years at the photogrammetry department of Fugro he made the switch to the H...

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Ashley Chappell

Ashley Chappell

Ashley Chappell earned a B.A. in Geography from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991, and a Master's degree in Geography and Cartographic Sciences from George Ma...

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Aurélie Maspataud

Aurélie Maspataud

Aurélie Maspataud earned a PhD in Coastal Morphodynamics in 2011. She worked in French academic positions and geomatics for 3 years. She joined SHOM in 2014 and is in charge...

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Avi Dror

Avi Dror

Commander Avi Dror is hydrographer at the Israeli Navy, where he serves as head of the Hydrographic Branch. Prior to this position, Dror was head of the Mapping and Charting sectio...

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Axel Banasch

Axel Banasch

Axel Banasch graduated in mechanical engineering from Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany, and has more than 20 years of experience in CAx. He joined the R&D...

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Aymeric Buatois

Aymeric Buatois

Aymeric Buatois is a SCADA development engineer at Torcado, where he is in charge of the development of the software tools to communicate with the turbines and analyse the data to...

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Barbara Bond

Barbara Bond

Barbara Bond spent her career in public service as cartographic researcher in MoD, initially in the forerunner of the Defence Geographic Centre and latterly as the senior civi...

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Barry Gallagher

Barry Gallagher

Barry Gallagher is an IT Specialist with the NOAA Office of Coast Survey for more than twenty-five years. He works as a software developer at the Hydrographic Systems and Technolog...

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Bart De Smet

Bart De Smet

Bart De Smet is a marine biologist and the Senior Science Officer for Science Communications at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). The institute's primary mission is to enhance...

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Bart-Jan Ruesink

Bart-Jan Ruesink

Bart-Jan Ruesink has a background in Civil Engineering and worked as a construction surveyor on a number of construction projects in the Netherlands. He has been responsible for th...

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Bart Spelt

Bart Spelt

Bart Spelt is project manager of the WTI measurement programme. He received his degree in electronic engineering from Alkmaar University in 1997. Since then he has worked at R...

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Bas Binnerts

Bas Binnerts

Bas Binnerts received his MSc in Mechanical Engineering, Structural Dynamics and Acoustics from the University of Twente in 2012. In the same year, he joined the acoustics and sona...

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Bas de Kruif

Bas de Kruif

Bas de Kruif received his MSc and PhD in control engineering at Twente University, the Netherlands. He has been working between industry and academia ever since, and enjoys bringin...

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Bas Van de Sande

Bas Van de Sande

Bas van de Sande is a GIS expert with a background in spatial planning and development, focused on the Marine and Maritime Sector. He works for CDR International BV as an engineeri...

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Beatriz López García

Beatriz López García

Beatriz López García successfully completed her Bachelor’s degree in Technical Survey Engineering and a Master’s degree in Geodetic and Cartographic Engin...

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Becky Childs

Becky Childs

Becky Childs is technical services manager at Ocean Scientific International Ltd. (OSIL), a United Kingdom-based specialist in the provision of tailored integrated systems for envi...

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Ben Frederiks

Ben Frederiks

Ben Frederiks studied marine biology and hydrography and started working at Rijkswaterstaat in 2015. His current position is as a hydrographic surveyor at Rijkswaterstaat’s S...

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Benjamin Busse

Benjamin Busse

Benjamin Busse is a UAV pilot and expert in cartography and geomatics at the Karlsruhe-based Ingenieur Team GEO engineering office.

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