Hydro International's Authors

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Featured Authors

Walter Geibert

Walter Geibert

Dr Walter Geibert is a geoscientist who uses natural radioactivity to study the timescales of chemical, physical and biological processes in the ocean. He studied in Trier and Brem...

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Matt Quartley

Matt Quartley

Matt Quartley has headed the environmental monitoring instrument company, Valeport, since 2005. With a background in defining and specifying new products for development, he leads...

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Contributors to Hydro International

Sr Mustafa Saiful Nizam

Sr Mustafa Saiful Nizam

Sr (Surveyor) Saiful Nizam Mustafa, is a member of the Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (RISM), a professional member of The Institution of Geospatial and Remote Sensing Mal...

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Stefan Gladisch

Stefan Gladisch

Dr. Stefan Gladisch earned his PhD in Computer Graphics from University of Rostock in 2016. Since then he has been working as a scientist at the department of Maritime Graphics at...

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Stéphane Bertin

Stéphane Bertin

Stéphane Bertin is a research fellow in coastal geosciences at the University of Brest, with a background in environmental fluid mechanics and quantitative geomorphology. Hi...

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Stephen Wilkins

Stephen Wilkins

Stephen Wilkins - A qualified merchant mariner and professional sailor, Stephen Wilkins has been conducting expeditions to the polar regions of the south and Antarctica since...

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Steve Gibb

Steve Gibb

Steve Gibb is group public relations manager at The Balmoral Subsea Test Centre, part of Balmoral Group Holdings Ltd, a privately-owned company based in Aberdeen, Scotland. Employi...

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Steve Holt

Steve Holt

Systems and Integration Engineer with energetic, driven, and positive approach to systems planning, development, testing and project management of complex systems and system of sys...

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Steve Raber

Steve Raber

Steve Raber is senior programme manager for NV5 Geospatial, where he is responsible for business development within the federal-civil government sector and the management of severa...

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Stuart Chance

Stuart Chance

Stuart Chance is a project engineer at ASV, LLC in Broussard, LA.  He has 2 years of experience in unmanned marine systems at ASV and a background in land and hydrographic sur...

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Sumona Datta

Sumona Datta

Sumona Datta started her career as a journalist in Mumbai, India. She has since been associated with the Lidar industry for over two decades and is currently the media relations an...

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Susan Sebastian

Susan Sebastian

Ms. Sebastian has worked extensively in the field of Hydrography for NAVOCEANO in the past 30 plus years conducting shipboard hydrographic surveys.  She is an IHO Category &rs...

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Talicia Pillay

Talicia Pillay

Talicia Pillay is a Scientist within the Marine Geoscience Unit at the Council for Geoscience with a PhD focusing on benthic habitat mapping using machine learning techniques. She...

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Tanja Dufek

Tanja Dufek

Tanja Dufek completed her Master’s in  Geomatics at HafenCity University in 2012 and has been employed as a Student Assistant at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar a...

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Terje Langvik

Terje Langvik

Terje Langvik has a degree from the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy. He served as naval officer from 1965 to 1970 and was senior engineer at the Norwegian Lighthouse Authority from 1...

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Theresa Levitt

Theresa Levitt

Theresa Levitt joined the faculty at the University of Mississippi, USA, in 2002. She received her B.S. in physics from MIT in 1993, and a MA in History from Iowa State University...

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Thierry Schmitt

Thierry Schmitt

Thierry Schmitt earned his PhD in Marine Geology from Cardiff University in 2005. Since then he has been working at CIDCO (Canada), Ifremer and SHOM (France) with the aim of d...

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Thomas Bønnelykke-Behrndtz

Thomas Bønnelykke-Behrndtz

Thomas Bønnelykke-Behrndtz is Global Product Sales Manager at EIVA a/s. He has been with the company for close to three years and is currently based in Boston, United States...

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Thomas DiCicco

Thomas DiCicco

Thomas DiCicco is an engineering leader in the field of electronics and communications technology with specialisation in  the telecommunications areas, including satellite and...

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Thorkild Aarup

Thorkild Aarup

Thorkild Aarup is a programme specialist with the IOC of UNESCO where his responsibilities include being technical secretary for the Global Sea Level Observing System and the coast...

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Tim Janzen

Tim Janzen

Tim Janzen is a Hydrographer-In-Charge with the Canadian Hydrographic Service. He has 28 years of experience in hydrography, much of this time spent in the Canadian Arctic. Tim hol...

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Tim Kearns

Tim Kearns

Tim Kearns is chief information officer at the Great Lakes Observing System and is responsible for strategy, policy and the development of cyberinfrastructure. He founded Map the G...

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Timo Gaida

Timo Gaida

Timo Constantin Gaida received a PhD from the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands in 2020, for his research on innovative methods for sonar-based seabed ma...

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Tim Scott

Tim Scott

Tim Scott is an Associate Professor in Ocean Exploration at the University of Plymouth. Working within the Coastal Processes Research Group, he has more than 20 years of experience...

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Tim Webster

Tim Webster

Tim Webster has been a research scientist with NSCC’s Applied Research Group since 2000. He has an MSc from Acadia University and a PhD from Dalhousie University.  

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Tor Arne Paulsen

Tor Arne Paulsen

Tor Arne Paulsen, Survey Technical manager of DeepOcean AS, based in Haugesund, Norway has over 20 years of experience in the offshore subsea and hydrographic industry. After gradu...

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Torsten Frey

Torsten Frey

Torsten Frey is a researcher at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel. He is the lead author of the Quality Guideline for Offshore Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) and c...

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Ulrike Schulte-Rahde

Ulrike Schulte-Rahde

Ulrike Schulte-Rahde graduated from Christians-Albrecht University in Kiel, Germany, and has been director of marketing & public relations at L-3 ELAC Nautik since 2008. B...

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Valery Zemtsov

Valery Zemtsov

Valery A. Zemtsov is the head of the Hydrology Department at Tomsk State University, Russia. He is an engineer/hydrologist, Doctor of Science (Hydrology), and Professor. His r...

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Val Schmidt

Val Schmidt

Val Schmidt leads the marine robotics programme at the US Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping, where he and a team of engineers and graduate students solve problems to “ma...

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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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Vegard Haugen

Vegard Haugen

Vegard Haugen is area sales manager at Kongsberg Seatex. He has over 15 years of experience at the Norwegian Coast Guard, where he worked his way up to Commander. His experience in...

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Vemund Schøyen

Vemund Schøyen

Vemund Sigmundson Schøyen wrote his Master’s thesis for the University of Oslo (UiO) in collaboration with the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) in 2019/2...

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Victoria Putans

Victoria Putans

Victoria Putans graduated in Technic and technology of geological survey, Seismic methods at the Russian State Geological Prospecting University. S.Ordjonilidze (RSGPU), Geoph...

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Vincent de Geus

Vincent de Geus

Vincent de Geus received an MSc degree in Systems and Control from Delft University of Technology in 2010. Since then, he has worked in the field of high-fidelity flight simulators...

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Volodymyr Shuliak

Volodymyr Shuliak

Volodymyr Shuliak is Partner at BaltRobotics. He is a business entrepreneur and investor of innovative start-ups. Several businesses have been started by Volodymyr, including...

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Walter Smith

Walter Smith

Walter H F Smith is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a Geophysicist at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Walter has a PhD in Marine Geoph...

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Willem Snoek

Willem Snoek

Willem Snoek graduated with a BSc in Civil Engineer from the Hogeschool Rotterdam/Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences in 2002 and joined the Port of Rotterdam in 2002 as a hyd...

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William Greene

William Greene

William Greene is a corporate advisor with global experience in renewable energy and offshore industry finance. William heads up Ocius’ European business development activiti...

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William O'Halloran

William O'Halloran

William O'Halloran is founder of Square Robot. He was the director of User Experience at Bluefin Robotics, where he oversees all trials, testing and delivery of Bluefin vehicles as...

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Wim Kanneworff

Wim Kanneworff

Wim Kanneworff, studied Hydrography in Amsterdam in 1987, and has been working as a Hydrographic Surveyor for Van Oord since. He has been involved in many projects as chief surveyo...

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Wim van Wegen

Wim van Wegen

Wim van Wegen is head of content at GIM International and Hydro International. In his role, he is responsible for the print and online publications of one of the world’s...

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Witold Kazimierski

Witold Kazimierski

Witold Kazimierski, navigator and GIS specialist, received a PhD in geodesy and cartography in 2008. He is currently an associate professor at the Maritime University of Szczecin,...

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Yahya Memarzadeh

Yahya Memarzadeh

Yahya Memarzadeh received his PhD in Satellite Geodesy and Ionosphere modelling from Delft University of Technology in 2009. He is currently a geodesist in the R&D team of GNSS...

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Yoann Boulaire

Yoann Boulaire

Yoann Boulaire,  Hydrographer - Hydrographer IHO Category B and diver, Yoann Boulaire embarked on SHOM hydrographic and oceanographic vessels since 2008. Passionate about newe...

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Yohanis Kalambo

Yohanis Kalambo

Cdr. Yohanis L. Kalambo is the Commandant of Officer School of Hydro-Oceanographic Education Center and Served as a Hydrographic surveyor (Cat. A) at Indonesian Navy Hydro-Oseanogr...

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Yves-Marie Tanguy

Yves-Marie Tanguy

After several years on survey vessels, Yves-Marie Tanguy  started to work on sea-levels referenced to the ellipsoid in 2011: he joined the Litto3D team that same yea...

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Yves Pastol

Yves Pastol

Yves Pastol is the French expert for Airborne Lidar Bathymetry (ALB). He is one of the 2 funders of the Litto3D team in Shom, and he has worked since 2005 with many survey companie...

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