Captain Brian Connon, US Navy (Ret) is vice president Ocean Mapping at Saildrone. He is a chartered marine scientist (hydrography) and fellow of the Institute for Marine Engineerin...

Bruce Calderbank, FRICS, CLS, CH, P. Eng, a Certified Hydrographer Level 1, Chartered Hydrographic Surveyor, Chair, and part of the Canadian Hydrographer Certification Panel Associ...

Dr. Bruce Parker is the former chief scientist of the National Ocean Service (NOS), NOAA, and former director of the Coast Survey Development Laboratory in NOS. He is presentl...

Albert E. Theberge (Skip)'s career as a coast surveyor followed a somewhat ­traditional path. He graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1969 as a Geological E...

Barry Lusk's company has set up his company Lusk Hydrographic Expertise in 1995 to provide hydrographic services to industry. He concentrates primarily on offering e...

Carlotta Toso received her Master’s Degree in Environmental Sciences at Università Cà Foscari of Venice in 2017, cooperating for her graduate thesis with the In...

Carly Nichols works at Bluewater Energy Services, assisting the project engineer and asset manager and often acts as interface engineer between the 10+ Partners within the BlueTEC...

Carol Fisher is programme manager/lead hydrographer at TCarta Caribe, Kingston, Jamaica. Born and raised in Jamaica, Carol Fisher holds a degree in land surveying/GIS and is a cert...

Carol Lockhart is a Project Manager and a Hydrographer. She has been surveying for over 20 years and was the owner of Geomatics Data Solutions (GDS), a marine and terrestrial surve...

Carolyn Geraghty is the restoration programme manager for the Morro Bay NEP, where she develops and oversees watershed and estuarine restoration projects and conservation efforts....

Works at Caladan Oceanic LLC and is the Five Deeps Expedition hydrographic surveyor.

Cees van Dijk is the content manager of Hydro International. "After having worked in different media positions for more than twenty years, this is an interesting new challenge for...

Charles de Jongh has an MSc in Geography with a master in Cartography and Geographical Information Science. He is a senior member of the CARIS BV Technical Sales staff with ex...

Chen Zhang is an IT Specialist with the NOAA Office of Coast Survey. He works as a software developer at the Hydrographic Systems and Technology Branch in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Chris Haworth joined SeeByte in 2010 to help drive the transition of autonomy capability from research through to operational use.  Chris is currently Commercial Director for...

Christopher Parrish is the lead physical scientist in the Remote Sensing Division of NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) and affiliate Professor of Ocean Engineering and Ea...

Christophe Vrignaud is an Engineer for the French Ministry of Defence. His main interest is related to underwater acoustics. Early in his career he focused on fishery acoustics. He...

Clemens Kirchner has been employed as a project manager at Boskalis Hirdes since 2014. In recent years, he has been involved in the planning and execution of numerous successful of...

Coen Werner is senior geologist and R&D manager at STEMA systems. He is also responsible for the development of Silas and Tune systems. Prior to this he was a seismic specialis...

Colin Devey is Professor of Oceanic Volcanism at GEOMAR in Kiel, Germany. His research centres on the fluxes of heat and materials from the Earth´s interior to the seafloor,...

Conceição Fortes is a principal research officer and head of the Ports and Maritime Structures Unit of the National Laboratory for Civil Engineering, with 27 years&rs...

With a background in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Craig Wallace has spent the last 9 years specialising in technology related to the underwater mapping communit...

LCDR Daniel Peixoto de Carvalho graduated from the Brazilian Naval Academy in 2000, became a Hydrographer in 2004 and earned an MSc in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography from th...

Daniel Wehner is a geophysical researcher currently working at EGEOS. He received a PhD from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim in 2019, for his...

Danny Websdale is an AI/ML research scientist at GeoAcoustics. He received a BEng degree in computer systems engineering (2014) and a PhD in audio-visual speech processing (2019),...

Dariusz Lapucha holds a PhD in Geodesy from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland and an MSc in Surveying Engineering from The University of Calgary, Canada. He is a senior geode...

Darren Wilkinson is employed by Land Surveys in Business Development for Geospatial Services and has been in the geospatial industry for 32 years. He holds qualifications in Cartog...

David Arctur is a research scientist with appointments in engineering, geoscience, and information science at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Prior to joining the universit...

David H. Gray worked for the Canadian Hydrographic Service from 1971 to 2005 and was involved in geodetic surveying computations, radio navigation systems, and maritime boundaries....

David L. Mearns is an expert in the research, location and filming of shipwrecks. During the course of his 30-year career he has led the research and discovery of 24 important deep...

David Monetti holds a DI from the TU Vienna. He is currently CEO at Skyability GmbH, a drone service provider based in Austria. He manages daily business and research projects fund...

David Murrell is a senior hydrographic surveyor at Marine GeoSolutions in Australia. He has more than 16 years’ experience in the hydrographic, geophysical and offshore const...

David Wolcott has been with NOAA as an oceanographer for 9 years developing tide reduction models to support hydrographic operations. He holds a BSc in Physics from the College of...

David Wolcott has been with NOAA as an oceanographer for 5 years and has provided tide reductions to support hydrographic operations. He holds a BSc in Physics from the College of...

Dawn Wright joined Esri as chief scientist in October 2011. Previously, she spent 17 years at Oregon State University as a professor of geography and oceanography, where she m...

Deanna Talbot was the marketing manager at Bluefin Robotics and is responsible for all marketing, advertising and promotional activities with the primary objective to measure, enha...

Demi van de Vondervoort has just been awarded her Cat A-accredited Bachelor of Science degree in Ocean Technology from the Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz. She carried out her t...

Denis Hains holds a Bachelor Degree in Geodetic Sciences, Laval University and is a Québec Land Surveyor.   He worked 35 years in the Public Service of Canada between F...

Derrick R. Peyton is CEO of IIC Technologies and the Governing Council chairman for the IIC Academy. He has been involved in the geomatics community for over 40 years.

Dmitri Travin is a retired captain of the Russian Navy whose professional career included participation in numerous hydrographic surveys around the world. At present, he is the pro...

Dmitry A. Vershinin is a head of the Research Laboratory of Hydrological and Ecological Problems and Associate Professor of the Department of Hydrology at Tomsk State Universi...

Don Pickering has been a long time pioneer of Internet, enterprise applications and big data technology. As CEO of BluHaptics, Don is responsible for strategic planning, partnershi...

Don Ventura is a hydrographic business development manager with Fugro, helping to lead the company’s SDB service offering. He is a Charge IHO Category ‘A’ Su...

Douglas O'Brien is a member of the S-121 project team, a spatial data engineering consultant, and president of IDON Technologies Inc. He is currently the International Convenor of...

Dr Benjamin Williamson’s research includes AUVs, multibeam sonar and algorithm development at the University of Aberdeen, including the FLOWBEC project which investigates the...

Dr Cai Bird has worked with Marlan Maritime Technologies since its foundation in 2013. His research focuses on developing and applying novel algorithms to remote sensing data in or...

Dr. Charles Calkoen studied physics at the universities of Utrecht and Amsterdam. In the last 30 years, he was involved in oceanography and remote sensing, developing hydrodynamic...

Dr. Conor Cahalane performs applied research using satellite, airborne and UAV data for coastal mapping and monitoring at the National Centre for Geocomputation (NCG), Maynoot...

Dr Daniel Ierodiaconou is a senior lecturer at Deakin University, Warrnambool, Victoria. He is a marine ecologist interested in multidisciplinary and multi-scalar approaches to hab...

Dr McFarlane is Professor of Biology and Environmental Science at the Claremont Colleges in Southern California, USA. He received his BSc from the University of Liverpool, his MSc...