Hydro International's Authors

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Featured Authors

Duncan Mallace

Duncan Mallace

Duncan Mallace is the Chief Strategy Officer of XOCEAN. He has over 29 years’ experience in the collection, processing and analysis of ocean data. A highly skilled hydrograph...

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Muhammad Abdul Hakim Muhamad

Muhammad Abdul Hakim Muhamad

Muhammad Abdul Hakim Muhamad is a researcher at the Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He received his PhD fr...

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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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Contributors to Hydro International

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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Becky Conway

Becky Conway

With a background in Oceanography and over a decade of hands-on hydrographic and strategic experience, Becky Conway is Solutions Manager at NORBIT. Working with NORBIT Aptomar and...

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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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Ben Simpson

Ben Simpson

Ben Simpson is CEO of SEA-KIT International, a British company providing high-tech, uncrewed surface vessel (USV) solutions to the maritime and research industries. Simpson gained...

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Bernt Larsen

Bernt Larsen

Bernt Larsen is project manager at Field with an MSc in Geosciences. He previously served as technical manager for airborne sensor systems and, since 2017, he has managed numerous...

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Bill Hanot

Bill Hanot

Bill Hanot is vice president, co-owner and co-founder of Sound Metrics Corp.  He was the primary electronic and software designer of various acoustic lens-based imaging sonar...

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Blair Thornton

Blair Thornton

Blair Thornton is Professor of Marine Autonomy at the University of Southampton, UK, based within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences. He previously held an EPSRC Inno...

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Bo Krogh

Bo Krogh

Bo Krogh, senior surveyor, has more than 35 years’ experience in hydrographic, engineering, environmental and archaeological survey projects, including offshore construction...

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Brad Cooper

Brad Cooper

Brad Cooper is a senior hydrographic surveyor at LINZ. In his role he assists with the management of the HYPLAN hydrographic survey programme, managing contracts and validatin...

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Brian Calder

Brian Calder

Brian Calder is a Research Associate Professor and Associate Director at CCOM/JHC (UNH, USA). He is currently focusing on statistically robust automated data processing approaches...

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Brian Connon

Brian Connon

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...

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Bruce Calderbank

Bruce Calderbank

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...

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Bruce Parker

Bruce Parker

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...

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Capt. Albert E. Theberge

Capt. Albert E. Theberge

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...

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Capt. Barry Lusk

Capt. Barry Lusk

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...

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Carlotta Toso

Carlotta Toso

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...

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Carly Nichols

Carly Nichols

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...

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Carol Fisher

Carol Fisher

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...

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Carol Lockhart

Carol Lockhart

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...

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Carolyn Geraghty

Carolyn Geraghty

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....

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Casey Glenn

Casey Glenn

Casey Glenn is electrical engineering lead for Oceaneering International, where he has led electrical engineering projects for over 11 years. He has called Norway home for the past...

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Cees van Dijk

Cees van Dijk

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...

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Charles de Jongh

Charles de Jongh

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...

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Charles de Jongh

Charles de Jongh

Charles de Jongh is business development manager – airborne mapping at Field, where he focuses on the delivery of airborne bathymetric Lidar solutions. He holds an MSc in Car...

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Charlie Fardon

Charlie Fardon

Charlie Fardon is the head of sustainability at the UK Hydrographic Office. She is a highly experienced sustainability professional with an MSc in Global Sustainability Solutions a...

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Chen Zhang

Chen Zhang

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.

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Chris Haworth

Chris Haworth

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...

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Christopher Florentino

Christopher Florentino

Commander Christopher Florentino, cartographic engineer at the Brazilian Navy Hydrographic Center (CHM), holds an MBA in Project Management and a Master’s and PhD in Ocean an...

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Christopher Parrish

Christopher Parrish

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...

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Christopher Yeager

Christopher Yeager

Christopher Yeager has worked in the nautical charting/surveying field for over ten years on a wide range of surveying, charting and S5/S8 instruction contracts that include NOAA,...

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Christophe Vrignaud

Christophe Vrignaud

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...

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Clemens Kirchner

Clemens Kirchner

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...

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Coen Werner

Coen Werner

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...

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Colin Devey

Colin Devey

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,...

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Colleen Peters

Colleen Peters

Colleen Peters is the product manager for mapping software at Kongsberg Discovery. She has over 15 years of at-sea experience collecting and managing scientific data. 

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Conceição Fortes

Conceição Fortes

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...

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Corey Goodrich

Corey Goodrich

Corey Goodrich is a majority owner and managing partner of TCarta, a small Denver, CO-based business specializing in satellite-based innovative technologies for improved modelling...

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Craig Wallace

Craig Wallace

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...

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Dandabathula Giribabu

Dandabathula Giribabu

Dr Dandabathula Giribabu specializes in geospatial applications with an emphasis on the automation of processing chains. He has been affiliated with the Indian Space Research Organ...

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