Dr. Jenny Hanafin was awarded a PhD in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography by the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami and joined TechWor...

Dr Jyotika Virmani is senior director for planet & environment at XPRIZE and prize lead for the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE. Dr Virmani has over a decade of professional exper...

Dr. Knut Hartmann is director Client Services for EOMAP. During his educational and professional background in environmental science and remote sensing he was involved in projects...

Dr. Koen Blom received his MSc in Computer Science in 2009 and received his PhD on blind equalisation techniques for underwater communications in 2014, both from the Technical Univ...

Dr. Magnus Wettle is managing director for EOMAP Australia Pty Ltd. With more than 15 years experience in aquatic remote sensing, he has previously held positions at the University...

Dr. Martin Juhl Jørgensen, received BScEE and MScEE degrees from the Technical University of Denmark, where he recently completed and successfully defended an industrial PhD...

Dr. Mikael Bliksted Larsen, received MSc and PhD degrees (2001) in engineering from the Technical University of Denmark. Mikael is an acknowledged expert in subsea navigation and A...

Dr Mike Osborne, managing director of OceanWise, is an oceanographer and marine data specialist. He worked in the oil & gas sector as a consultant across the world before headi...

Prof Dr Mohd Razali Mahmud is head of GeoCoastal Research Unit, Faculty of Geoinformation and Real Estate, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). He is Chair, Commission 4,...

Dr Paul Bell is associate head of Ocean Technology & Engineering at the UK’s National Oceanography Centre. He specialises in the development of marine radar remote sensin...

Product Director, Sonar Systems at NORBIT Subsea

Dr Peter Ramsay is Business Development Leader at HYPACK, a Xylem Brand. Before entering in this position, he was a director of Marine GeoSolutions in Australia and has been involv...

Dr.rer.nat. Poerbandono is Associate Professor in Hydrography and course coordinator of FIG/IHO/ICA Category A Hydrographic Surveyor Profession Education Programme at Geodesy and G...

Dr. Stefania Giodini received her MSc in Physics from Universitá degli Studi Milano-Bicocca (Italy) in 2006 and her PhD in Astrophysics from LMU/ Max Planck Institute f...

Dr. Thomas Hasiotis is Assistant Professor at the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece. His work focuses on marine geology / sedi...

Dr. Thomas Heege, CEO, founded EOMAP in 2006 as spin-off from the German Aerospace Center DLR. He has more than 20 years of research, development and industry experience in satelli...

Thomas Ruth received his diploma in Computer Science in 2003. He is now the head of the Visualisation group at Fraunhofer IGD’s department of Maritime Graphics. His research...

Mr. Xavier Monteys is a marine geologist at the Geological Survey of Ireland where he joined the marine and geophysics mapping programme in 2001. Since 2005, he has been worki...

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...

Durk Haarsma is publishing director of Geomares Publishing. He was publisher at Reed Business Geo for almost five years before Geomares Publishing was formed by a management buy-ou...

Dwight F. Coleman, marine research scientist and the director of the Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography in Narragansett, RI, is a...

Dylan Colson is an Australasian Certified Professional Hydrographic Surveyor at Level 1. With over ten years’ experience in the industry, working mainly in the ports and dred...

Dylan Davis is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. He earned his MA and BS in Anthropology and BA in Geography from Bingham...

Ed Kuwalek is the vice president of software engineering at IIC Technologies in North Vancouver, Canada. Mr Kuwalek has 25 years of experience designing and successfully delivering...

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...

Eelco Bijl is technical director at CDR International BV and mainly involved in the design of Ports, Land Reclamations and Breakwaters, focusing on practical and expertise consulta...

Egbert Ypma studied Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering at Delft University. After his military service in the Dutch Navy he worked for Heerema (working on simulations, DP...

Elizabeth Stacey is the Corporate Communications Manager for the Royal Australian Navy’s Hydrographic, Meteorological and Oceanographic Force Element Group. She has worked in...

Eric Duporte has been the head of the Business Development Department at the SHOM institute since 2015. He has been at SHOM since 1992, where he was responsible for the organisatio...

Eric Munday is the principal of SUBSEA 20/20, providing sales and support for an array of hydroacoustic & oceanographic instruments and underwater communication systems.

Ernest van der Spek graduated in electrical engineering from The Hague Technical University in 1988. From 1979 till 1990, he worked at the Technical University Delft, and in 1990 j...

Eunice Nuerkie Tetteh is a fisheries officer at the Marine Fisheries Research Division of the Fisheries Commission of the Ministry of Fisheries in Ghana. She just completed a one y...

Fabrice Weinbach has been the director of the Maritime Safety and Security Business Unit at the OCEA shipyard since 2010. Prior to this, he was deputy for this activity and directo...

Fantina Madricardo received her MSc in physics in 1999 at the University of Padua, Italy and her PhD in Theoretical Physics in 2002 at the University of Hamburg, Germany. In 2008,...

Feitse Leemburg studied 'Hydrographic Surveyor' at the Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz located on Terschelling and finished summer 2017. This research is part of the graduation...

Fernando Landet, Hydrographic technician - Sky Ring Marine Chile- Fernando Landeta is a Civil Engineer and a professional and technical diver from Chile. He did his Master's in Coa...

Finn Delaney is operations manager at Geomara. He has a Masters in Archaeological Geophysics and is an IHO Cat B Surveyor. He has managed projects in Ireland, the Mediterranean and...

Francisco J. Gutierrez is product specialist for the GeoSwath 4, Pulsar and TOPAS systems manufactured by GeoAcoustics Ltd. He previously worked as technologist for the Spanish Res...

Frank Köster trained as a Hydrographic Surveyor and has since 2004 been employed by the Hamburg Port Authorities. First as the head of hydrographic data processing and since 2...

Frans Nijsen obtained his BSc Hydrographer at the Nautical College of Amsterdam in 2003. After his graduation, he joined QPS as a software support engineer, focusing on Qastor and...

Frédérique Coumans is contributing editor for GIM International. For more than 25 years, she has been covering all aspects of spatial data infrastructures as editor-i...

Friedhelm Moggert-Kägeler has an educational background in Geodesy/Hydrography and holds a degree in both fields. He joined SevenCs in 2000 and he has worked in various positi...

Gabriele Bruzzone received a degree with distinction in Electronic Engineering from the University of Genoa in 1993. Since 1996, he has been working as a researcher at CNR-INM, and...

Gabriel Joyal is a geomatics researcher specialized in coastal and marine geomatics at the Center for geomatics of Quebec, a college centre for applied R&D and technology trans...

Gavin Irvine has worked at SeeByte for over six years.  He has been involved with the development of subsea autonomy, and is currently the Engineering Manager in charge of See...

Dr Gema Casal holds a degree in marine biology and a PhD on coastal remote sensing and GIS. She is interested in the application of remote sensing technologies, especially optical...

Captain George Galdorisi, U.S. Navy (Retired), is a career naval aviator who began his writing career in 1978 with an article in Proceedings. 

Giacomo Picardi is a robotic engineer specialized in bioinspired design and control. His research focuses on abstracting locomotion and manipulation principles observed in marine a...

Gilles Bessero has about 30 years of experience in conducting hydro-oceanographic activities at sea and ashore. He was the director general of SHOM and French National Hydrographer...