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Robert Ward

Robert Ward

Robert Ward was elected as one of the three co-Directors of the Secretariat of the International Hydrographic Organization, based in Monaco, in September 2007. Re-elected in 2012 f...

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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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Jan Bremnes

Jan Bremnes

Jan Bremnes is employed by The Institute of Marine Research (IMR) as senior engineer at the Department of Instrumentation. During the building process of <i>Kronprins Haakon&...

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Contributors to Hydro International

Gabriele Bruzzone

Gabriele Bruzzone

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...

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Gabriel Joyal

Gabriel Joyal

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...

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Gavin Irvine

Gavin Irvine

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...

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Gema Casal

Gema Casal

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...

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George Galdorisi

George Galdorisi

Captain George Galdorisi (USN, retired) is a career naval aviator whose 30 years of active duty service included four command tours and five years as a carrier strike group chief o...

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Giacomo Picardi

Giacomo Picardi

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...

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Gilles Bessero

Gilles Bessero

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...

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Giuseppe Masetti

Giuseppe Masetti

After having served with the Italian Navy as a hydrographic officer, Giuseppe Masetti joined the UNH’s Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping as a researcher. Masetti has worke...

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Gordon Johnston

Gordon Johnston

Gordon Johnston, BSc(Hons), MRICS, FHydSoc, FRIN Gordon is based in the United Kingdom and has over 25 years of experience in the surveying industry, in particular, the offshore an...

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Gottfried Mandlburger

Gottfried Mandlburger

Gottfried Mandlburger studied geodesy at TU Wien, where he also obtained his Ph.D. in 2006. After finishing a 3-years research stay at the University of Stuttgart (2017-2019), he r...

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Graham Mimpriss

Graham Mimpriss

Graham Mimpriss holds a PG Dip in Hydrographic Surveying from Plymouth University. He has 15 years of experience in surveying and marine science from ships, launches and unman...

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Grégory Mathieu

Grégory Mathieu

Grégory Mathieu has served as a hydrographer for French hydrographic service (SHOM) since 2006. In 2010, he was promoted to administrator of the computer systems on board SH...

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Gretchen Imahori

Gretchen Imahori

Gretchen Imahori has been with NOAA for 14 years and has supported hydrographic operations, researched sound speed and lead OCS’s budget formulation. She has a BSc in Chemist...

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Grzegorz Zaniewicz

Grzegorz Zaniewicz

Grzegorz Zaniewicz, hydrographic surveyor, received an MSc in Navigation from the Maritime University of Szczecin (MUS), Poland in 2009. He has been employed as a research assistan...

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Guillaume Eudeline

Guillaume Eudeline

Guillaume Eudeline joined iXblue in 2017, after a first 17-year career as a Naval Officer in the French Navy and a two-year experience as sales manager in the naval domain. Today,...

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Guillaume Fromant

Guillaume Fromant

Guillaume Fromant is an assistant professor in signal processing at the University of the Littoral Opal Coast, with a background in environmental fluid mechanics and hydrography. H...

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Gustavo Lopez

Gustavo Lopez

Gustavo Lopez is senior market access manager at Septentrio. With over 18 years of experience working with GNSS technology, he is a senior expert with in-depth knowledge of various...

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Guy Van Rentergem

Guy Van Rentergem

Guy Van Rentergem is a chemical engineer and works for MIPS, a company specialised in laboratory information systems in Belgium. He is an active caver with a focus on cave survey a...

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Haite van der Schaaf

Haite van der Schaaf

Haite van der Schaaf studied Electrical Engineering at University of Twente. After his graduation Haite started developing instrumentation, software and systems with a strong focus...

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Hans Cozijn

Hans Cozijn

Hans Cozijn studied Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at Delft University of Technology. After 20 years of experience in hydrodynamic scale model testing and computer simul...

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Hans Visser

Hans Visser

Hans Visser is a geodesist from Delft University who has been working in the field of GNSS for the past 30 years. He currently works for Fugro-Intersite BV in the Netherlands.

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Hans Werner Schenke

Hans Werner Schenke

 has been head of the Bathymetry and Geodesy Group at AWI Bremerhaven since 1983 and responsible for the AWI bathymetric mapping programmes in Artic and Antarctic waters. As c...

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Harald Sternberg

Harald Sternberg

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Sternberg was trained as a surveyor by the German Army (Bundeswehr). He did his doctorate on surveying in 2001 and has been lecturing Geodesy and Hydrography...

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Hayley Cawthra

Hayley Cawthra

Hayley Cawthra is a Chief Scientist in marine geoscience at the Council for Geoscience, South Africa, and a Research Associate at the Nelson Mandela University. She has a PhD from...

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Helen Needham

Helen Needham

After her hydrographic studies, Helen Needham spent 10 years collecting various sources of hydrographic data. She later joined the UKHO as a verification officer before s...

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Hendrik De Beuf

Hendrik De Beuf

Hendrik De Beuf has worked in DEME’s survey department since 2014 and became involved with GSR in 2017 for the development of the prototype deep-sea harvesting vehicles. Sinc...

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Herjuno Gularso

Herjuno Gularso

Herjuno Gularso is a mapping surveyor at the Center for Marine and Coastal Environment Mapping at the Geospatial Information Agency. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Geodes...

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Herman Peters

Herman Peters

After graduating from Delft University of Technology, Herman Peters has worked at Rijkswaterstaat since 1985 in the field of hydraulic measurements, remote sensing, under...

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Hugh Parker

Hugh Parker

Hugh Parker is the product owner for Fugro’s uncrewed surface vessels for hydrographic services. He has a degree in Geoinformatics and Surveying, and a postgraduate diploma i...

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Huibert-Jan Lekkerkerk

Huibert-Jan Lekkerkerk

Huibert-Jan Lekkerkerk is a contributing editor, freelance hydrographic consultant and author of other publications on GNSS and hydrography and principal lecturer in Hydrography at...

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Ian Lewis

Ian Lewis

Ian Lewis is a writer on energy and technology matters for a number of international publications.

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Ian Russell

Ian Russell

Ian Russell is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and Member of the Nautical Institute. He has 25 years’ experience of hydrographic surveys for nautical...

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Inge van den Meiracker

Inge van den Meiracker

Inge van den Meiracker is a MSc graduate student in Geographical Information Management and Applications (GIMA). During her six-month research internship at Archipelagos, she focus...

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Ioseba Tena

Ioseba Tena

Ioseba (Joe) Tena is tasked with shaping and growing Sonardyne’s instrument business for marine robotic systems across all application domains including offshore energy, defe...

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Iris Hoefnagels

Iris Hoefnagels

Iris Hoefnagels has been working as a project manager at the Dutch Marine Energy Centre (DMEC) since 2016, where she is responsible for the ongoing projects in the Netherlands. She...

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Italo Oliveira Ferreira

Italo Oliveira Ferreira

Italo Oliveira Ferreira is a professor in Geomatic Engineering at the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV). He is a geomatic engineer with a Master’s and Doctorate in Sp...

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Ivan Harnett

Ivan Harnett

Ivan Harnett is the renewables market development lead at Acteon with responsibility for building Acteon’s renewables market strategy and engagement with key clients. Prior t...

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Ivar de Josselin de Jong

Ivar de Josselin de Jong

Ivar de Josselin de Jong is solution director remote inspection at Fugro. He has an experience in the offshore industry of over 25 years, being active in various operational and ma...

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Ivo Wenneker

Ivo Wenneker

Since his appointment at Deltares in 2002, Ivo Wenneker has been carrying out research and consultancy work related to wave measurement and processing, laboratory wave ge...

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Jacek Łubczonek

Jacek Łubczonek

Jacek Łubczonek conducts research on hydrographic and topographic data processing using geoinformatics techniques and artificial intelligence methods at the Maritime University of...

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Jack Dangermond

Jack Dangermond

A landscape architect by training, Jack Dangermond founded Esri in 1969 with a vision that a mapping and analysis framework could provide a deeper understanding of our world and he...

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Jacopo Aguzzi

Jacopo Aguzzi

Jacopo Aguzzi’s research focuses on the presence and behaviour of marine species and changes in sampled biodiversity at different temporal scales, making use of new robotic m...

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James Williams

James Williams

James Williams is managing director of Swathe Services, which offers equipment rental and sales support to the marine hydrographic survey industry in the UK and Ireland. Throughout...

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Janine Nauw

Janine Nauw

Janine Nauw is a researcher working at the Coastal System Sciences at NIOZ. She has vast experience in estuarine hydrodynamics, sediment and fish larvae transport, as well as in me...

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Janneke Bos

Janneke Bos

Janneke Bos, BSc, is Rijkswaterstaat’s asset manager of the North Sea. She worked at the Netherlands Hydrographic Office for seven years before she joining Rijkswaterstaat 11...

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Jasmine Dumollin

Jasmine Dumollin

Jasmine Dumollin trained as a geographer and environmental sanitation expert and has worked for several government institutions. She has been working at the Flemish Ministry o...

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Jason Errey

Jason Errey

Jason has over 15 years of experience in the Environmental and Oceanographic industry including extensive experience in managerial roles in Australia and the Middle East, and a Mas...

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