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Featured Authors

Matthew Thompson

Matthew Thompson is the technical lead the Naval Oceanographic Office’s Hydrographic Departmen... (read more)

Douglas O'Brien

Douglas O'Brien is a member of the S-121 project team, a spatial data engineering consultant, and pr... (read more)

Tor Arne Paulsen

Tor Arne Paulsen, Survey Technical manager of DeepOcean AS, based in Haugesund, Norway has over 20 y... (read more)
Contributors to Hydro International

John Hedley

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John Hersey

John Hersey is the Research and Technology Team leader for SURVICE’s Applied Technology Operation, focused on the development of innovative solu... (read more)

John Hupp

John Hupp is a research scientist associate at the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin.  His background is in GIS and... (read more)

John J. Woo

John J. Woo finished his mechanical engineering doctoral degree at the Illinois Institute of Technology of the USA in 1990. He developed the 6,000m cl... (read more)

John Mitchell

John Mitchell works within the marine geology group at NIWA, Wellington and was the Voyage and Project Leader for the 2001, 2004 and 2006 Antarctic vo... (read more)

John Pepper

John Pepper is marketing director at OceanWise. He trained as both a land and hydrographic surveyor and has 40 years’ geospatial experience work... (read more)

John Pinder

John Pinder is Port Hydrographer at Port of London Authority. John went to sea with P&O as a deck officer cadet in 1975, serving as a deck of... (read more)

John Sperring

John Sperring, Royal Australian Navy Reserve Capability Manager Lieutenant Commander, manages thirty active Naval Reserves, providing the Australian H... (read more)

John Vint

John Vint graduated from Newcastle University with a BSc in Surveying Science. After university he joined Racal Survey and then via acquisitions... (read more)

Jonathan Beaudoin

Jonathan earned a PhD in the field of Marine Geomatics from the University of New Brunswick (UNB, Fredericton, Canada), specialising in multibeam data... (read more)

Jonathan Pritchard

Jonathan Pritchard is an IHO S-100 expert, and a S-121 project team industry representative. He is a senior technical manager at IIC Technologies in t... (read more)

Jonathan Turner

Jonathan Turner is an Associate at NLA Ltd. As a professional proponent of organisational change Jonathan has a record of achievement in the private,... (read more)

Joost Boers

Joost Boers has held various positions at Geomares Publishing since 2006. In October 2013, he became editorial manager of Hydro International. He was... (read more)

José Martinez Diaz

José Martínez Díaz is a survey products supervisor with Fugro, working extensively on ALB projects. He is an NSPS/THSOA Cert... (read more)

Julia Powell

Julia Powell is the Electronic Navigational Chart technical director for NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey and represents the United States on vario... (read more)

Justin Manley

Justin Manley is a technologist and executive experienced in multiple sectors. Mr. Manley founded Just Innovation Inc. in mid-2015 to support clients... (read more)

Justy Siwabessy

Justy Siwabessy is a marine acoustic scientist at Geoscience Australia. His research focuses on seabed mapping, particularly on multibeam bathymetry a... (read more)

Kam Austine

Kam Austine is employed by EGS Survey PTY Ltd (Australia) as business development manager. He studied MSc Hydrographic Surveyor. The EGS Group of... (read more)

Karen Marks

Karen Marks is a geophysicist at the NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry, in College Park, Maryland, USA.  Her research focuses on satellite... (read more)

Karl Kenny

Karl Kenny, president and CEO of Kraken Sonar Systems, grew up in a small fishing village in Newfoundland with connections to the sea. Since his early... (read more)

Katy Barbier-Greenland

Katy Barbier-Greenland is originally from Melbourne, Australia, and now lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She holds undergraduate degrees in social... (read more)

Kevin Whyte

Kevin Whyte is a project manager and marine civil engineer at the subsea asset protection and intervention division of Geomara. He completed his under... (read more)

Kim Picard

Kim Picard is a marine geoscientist at Geoscience Australia. Her research focuses on using mapping techniques to understand the processes that sh... (read more)

Kira Coley

Kira Coley is a freelance science and technology writer specialising in the ocean science and technology. She is a regular contributor to several... (read more)

Kirill Otradnov

Kirill Otradnov is partner, CTO and chief designer at BaltRobotics. He is an experienced project manager in complex international projects on rob... (read more)

Klaus von Bröckel

Klaus von Bröckel is a senior scientist at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany., He started with all aspects of phytop... (read more)

Kristiyan Panayotov

Kristiyan Panayotov is a land survey engineer who graduated from the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia, Bulgaria. He... (read more)

Kutalmis Saylam

Kutalmis Saylam is employed as a research scientist associate at the Bureau of Economic Geology, of the Jackson School of Geosciences, at the Universi... (read more)

Laura Robinson

Laura Robinson is a Reader in Geochemistry at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Her research is focused on documenting and understanding the pro... (read more)

Laurie Biscara

Laurie Biscara earned her PhD in Marine Geology from Bordeaux University in 2011. She has been working at SHOM since 2012 and has participated extensi... (read more)

Lawrence Haselmaier

Lawrence Haselmaier is an Oceanographer for the Naval Oceanographic Office'sHydrographic Department. He has received his BSc in Physics from the Unive... (read more)

LCDR Cesar Reinert Morais

LCDR Cesar Reinert B Morais graduated from the Brazilian Naval Academy in 1997, became a Hydrographer in 2001 and earned an MSc in Meteorology and Phy... (read more)

Leandro Posoni

Leandro Ponsoni is an oceanographer graduate from the University of São Paulo, where he also completed his master thesis. He has a PhD in... (read more)

Leo Maas

Leo Maas is an oceanographer, interested in waves in stratified and rotating fluids. He has published over 60 papers in international journals an... (read more)

Lijuan Huang

Lijuan Huang has been with NOAA and The Baldwin Group, Inc. as an oceanographer for 9 years and has provided tide reductions to support hydrographic o... (read more)

Lijuan Huang

Lijuan Huang has been with NOAA as an oceanographer for 10 years developing tide reduction models to support hydrographic operations. She holds an MSc... (read more)

Lilian Lieber

Lilian Lieber is a PhD student at the University of Aberdeen investigating basking shark behavioural ecology using hydroacoustic methods. Her wider re... (read more)

Lisa Brisson

Ms. Lisa Brisson was the lead engineer for EdgeTech’s bathymetric products. Her expertise is in underwater acoustics and hydrographic surve... (read more)

Louis Licate

Louis Licate has been with NOAA as an oceanographer for 5 years developing tide reduction models to support hydrographic operations. He holds a BSc in... (read more)

Lt Cdr Chukwuma Azuike

Lt Cdr Chukwuma Azuike is a hydrographer with the Nigerian Hydrographic Office. He graduated with a BSc from the Nigerian Defense Academy (2000) and a... (read more)

Lt Cdr João Vincente

LtCdr João Vicente has been a hydrographer (CAT A) at the Portuguese Hydrographic Institute since 2000, with an MSc in GIS Science from Lisbon... (read more)

Lt Cdr Michael Gonsalves

Lieutenant Commander Michael Gonsalves has been working with NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey for over ten years. He has served sea tours aboard th... (read more)

LT Christine Schultz

LT Christine Schultz is an officer in the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps serving as the technical operations coordinator at the National Weather Serv... (read more)

Lt Georgios Georgopoulos

Lieutenant Georgios Georgopoulos graduated from the Hellenic Navy Academy in 2003 and served in a variety of roles across a range of vessels for a dec... (read more)

Luis Conti

Luis Americo Conti received his BSc in Geography, MSc in Physical Oceanography and PhD in Marine Geology from the University of São Paulo, Braz... (read more)

Luís Santos

Luís Santos is a survey engineer at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL, 1992-1997) with a Post-Degree i n Geodesy (2002-... (read more)

Maaten Furlong

Maaten Furlong joined NOC in 2005 as an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) development engineer and has been involved in all aspects of AUV developme... (read more)

Maggie Tran

Maggie Tran works as project manager at Geoscience Australia, involved in data processing and coordinating the public delivery of the seabed data acqu... (read more)

Marcelo Rodrigues

Marcelo Rodrigues is a geologist, has a PhD in Hydraulic Engineering, and worked at the Oceanographic Institute of University of São Paulo in M... (read more)

Marck Smit

Marck Smit graduated in Maritime Technology from the Delft University of Technology. For more than a decade he was responsible for the NIOZ Marine Tec... (read more)
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