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...

Giuseppe Masetti is a research faculty at the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (University of New Hampshire, USA). His research interests span from methods to improve survey da...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

Lieutenant Commander Gustavo Adolfo Gómez-Pimpollo Crespo is Hydrographic Engineer, and has been the Commanding Officer of R/V Malaspina since July 2017. He starte...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

 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...

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...

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...

Marine geologist at the British Geological Survey.

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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&...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Javier Tegedor received an MSc in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in 2005. He has a PhD in Geomatics from the Norwegian University of Lif...

A former Naval Aviator and senior Cat A Hydrographer, Jean Laporte is currently Chairman of the IHO Hydrographic Dictionary Working Group and ARGANS managing director. He has spent...

Eng. General J. Laporte, a distinguished SHOM hydrographer, pioneered SDB as early as 1987. He is presently SHOM Senior International Advisor.

Jelle Tamminga gained a BSc in  Ocean Technology at Terschelling last year. He now works as a hydrographic surveyor for Deep BV in Amsterdam, and was one of the surveyors who...

For the past nine years, Jennifer Jencks has been working at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI...

Jens Lowag works as a project manager for Innomar Technologie GmbH. He holds a Master of Research in Marine Geology and Geophysics from the University of Southampton, UK.

Jeroen van Reenen obtained his BSc Hydrographer at Nautical College of Amsterdam in 1991. Before joining the Port of Rotterdam in 1999, Jeroen worked  at Royal Boskalis D...