Hydro International's Authors

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Featured Authors

Anna Manning

Anna Manning

Anna Manning is an Oceanographer for the Naval Oceanographic Office’s Hydrographic Quality Assurance Branch in the Hydrographic Department. She has a BSc in Physics from Clem...

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Sanyal Sunil

Sanyal Sunil

Sanyal Sunil (1977) joined the Indian Navy and specialized in hydrographic surveying. He gained his sea legs in the Indian Navy’s Hydrographic Department, nurtured his intere...

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Dr. Jenny Hanafin

Dr. Jenny Hanafin

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...

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Contributors to Hydro International

Edward Moller

Edward Moller

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...

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Eelco Bijl

Eelco Bijl

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...

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Egbert Ypma

Egbert Ypma

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...

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Elias Fakiris

Elias Fakiris

Dr Elias Fakiris is a research associate at the Laboratory of Marine Geology and Physical Oceanography in the Geology department of the University of Patras. He has multidisciplina...

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Elizabeth Stacey

Elizabeth Stacey

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

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Ephraim Friedli

Ephraim Friedli

Ephraim Friedli is an engineering specialist at Axpo Power AG, where he is responsible for bathymetric measurements in the Hydro & Biomass division. He previously worked as a s...

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Eric Duporte

Eric Duporte

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...

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Eric Munday

Eric Munday

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

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Ernest van der Spek

Ernest van der Spek

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...

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Eugen Rusu

Eugen Rusu

Eugen Rusu is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dunărea de Jos University of Galati, Romania, and a PhD coordinator. He has a degree in naval architecture (1...

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Eunice Tetteh

Eunice Tetteh

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...

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Ewan Pelleter

Ewan Pelleter

Ewan Pelleter received a PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Lorraine at Nancy in 2007. He then spent a few years in Canada (Geological Survey of Canada, Québe...

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Fabio Sacchetti

Fabio Sacchetti

Fabio Sacchetti is a project manager, senior hydrographer and team leader for INFOMAR, the Irish National Mapping Programme. Fabio also coordinates various research projects focuse...

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Fabrice Weinbach

Fabrice Weinbach

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...

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Fantina Madricardo

Fantina Madricardo

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,...

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Feitse Leemburg

Feitse Leemburg

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...

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Fernando Landet

Fernando Landet

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...

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Finn Delaney

Finn Delaney

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...

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France Floc’h

France Floc’h

France Floc’h is assistant professor at the University of Brest. She is an expert in nearshore hydro-sedimentary processes, including experimental work (laboratory and field)...

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Francisco J. Gutierrez

Francisco J. Gutierrez

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

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Francisco J. Gutierrez

Francisco J. Gutierrez

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...

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Frank Köster

Frank Köster

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...

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Frans Nijsen

Frans Nijsen

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...

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Frédérique Coumans

Frédérique Coumans

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...

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Friedhelm Moggert-Kägeler

Friedhelm Moggert-Kägeler

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...

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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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George Papatheodorou

George Papatheodorou

George Papatheodorou is professor of Geological and Environmental Oceanography at the Geology department of the University of Patras, Greece, and director of the Laboratory of Mari...

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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 Szalast

Grzegorz Szalast

Grzegorz Szalast is a historian and archaeologist. He is currently the director of sales and business development at GISPRO SA and the owner of ArchService. Over the years, he has...

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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 Rigot

Guy Rigot

Guy Rigot is chief technology officer and co-founder of planblue. Before planblue, he worked on the Attitude and Orbit Control System (AOCS) of the MeteoSat Third Generation (MTG)...

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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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