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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Jamie McMichael-Phillips is director of The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project. A hydrographic surveyor and former Royal Navy captain, Jamie has worked in a range of leade...

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...

Jan Majcher holds a Master’s in Oceanography from the University of Gdansk, Poland, and a PhD in Environmental Science from Ulster University, Ireland. His academic research...

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...

Jasbir Randhawa (FGCA (CPHS 1), Cat A HS), Australian Hydrographic Office (AHO), assistant director external relations & AHSCP Secretary (1994-2023). He has over 30 years of ex...

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...

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

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...

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...

Jesse Varner has been a GIS specialist at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) in Boulder, Colorado for 12 years. He has a degree in Computer Science from t...

Jessica Keyers works at FrontierSI in the role of project manager and technical support. She has a broad range of skills and experience, focusing on topographic and bathymetric Lid...

Jim Gardiner is a Research Scientist at Valeport Ltd.  He holds an MSc Applied Marine Science and a BSc (Hons) in Ocean Science – both from Plymouth University – a...

Jim Rojer received an MSc degree in Control and Simulation from Delft University of Technology in 2017. In the same year, he founded a startup for the advanced control of multi-rot...

Jindong Wang has been with NOAA and Earth Resources Technology, Inc. as a hydrodynamic modeller for 4 years. He holds a PhD in physical Oceanography from the Marine Science Researc...

Joanne Masters is president of Masters and Masters, a full service marketing and communications consulting firm. With decades of experience in high technology sales and marketing t...

João Ventura da Cruz is a Lieutenant and Hydrographic Surveyor in the Portuguese Navy. He attended the Portuguese Naval Academy from 2004 to 2009 and earned a Master's Degre...

Joseph Avis received his BSc in Physical Geography before completing his MSc in Remote Sensing and GIS at Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK, in 2017 and 2018 respectively. His MSc...

Dr Joël Hirschi is the associate head of marine systems modelling at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK. His role involves studying ocean models and the effec...

John Andrews is a research scientist associate at the Bureau of Economic Geology where he has worked on Lidar projects since 2000.  Though versed in various GIS and RS applica...

John Church is an oceanographer with Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Marine and Atmospheric Research and the Antarctic Climat...

NORBIT UK and Middle East director