Julian Le Deunf is a French hydrographic category A engineer. After graduating in 2015 from ENSTA Bretagne, where he completed a six-month internship at CCOM (UNH, US), he started...

Julia Powell is the Electronic Navigational Chart technical director for NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey and represents the United States on various standards committee’s...

Julià Talaya holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics. He has worked for ICGC for 32 years in various management roles, including GNSS positioning, aerial surveys, remote sensing...

Justin Brei is a licensed professional civil engineer in Nebraska and Colorado with experience in design, permitting, bidding and construction administration for wetland restoratio...

Justin Manley is a technologist and executive experienced in multiple sectors. Mr. Manley founded Just Innovation Inc. in mid-2015 to support clients involved with unmanned vehicle...

Justy Siwabessy is a marine acoustic scientist at Geoscience Australia. His research focuses on seabed mapping, particularly on multibeam bathymetry and backscatter and their appli...

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

Karen Hart has a comprehensive geospatial and hydrographic background and has been working in hydrography and geosciences for over 25 years. She joined Woolpert in early 2022 and i...

Karen Marks is a geophysicist at the NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry, in College Park, Maryland, USA.  Her research focuses on satellite altimetry, bathymetric predict...

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 days as a maritime surface of...

Kasey Cantwell is the Operations Chief for NOAA Ocean Exploration, responsible for mission operations aboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. She oversees telepresence-enabled explorati...

Katy Greenland is originally from Melbourne, Australia, and now lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She holds undergraduate degrees in social science majoring in psychology and so...

Kevin Whyte is a project manager and marine civil engineer at the subsea asset protection and intervention division of Geomara. He completed his undergraduate B Eng. degree and als...

Kim Picard is a marine geoscientist at Geoscience Australia. Her research focuses on using mapping techniques to understand the processes that shape the seafloor across a wide...

Kira Coley is a freelance science and technology writer specialising in the ocean science and technology. She is a regular contributor to several leading trade magazines and t...

Kirill Otradnov is partner, CTO and chief designer at BaltRobotics. He is an experienced project manager in complex international projects on robotics, telecommunication and c...

Klaus von Bröckel is a senior scientist at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany., He started with all aspects of phytoplankton ecology more than 40 y...

Kristiyan Panayotov is a land survey engineer who graduated from the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy in Sofia, Bulgaria. He also studied Cartography and T...

Kutalmis Saylam is employed as a research scientist associate at the Bureau of Economic Geology, of the Jackson School of Geosciences, at the University of Texas at Austin. He has...

Kyle Goodrich is the president and founder of TCarta. With a 24-year career in geospatial, hydrospatial and hydrographic fields, Kyle is a passionate leader within the ocean mappin...

Larry Mayer is a professor and director of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire. His research deals with sonar imaging and remote characteriz...

Lars Langhorst (MSc) is a pioneer at the frontier where AI meets surveying and asset management. With a background in geomatics and AI, Langhorst believes the next big innovat...

Laura Coelho de Andrade is a geomatic engineer. She is a Master’s student in Spatial Information (Geodesy and Hydrography) at the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV). S...

Laura Robinson is a Reader in Geochemistry at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. Her research is focused on documenting and understanding the processes that govern climate on...

Laurens van der Marel graduated from the Ocean Technology course (Cat A) at the MIWB. After working as a hydrographic surveyor, he pursued a master’s degree in Earth Sciences...

Laurentiu-Florin Constantinoiu obtained his Cat. A hydrographic surveying diploma from the University of Plymouth, UK and is currently a PhD student at the Department of Mechanical...

After majoring in maths and graduating from the École Supérieure d’Électricité, Laurent Louvart undertook postgraduate studies in Computer Science...

Laurie Biscara earned her PhD in Marine Geology from Bordeaux University in 2011. She has been working at SHOM since 2012 and has participated extensively in the implementation of...

Lawrence Haselmaier is an Oceanographer for the Naval Oceanographic Office'sHydrographic Department. He has received his BSc in Physics from the University of Alabama and his MSc i...

Layton Quinton is head of Marine Information Products and Services at the National Oceanographic Centre (NOC). Layton has over 20 years of experience in the development and launch...

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 Physical Oceanography from the Ro...

Leandro Ponsoni is an oceanographer graduate from the University of São Paulo, where he also completed his master thesis. He has a PhD in physical oceanography from Utr...

Leo Maas is an oceanographer, interested in waves in stratified and rotating fluids. He has published over 60 papers in international journals and teaches a class on internal...

Leonardo Ponce de León is a hydrographic surveyor category “A” and head of the hydrographic survey division of the Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation, spe...

Liam Flynn – Survey Operations Manager, A-2-SeaLiam is an experienced Hydrographic Surveyor with over 8 years’ experience. Liam has been managing the survey department...

Liane Rosario is a geospatial data analyst with the Illinois State Geological Survey with an emphasis on shallow subsurface imaging technologies and geological sampling. Most recen...

Lígia Falleiros Fontes, DVM, holds postgraduate degrees in small animal medicine, surgery, and dermatology. With extensive expertise in diagnostic imaging and clinical inter...

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 operations. She holds a MSc in...

Lijuan Huang has been with NOAA as an oceanographer for 10 years developing tide reduction models to support hydrographic operations. She holds an MSc in Geological Oceanography fr...

Lilian Lieber is a PhD student at the University of Aberdeen investigating basking shark behavioural ecology using hydroacoustic methods. Her wider research focuses on basking shar...

Ms. Lisa Brisson was the lead engineer for EdgeTech’s bathymetric products. Her expertise is in underwater acoustics and hydrographic surveying. Over the last years she...

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 Physics from St. Louis Univer...

Louis Maltais is Director of Navigation Geospatial Services and Support at the CHS. Based in Ottawa, he leads national efforts on CHS products and services. Louis has played a key...

Lt Cdr Chukwuma Azuike is a hydrographer with the Nigerian Hydrographic Office. He graduated with a BSc from the Nigerian Defense Academy (2000) and an MSc from CCOM, UNH (2012).

LtCdr João Vicente has been a hydrographer (CAT A) at the Portuguese Hydrographic Institute since 2000, with an MSc in GIS Science from Lisbon University (2011). He is curre...

Lieutenant Commander Michael Gonsalves has been working with NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey for over ten years. He has served sea tours aboard the hydrographic survey ships Ra...

LT Christine Schultz is an officer in the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps serving as the technical operations coordinator at the National Weather Service’s Ocean Prediction C...

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 decade. He holds an MSc/PgDip in...

Onogateoghene Idoge is a naval officer and Category A hydrographic surveyor with the National Hydrographic Agency (Nigeria). He specializes in multibeam data processing, backscatte...

Luis Americo Conti received his BSc in Geography, MSc in Physical Oceanography and PhD in Marine Geology from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Today he is associate prof...