Maria Pleskach graduated from the National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute' with a degree in underwater acoustic engineering. She is currently employed...

Maria Simsky is a technical writer in marketing and communication at Septentrio. She has an engineering background with in-depth experience of GNSS technologies and software. She i...

Maria Teresa Reis, with a 5-year Degree in Civil Engineering (Coimbra, 1990), an MSc and a PhD in Maritime Civil Engineering (Liverpool, UK, 1992 and 1998), is a research officer w...

Prof Maria Vernet is a senior researcher/phytoplankton ecologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Dr Vernet has conducted research in the Arctic since 1987 and in Antarctica...

Dr Mario Hoppema is a senior chemical oceanographer/biogeochemist based at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany. He received his training in the Netherlands. His wo...

Marita Luk has over a decade of experience as the business development manager for the School of Construction and the Environment at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (B...

Mark Gray is a hydrographic surveyor at Swathe Services, which offers equipment rental, sales support and personnel to the marine hydrographic survey industry in the UK and Ireland...

Mark Pronk is Business Developer for Teledyne CARIS. For the last 14 years he has been working in the Marine Geospatial industry. Mark has worked for Teledyne CARIS, Eiva and Geoma...

Mark Smits is Woolpert's geospatial program director and senior associate. A technical specialist, Smits is responsible for a wide range of geospatial services, ranging from photog...

Mark Warner is Marketing & PR Director at Inmarsat Maritime. He has over 18 years’ experience in the maritime industry and is a University of Plymouth alumnus, holdi...

Marten Hogeweg is product manager at Esri.

Martin Austin is a Senior Lecturer in Coastal Sediment Dynamics in the School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor University, UK. His research focuses on the wave- and tidally-driven trans...

During his military career, he was the senior policy lead negotiating the shared objectives for the Allied System for Geospatial Intelligence (ASG), a geospatial intelligence burde...

Dr Martin Pfennigbauer holds a PhD in engineering from Vienna University of Technology. He has been employed by RIEGL Laser Measurement Systems since 2005, presently as director of...

Mary T Crowly is the founder and executive director of the Ocean Voyages Institute, established in 1979 as a public charity based in Sausalito, California (US), with the goal of pr...

Mashkoor Malik is a Physical Scientist (Hydrographer) with NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research. Mr. Malik received his MS in Ocean Mapping and IHO Category A certificatio...

Massimo Caccia’s research focuses on the design, development and application of cooperative unmanned marine vehicles. He is currently prime investigator in the EMFF-EASME Blu...

Dr Mathias Jonas is the secretary-general of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO). Prior to this appointment he was vice president of the Federal Maritime and Hydrogra...

Mathieu Rondeau holds a bachelor degree in surveying engineering from l’École Supérieure des Géomètres et Topographes (Le Mans, France) and a mast...

Matthew Lee Crowley is a project surveyor at DeepOcean Management AS, supporting a major survey contract and providing technical input to commercial tenders. He graduated from Plym...

Matthew Thompson is the technical lead the Naval Oceanographic Office’s Hydrographic Department. He has received his BSc in Oceanography from the Florida Institute of Technol...

Matthew Wilson is a physical scientist with the NOAA Office of Coast Survey. He works at the Atlantic Hydrographic Branch in Norfolk, Virginia, involved in data verification, softw...

Ing. Mattijs de Lange Bsc is educated as civil engineer and hydrographic surveyor at the Amsterdam University for Applied Sciences. Since the 1980s he is engaged in offshore marine...

Matt Quartley has headed the environmental monitoring instrument company, Valeport, since 2005. With a background in defining and specifying new products for development, he leads...

Michael Bergmann is owner at BM Bergmann-Marine, a maritime consultants and advisor agency. Since 2004 he has been working closely with international organisations in the...

Michael MacHutchon – "Mac” – is a specialist marine geophysicist with over 17 years of experience in advanced geophysical post-processing and coastal, near- and o...

Michael Sutherland is head of the Department of Geomatics Engineering and Land Management, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, and is an S-121 project team memb...

Michel Hofsteede is manager Operations at Rijksrederij. Before this position, he fulfilled several human resources-related positions at Rijkswaterstaat. Before these positions, he...

Michel Legris, Eng, PhD, is an Associate Professor at École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Bretagne, Brest, France. After working for several year...

Mike Brissette is a Hydrographer and the technical sales engineer for R2Sonic, LLC. Prior to joining R2Sonic in 2013 Mike was the president of MosaicHydro Ltd, and also served 20 y...

Mike Poole developed the original ideas and design iterations for the AutoNaut over a number of years.  He has a wealth of practical marine operations experience including 10...

Mike Prince is the Director National Charting Program for the Australian Hydrographic Service. He served the Royal Australian Navy as hydrographic surveyor, navigator and commandin...

Mohd Zainee bin Zainal is lecturer of the Sea-to-Space Advanced Mapping (S2SAM) Research Group at the Center of Studies for Surveying Sciences and Geomatics (CSSSG) for t...

Muhammad Abdul Hakim Muhamad is a researcher at the Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He received his PhD fr...

Najhan Md Said (PhD) is a professional hydrographic surveyor. He is currently serving the Royal Malaysian Navy as First Admiral. He is actively involved in national and internation...

Narada Warakagoda is a principal scientist at FFI. He previously worked at Telenor R&D and SINTEF, contributing mainly to speech recognition and the Internet of Things. Warakag...

Dr Nathan Quadros is the digital & spatial business lead in the executive leadership team at Veris. He has spent more than 20 years deeply involved in the acquisition of both t...

Neville Ching was the Project Manager for the 2001, 2004 and 2006 Antarctic voyages and is the Contracts Manager at NIWA, Wellington, NZ

Nick Hough is a technical adviser with IMCA, primarily supporting supporting the IMCA Health, Safety, Security & Environment (HSSE) committee and the Offshore Su...

Nick Smart – Technical Sales Support, Applanix.Nick is an experienced Hydrographic Surveyor with over 10 years’ experience. He joined Applanix in 2020 to provide pre-sa...

Commander Nicola Marco Pizzeghello joined the Italian Navy in 1997. After studies at the Naval Academy in Livorno, he earned a degree in Political Sciences focused on International...

After his education in hydrography, Nicolàs de Hilster was employed by Osiris from 1989 to 1996. He then moved to the Survey Department of Rijkswaterstaat (GAM-Department)....

Nicolas Le Dantec is a researcher in coastal geosciences at the University of Brest, studying morphosedimentary changes and sediment transport processes across the coastal zone and...

Niels Kinneging is geophysicist and senior consultant at Rijkswaterstaat. He works on various topics related to monitoring and data management with special interest in hydrogr...

Niels Nijhuis is acocunt manager at Teledyne Caris EMEA. He started his career in the Hydrographic Service of the Royal Netherlands Navy as manager of personnel onboard the HNLMS L...

Nigel Townsend is the founder of Coastal Hydrographic Pty Ltd. Nigel spent 18 years in the Royal Australian Navy as a hydrographic surveyor prior to 12 years at Fugro LADS, where h...

Nikos Mavrommatis is the founder and business development manager of Intelligent Machines P.C., Greece. He has designed and built various unmanned solutions for customized demands...

Ninan Mathew has a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering with Distinction from the University of Wollongong. He worked as a research engineer for several ARC projects dur...

Noel Dyer is a developer and cartographer with NOAA’s Marine Chart Division (MCD). He earned his BSc (2011) and MSc (2016) from George Mason University and is beginning his P...

Norbert Ott is scientific editor of the IBCSO mapping programme at AWI Bremerhaven, Germany. Before joining the ocean mapping world, he was a postdoctoral research fellow and lectu...