Hydro International's Authors

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Featured Authors

Marck Smit

Marck Smit

Marck Smit graduated in Maritime Technology from the Delft University of Technology. For more than a decade he was responsible for the NIOZ Marine Technology Department. This depar...

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Annette Wilkinson

Annette Wilkinson

Annette Wilkinson is a hydrographic surveyor at the New Zealand Hydrographic Authority at LINZ. Her role helps ensure safe navigation in New Zealand waters, focusing on project pla...

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Contributors to Hydro International

LCDR Cesar Reinert Morais

LCDR Cesar Reinert Morais

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...

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Leandro Posoni

Leandro Posoni

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...

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Leo Maas

Leo Maas

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...

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Liam Flynn

Liam Flynn

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...

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Liane Rosario

Liane Rosario

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...

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Lijuan Huang

Lijuan Huang

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...

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Lijuan Huang

Lijuan Huang

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...

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Lilian Lieber

Lilian Lieber

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...

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Lisa Brisson

Lisa Brisson

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...

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Louis Licate

Louis Licate

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...

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Lt Cdr Chukwuma Azuike

Lt Cdr Chukwuma Azuike

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).

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Lt Cdr João Vincente

Lt Cdr João Vincente

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...

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Lt Cdr Michael Gonsalves

Lt Cdr Michael Gonsalves

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...

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LT Christine Schultz

LT Christine Schultz

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...

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Lt Georgios Georgopoulos

Lt Georgios Georgopoulos

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...

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Luis Conti

Luis Conti

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...

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Luís Santos

Luís Santos

Luís Santos is a survey engineer at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL, 1992-1997) with a Post-Degree i n Geodesy (2002-2003). He worked as teacher as...

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Łukasz Janowski

Łukasz Janowski

Łukasz Janowski holds a PhD in Earth Sciences. He has been an adjunct at the Maritime Institute, Gdynia Maritime University, since 2019 and has authored several articles and confer...

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Maarten Ruyssenaers

Maarten Ruyssenaers

Maarten Ruyssenaers, founder and CEO of Aquatic Drones and Aquatic Prediction, has worked on innovation through entrepreneurship since 2009. Maritime, ports and product development...

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Maaten Furlong

Maaten Furlong

Maaten Furlong joined NOC in 2005 as an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) development engineer and has been involved in all aspects of AUV development and operation. In 2013, he...

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Maggie Tran

Maggie Tran

Maggie Tran works as project manager at Geoscience Australia, involved in data processing and coordinating the public delivery of the seabed data acquired from the search for MH370...

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Marcelo Rodrigues

Marcelo Rodrigues

Marcelo Rodrigues is a geologist, has a PhD in Hydraulic Engineering, and worked at the Oceanographic Institute of University of São Paulo in Marine Geology research for 17...

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Marc Roche

Marc Roche

Marc Roche is a geologist and scientific advisor and, since 2005, Head of the Continental Shelf Service (COPCO) in the Belgian Federal Public Service Economy. He is in charge of ma...

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Marc Seidel

Marc Seidel

Marc Seidel is a geophysicist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel focusing on electric and electromagnetic methods. Within the BASTA project, he is working on the in...

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Maria-Emanuela Mihailov

Maria-Emanuela Mihailov

Maria-Emanuela Mihailov is a senior researcher in physical oceanography at the Maritime Hydrographic Directorate – Constanta, Romania in the Research and Innovation Laborator...

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Maria Geraga

Maria Geraga

Maria Geraga is professor of Archaeological Oceanography at the Geology department of the University of Patras and a member of the Laboratory of Marine Geology and Physical Oceanog...

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Marianne Molchan

Marianne Molchan

Marianne Molchan is president of Molchan Marine Sciences LLC, a consulting business dedicated to promoting a safe and secure marine environment. Specialties include ship and underw...

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Maria Papakonstantinou

Maria Papakonstantinou

Maria Papakonstantinou is a research associate at the Laboratory of Marine Geology and Physical Oceanography in the Geology department of the University of Patras. She holds an MSc...

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Maria Pleskach

Maria Pleskach

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

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Maria Simsky

Maria Simsky

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...

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Maria Teresa Reis

Maria Teresa Reis

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...

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Maria Vernet

Maria Vernet

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...

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Mario Hoppema

Mario Hoppema

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...

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Marita Luk

Marita Luk

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...

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Mark Gray

Mark Gray

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...

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Mark Pronk

Mark Pronk

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...

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Mark Smits

Mark Smits

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...

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Mark Warner

Mark Warner

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...

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Marta Sieczkiewicz

Marta Sieczkiewicz

Marta Sieczkiewicz is currently the president of the Research and Development Center at Gispro Technologies Sp. z o.o. and the director of the Department of Aerial Photogrammetry a...

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Martin Austin

Martin Austin

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...

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Martin Jakobsson

Martin Jakobsson

Martin Jakobsson is professor of Marine Geology and Geophysics at Stockholm University. His research interests include the marine cryosphere, with a current focus on northern Green...

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Martin Jones

Martin Jones

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...

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Martin Pfennigbauer

Martin Pfennigbauer

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...

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Mary Crowley

Mary Crowley

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...

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Mashkoor Malik

Mashkoor Malik

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...

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Massimo Caccia

Massimo Caccia

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...

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Mathias Jonas

Mathias Jonas

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...

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Mathieu Rondeau

Mathieu Rondeau

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

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Matthew Lee Crowley

Matthew Lee Crowley

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...

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