Per Espen Hagen has worked with AUV-related research and development for nearly 30 years. He was a member of the HUGIN AUV development team at the FFI from the early 1990s; from 19...

Peter Boon is business development manager Africa at Fugro. He focused on consolidating and (where possible) extending the market position of Fugro Survey in West Africa. He has pr...

Peter Elliman serves as director of product marketing at Liquid Robotics where he helps customers and partners understand the value and potential of the Wave Glider. Prior to joini...

Peter Schwarzberg was a nautical cartographer at the Danish Hydrographic Office. He has contributed with his charting expertise to IHO standardization work, and with his experience...

Hailing from the land downunder, Dr. Peter Spain completed his dissertation in Ocean Physics in 1988 at the Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, after which he wor...

Professor Peter Wadhams is head of Cambridge Polar Consultants Ltd., Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of Ocean Physics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretica...

Phil Johnston has a background working at sea as an offshore environmental consultant. He specialised in the effects of underwater noise and passive acoustic monitoring for marine...

Eng. CPTN P. Mouscardès, a former SHOM engineer endowed with considerable experience in hydrography and cartograhy, has been involved in SDB since 1987.

Pieter de Haas is an entrepreneur with a naval engineering background and international experience in ship building, business development and change management. Actively involved i...

Pim Kuus is a Hydrographic specialist and site engineering manager at Teledyne RESON UK Ltd, in Aberdeen. He holds an MScEng in Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering from the Universit...

Preston Martin is a marine scientist specialising unmanned survey systems for NewFields Sediment Management and Marine Sciences in Seattle, WA.

Qassim Abdullah, PhD, CP, PLS, is vice president and chief scientist at Woolpert. He has 40-plus years of industrial, research & development and academic experience in analytic...

Rachel Bobich, owner of RMB GEO, is an independent contractor in both the marine and geospatial data Industries. She specializes in multibeam acquisition and processing, satellite...

Rachel Medley is Chief of the Expedition and Exploration Division within NOAA’s Office of Ocean Exploration and Research (OER).  She previously worked for NOAA’s O...

Rafael Ponce graduated from the Mexican Naval Academy and served for 25 years in the Mexican Navy, on board destroyers and other vessels, and was CO of a hydrographic ship. Ponce r...

Ray Kostachuk’s research focuses on collaborative field experiments on sedimentary processes in rivers, estuaries and lakes. He is currently working on sand and gravel dunes...

Raymond – Chad – Moore is a Hydrographic Surveyor at TI Coastal Services.. He studied Geospatial Geoscience at the University North Carolina Wilmington and Geology and...

Rear Admiral of the ltalian Navy (ITN) retired, Giuseppe Angrisano was commissioned in 1957 and specialised in Hydrography in 1965. He commanded various ITN vessels including the o...

Richard Goosen is a senior hydrographer with Fugro and was the hydrographer in charge of the UKHO project in the Turks and Caicos and Belize. He joined Fugro in March 2018 after co...

Richard Goosen is a senior hydrographer with Fugro and was the hydrographer in charge of the UKHO project in the Turks and Caicos and Belize. He joined Fugro in March 2018 after co...

Master Chief Petty Officer Richard Guzmán Martínez is head of hydrographic surveys at the Centre for Oceanographic and Hydrographic Research Caribbean (CIOH) and was...

Richard Snijder graduated as a hydrographic surveyor from the Ocean Technology course (Cat A) at the Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz, where he was highly valued for his services...

Richard ‘Bungy’ Williams RN retired from the Royal Navy in 2011 after over 35 years service as a hydrographic surveyor and joined Kongsberg Maritime as the Business Dev...

Robert Dane is founder and CEO of OCIUS Holdings Limited. Robert invented and patented SolarSails in 1996. The prototype won the Advanced Technology Boat Race in Canberra in 1997....

Roberto Lucchi is product manager at Esri. 

Robert Ward was elected as one of the three co-Directors of the Secretariat of the International Hydrographic Organization, based in Monaco, in September 2007. Re-elected in 2012 f...

Mr. Ladner is the director of the Hydrographic Department of the Naval Oceanographic Office. He began his career performing oceanographic systems engineering. Notable achievements...

Dr. Ir. C.F. (Rolien) van der Mark studied Civil Engineering at Delft University of Technology. She did her PhD research at Twente University on river bed forms. She is an expert i...

Roman Schotten conducted the work on the cBathy algorithm as part of  a Civil Engineering degree at the Technical University in Dresden. The work was executed at the Dutch res...

Ron Macnab is a retired marine geophysicist who maintains an active interest in matters relating to the delimitation of the outer continental shelf according to the provisions of A...

Since coming ashore, Ross Macfarlane has embedded his training and safety experience into his work with future technologies. His current position as USV Policy and Public Affairs A...

Runar Olsen is product manager at Maritime Robotics.

Ryan Carlon is responsible for Liquid Robotics’ Global Commercial Environmental Assessment team that focuses on supporting the Science and Research community. He joined Liqui...

Samuel Deleu studied Marine Geology at Ghent University, and has experience both in the academic world and the hydrographic industry. Since 2013, he has worked as a Team & Proj...

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...

Sascha Flögel’s research interests are focused on cold-water coral ecosystems and their controlling long-term parameters. In order to acquire long-term data series of ph...

Satish Sankaran is a Product Manager at Esri. He represents Esri on various standards related Technical Committees and helps drive Esri’s Open Platform vision.

Sébastien Durand, vice chair and secretary of the S121 project team, works at for the Federal GeoSpatial Platform, Natural Resource Canada. His contribution to this standard...

Sébastien Ybert has over 15 years’ experience in both the industry and the research sectors. With an MSc in Mechanical Engineering, he has worked as a project manager...

Sergii Kornieiev - CEO/president of BaltRobotics. He was project manager of many large innovative international projects and has business administration experience in engineering c...

Sergio Stefanni’s research interests are molecular ecology, population genetics and the phylogeny of marine organisms. He is keen to apply molecular tools to study marine bio...

Shachak Pe’eri is a research assistant professor at the Center of Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM), University of New Hampshire (UNH). His research focus is in airborne remot...

Shannon Hoy is a 2012 graduate of the College of Charleston. She has worked with seafloor mapping at the University of Bristol, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Woods Hole Oceano...

Ms. Ní Fhlaithearta graduated in Earth Sciences (BSc. Hons), after which she gained an MSc. in Earth Systems Science. She worked as a researcher at the University of Utrecht...

Rear Adm. Shepard M. Smith is director of NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey and the US national representative to the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO). In 2017, he w...

Sonja Bhatia is a senior advisor to the Director General of the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS). In her substantive role, she is supervisor of the Tides, Currents and Water Lev...

Sr (Surveyor) Fariza Muhamad Faiz graduated from the University of Technology Mara (UiTM) in 2006 with an honours degree in Surveying Science and Geomatics, with a Vice Chancellor...