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 Gracieux is deputy general counsel of the Exail group. Nicolas graduated in international business law and international relations from Paris Assas & La Sorbonne Univer...

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...

Norman Morrison, chief surveyor of DeepOcean AS, based in Haugesund, Norway has over 20 years of experience in the offshore subsea and hydrographic industry. He is a Chartered Hydr...

Odd Breivik worked in various positions at NHS from 1972 to 2009. He has a maritime background with the Merchant Marine. He was section manager for the Chart Production Section fro...

Øivind Midtgaard received an MSc in theoretical physics from the Norwegian University of Technology and Science, Trondheim, in 1990. From 1991 to 1996, he developed non-dest...

Ole Kristensen, software manager at EIVA A/S, is responsible for all EIVA’s software development activities and therefore very familiar with all major sonar producers and the...

Ole B. Kvamme worked in various positions at NHS from 1977 to 2013. He holds a dr. scient. in oceanography and a master’s degree in applied mathematics. He was production dir...

Ole Ørpen holds an MSc in Control Theory from The Norwegian Institute of Technology. He has worked with satellite positioning since 1978, initially at the Norwegian Defence...

Olivier Ayotte holds a college degree in surveying from college Ahuntsic (Québec, Canada) and completed  hydrographic survey training at CHS Ste-Fla...

Olivier Moisan is DriX USV operations manager at iXblue.

Cdr. Olumide Fadahunsi is a hydrographer with the Nigerian Navy Hydrographic Office. He earned a BSc from the Nigerian Defence Academy (1996) and an MSc from CCOM, UNH (2012). He h...

Panagiotis Agrafiotis holds a doctorate in Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens as well as an MSc in Geoinformatics and an MEng diploma in Surveying Enginee...

Panos Komninos, MSc, MICS is chartering manager at Glomar Offshore BV in the Netherlands. He is responsible for all commercial, business development and marketing activities for th...

Pascal van Unen completed his Bachelor’s in Ocean Technology (Cat A) at the Maritime Institute Willem Barentsz. His graduation thesis research was conducted at QPS BV. His in...

Patrick Keown is a physical scientist in NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey managing hydrographic survey projects. Mr. Keown graduated in Geography (BSc) from Western Kentucky Uni...

Patrick Rohan Larbalestier is a project surveyor at DeepOcean Management AS. He joined Acergy’s graduate scheme in 2008 as a hydrographic surveyor before moving to DeepOcean...

Patrick R. Toomey is a consultant in all matters to do with ice navigation. He provides training of ice navigators, is co-author of The Ice Navigation Manual. He lectures on P...

Paul Cooper is the vice president of CARIS USA and the current president of the Hydrographic Society of America. He is also vice president of the US National Section of the Pan Ame...

Paul R. Cooper retired from the US Naval Oceanographic Office as Director of the International Program after 35 years and then joined private industry before retiring in 2016. He i...

Paul Kennedy is the general manager of Fugro, Perth, and remains keenly interested in geophysics, particularly MBES systems. Paul is a graduate in Ocean Sciences, and post-graduate...

Paul Seaton is Fugro’s Director for Hydrography and Coastal Resilience in Asia Pacific. Focused on commercializing remote sensing innovations and harnessing geodata expertise...

Paul Takabiri is the project manager, Outer Island Implementation Unit, for KOITIIP under the Government of Kiribati Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. Paul is responsib...

Paweł Tysiąc specializes in the use of devices that record images in space. These methods allow for the remote acquisition of information about the measured object and the developm...

Pedro Menandro is PhD candidate (MBES multispectral backscatter data for seabed classification) in Oceanography at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Brazil). Currently...

Pedro Poseiro has a Master’s degree in Geomatics Engineering and Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering Science from the University of Coimbra. He is a PhD student at the Natio...

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 Holt is an engineer, archaeologist and survey consultant who has worked on archaeological projects in more than 25 countries. Peter designed and developed the Site Recorder s...

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...

Praveen Karoth is a veteran Indian naval hydrographic surveyor and a graduate in Hydrographic Surveying from The Institution of Surveyors, India. He was a lecturer in Hydrography i...

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