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 is a hydrographer and the proprietor of RMB GEO, a marine and data science firm. She specializes in hydrospatial mapping techniques such as topobathy Lidar and satell...

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...

Raja Kandukuri is data engineer and co-founder of planblue. He is skilled in data analysis, engineering, manufacturing and software development. He holds a Master’s degree in...

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...

Rochelle Wigley has a PhD in Geology from the University of Cape Town and is project director for the Nippon Foundation/GEBCO Training Program in Ocean Mapping at the Center for Co...

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...

Ruairidh MacKenzie is an IHCS Certified Level 2 hydrographic surveyor and hydrographic survey manager at IIC Technologies. He has been a surveyor for six years, with most of his ca...

Runar Olsen is product manager at Maritime Robotics.

Salman Bashit, an urban planning graduate from Khulna University in Bangladesh, is currently furthering his education in Geoscience at Mississippi State University. His academic an...

Sam Harper is the IHO assistant director for Survey and Operations. He was previously head of Hydrographic Programmes at the UKHO and has worked in international development and po...

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...

Sarah Jones Couture is the PR and communication officer at the IHO, raising global awareness about their work. She previously worked as a communication consultant at the IAEA Marin...

Sara Pont graduated in biological sciences from the University of Barcelona. Her professional career has always been linked to the conservation of natural heritage. She first worke...

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...

Srećko Kajić is reporting lead and GIS engineer at Hidrocibalae, with a Master’s in Geography from the University of Zagreb. His professional interests include GIS, cartograp...

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...

Sr (Surveyor) Saiful Nizam Mustafa, is a member of the Royal Institution of Surveyors Malaysia (RISM), a professional member of The Institution of Geospatial and Remote Sensing Mal...

Dr. Stefan Gladisch earned his PhD in Computer Graphics from University of Rostock in 2016. Since then he has been working as a scientist at the department of Maritime Graphics at...

Stéphane Bertin is a research fellow in coastal geosciences at the University of Brest, with a background in environmental fluid mechanics and quantitative geomorphology. Hi...

Stephen Wilkins - A qualified merchant mariner and professional sailor, Stephen Wilkins has been conducting expeditions to the polar regions of the south and Antarctica since...

Steve Gibb is group public relations manager at The Balmoral Subsea Test Centre, part of Balmoral Group Holdings Ltd, a privately-owned company based in Aberdeen, Scotland. Employi...