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...

Omkar Ghatage works at the Regional Remote Sensing Centre – West, Jodhpur, India. His primary interest is using advanced earth observation (EO) systems for novel geoscie...

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 remote sensing technologies, including bathymetric Lidar. His work focuses on developing analytical methods to enhance environmental and human safety th...

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.

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...

Rebecca Cusack (BA, MA, MCOMM, GAICD), Australian Hydrographic Office (AHO), assistant director international relations & AHSCP secretary. Rebecca has over 20 years of experien...

Riccardo Arosio is a marine geologist and postdoctoral researcher at University College Cork in the Marine Geosciences Research Group. Riccardo’s research focuses on the use...

Richard Dowdeswell is chief commercial officer of GeoAcoustics Ltd. He joined the company in 2017 and led the buyout from Kongsberg in 2020. Prior to GeoAcoustics, he spent ten yea...

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....