OUR SPEAKERS

Joseph Pica
Director, Office of Observations, National Weather Service
Helmut H. Portmann
Director
National Data Buoy Center
Dr. William Burnett
Deputy Commander and Technical Director to the Commander Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command / Task Group
Val Swail
Climate Research Division | Environment and Climate Change Canada
Dr. Mark Orzech
Oceanographer
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center (NRLSSC)
Dr. David Wang
Research Oceanographer
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center (NRLSSC)
Dr. Richard Crout
Chief, Ocean Sciences Branch,
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center (NRLSSC)
Col. C. Reid Nichols, USMC-ret
Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA)
Stephen Naeth
Design Engineer, AXYS Technologies Inc.
Ahmed Cherifi
Head of Technical Affairs and Equipment Division’s, National Direction of Meteorology
Morocco
Rex Hervey
Meteorologist, NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center (NDBC)
Dr. Chung-Chu Teng
Engineering Division Chief
Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services, NOAA
Rodney Riley
Engineer at NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center (NDBC)
Mark Bushnell
President, CoastalObsTechServices LLC
Dr. Robert Jensen
Research Hydraulic Engineer
US Army Corps of Engineers, Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory
Rob Smith
Managing Director, Fugro Global Environmental and Ocean Sciences Inc
Tobias Ferreira
Oceanographer,
Master in Ocean Engineering
Lieutenant of Brazilian Navy
Dr. Kelly Lucas
Chief Scientific Officer
Mississippi Department of Marine Resources
Dr. Jeff Hanson
President and Owner
WaveForce Technologies
Yu Jianqing
National Center of Ocean Standards and Metrology, China
Bian Mingqiu
National Center of Ocean Standards and Metrology, China
Etienne Charpentier
JCOMM Secretariat
Dr. Thomas Gross
Programme Specialist GOOS, Web Services
Champika Gallage
JCOMMOPS Technical Coordinator for DBCP and OceanSITES
Capt. Joe Swaykos (USN-ret)
Data Management and Communications Branch Chief, NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center (NDBC)
Richard Bouchard
Physical Scientist, NOAA’s National Data Buoy Center (NDBC)
Gustavo Copes
National Meteorological Service, Argentina
Dr. Stephan Howden
Associate Professor
Department of Marine Science
The University of Southern Mississippi
Saul Canjura Jimenez
Specialist engineer of the Ministry of Natural Environment and Natural Resources (MARN) in El Salvador
Tony de Paolo
Senior Development Engineer, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Mr. Kenneth E. Steele
NDBC (retired) Wave Measurements Lead
Kate Edwards
Manager, Advanced Technology Group at Ocean Power Technologies
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