Martin Ludvigsen is Professor and founder of the Applied Underwater Laboratory (AUR-Lab) at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway and has since been managing the lab. Since 2014 he has held a Professorship in Underwater Technology at the Department of Marine Technology, NTNU while also being a founder of BlueEye Robotics, a novel portable ROV startup. He has … Continued
Paulo Relvas is Professor at the University of Algarve, Portugal, and researcher of CCMAR (Centre of Marine Sciences – Univ. Algarve). He received a PhD in Physical Oceanography from the School of Ocean Sciences, University of Wales, UK, in 1999. His scientific domain is mesoscale oceanography. His main research areas are the Eastern Boundary Upwelling … Continued
João Teixeira is a Robotics Engineer in a robotics research laboratory (LSTS). He is a software developer (onboard software – control, guidance and navigation) and is also a part of AUV operational team. During the last three years he gained significant experience in field operations, mostly maritime environments (operating from ship) in cooperation with the … Continued
Kay Arne Skarpnes is a field engineer at the NTNU Applied Underwater Robotics Laboratory (AUR-Lab). He has his training in electrical engineering. Before coming to the AUR-Lab he has experience from offshore work class ROV operations with the company DOF Subsea. He has also worked setting up lab experiments in the hydrodynamic laboratories of SINTEF … Continued
Dr. Igor Belkin received PhD in Oceanography from Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow in 1987. He has been studying oceanic fronts, currents, and eddies in all five oceans from 72°N to 78°S, having spent five years at sea in 15 expeditions, including a six-month drift on the ice island “North Pole-22” across the Canada Basin. … Continued
António Sérgio Ferreira is a Ph.D. student and holds a Masters degree in Informatics and Computing Engineering from University of Porto. Since 2011 he has been part of the Underwater Systems and Technology Laboratory (LSTS) where his work focused on further developing the Neptus Command and Control Infrastructure for UAS as well as being a … Continued
Mary Lide Parker is a science writer, photographer, and videographer. She holds a B.A. in Photojournalism from the UNC School of Media and Journalism. Over the past six years, Mary Lide has worked with a wide variety of scientists, on both domestic and international projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of … Continued
Zara Mirmalek is a social scientist who conducts ethnographic research among work communities for the study of human-technology relationships and remote presence. She has conducted studies in the domains of space exploration and ocean exploration among scientists working with robots on Mars (NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers mission) and in the ocean (submarine volcanoes in the … Continued
Manuel Ribeiro is a Software Development Engineer with 3 years experience in software development, a AUV operator and a RPAS pilot with building, testing, operating and piloting experience. Ribeiro holds a Master’s degree in Informatics Engineering with a specialization in Software Engineering from Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. His Master’s thesis focused … Continued
Renato Mendes is currently a post-doctoral researcher as of a joint project between CIIMAR in University of Porto and CESAM in the University of Aveiro. His research interests focus mostly on coastal oceanography, using multi-platform data, such as observations, remote sensing, and numerical models. Recently, his studies have addressed the use of networked autonomous vehicle … Continued
