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
Trent Lukaczyk received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in June 2015. As part of the Aerospace Design Lab he contributed to several projects, including the design of NASA’s next-generation supersonic passenger jet, the development of an open-source aerodynamics simulation code called SU2, and the development of an open-source aircraft design code called SUAVE. In parallel … Continued
João Tasso de Figueiredo Borges de Sousa is a Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department from Porto University in Portugal. He holds a PhD and an MSc in Electrical Engineering, both awarded by the University of Porto. His research interests include autonomous underwater, surface and air vehicles, planning and execution control for networked … Continued
Dr. Alexander Chekalyuk is an optical scientist with a strong technological background, including development and oceanographic and environmental applications of the advanced analytical techniques and instrumentation (www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderchekalyuk). Since 1994, he has been working at the lead US research centers and universities and, such as Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, NASA Goddard Space … Continued
Francisco Lopez-Castejon is a postdoctoral research associate at the Technical University of Cartagena, Spain, where he focuses on the use of numerical models and underwater vehicles to address new challenges in oceanography. He has a degree in Oceanography from the University of Cadiz (Spain), a Masters in “Informatics and mathematics applied to science and engineering” … Continued
