Marine Tech Talk

This episode begins a special four-part series on “Silbo”, Teledyne Webb Research’s autonomous underwater glider that recently made the first-ever circumnavigation of the Atlantic Ocean by an unmanned underwater vehicle.

In this episode we are joined by Ben Allsup, The Technical Support and Operations Manager for Teledyne Webb Research Slocum Glider. Ben discusses how Silbo got its name, the overall plan for the voyage, how the various ports were determined, and some of the very interesting challenges that the glider faced on its way from Cape Cod to Ireland.

For more information on Slocum Gliders, visit our website at www.teledynemarine.com/slocum-glider. There is a press release on the website that also details the journey as well as a recorded webinar on the journey that can be found on our LINK Webinar channel. For more information on how Slocum gliders are helping researchers and commercial customers explore and understand the ocean, you can google Slocum Gliders or search Twitter for posts from our many customers.

In this episode of Marine Tech Talk, we are joined by Brian Bradley, a faculty member of Cape Fear Community College's Marine Technology Program in Wilmington, North Carolina. Cape Fear Community College employs a range of equipment from Teledyne Marine in their program.

Brian teaches Hydrographic Surveying, Marine Instrumentation, and Marine Data Processing, and he also serves as an “at sea” instructor for three of the five oceanographic training cruises students are required to complete during their course of study.

Brian talks about the equipment and the program, and how the combination of the students’ classroom and on-water experience creates a much faster and easier transition to the workplace after graduation.

For more information on the programs offered at Cape Fear Community College, log onto the school's website at www.cfcc.edu. You can also learn more about the school on Twitter or Facebook.

On this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Dr. John Howe, a Senior Lecturer in Marine Geology at the Scottish Association of Marine Scientists (SAMS). His expertise is in fjord geomorphology and glaciomarine sedimentation. He is the operator of the UK Gavia AUV, Freya, and he has participated in more than 30 cruises to regions including the Arctic, Svalbard, Indian Ocean, Papua New Guinea and the Chilean Patagonia. 

John discusses several of his recent trips with the Gavia and the advantages that Autonomous Underwater Vehicles provide for researchers.

For more information about the work being done with Freya and the programs being offered at SAMs, follow along on Twitter or visit the official SAMs website.

On this episode of the podcast we speak with Dr. Joe O Callahan, a coastal oceanographer with the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), and Khush Jhugroo, a PhD candidate in Physical Oceanography at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. They discuss the work they are doing with NIWA in the shelf seas around New Zealand. The team has been examining river washes out to the bays, and understanding the deep eddies in greater Cook Strait using two Slocum autonomous gliders, Betty and Manaya.

For more information on the work being done with Slocum gliders in the shelf seas around New Zealand, follow the Twitter handles for NIWA and Dr. O'Callahan.

In the first episode of the New Year, we are joined by Dr. Aaron Fisk, a Professor at the University of Windsor and Science Director for the Real-time Aquatic Ecosystem Observation Network (RAEON), Katelynn Johnson, Research and Operations Director at RAEON and Cailin Burmaster, a Marine Technician for RAEON.  The team is using a Slocum Glider from Teledyne Webb Research to investigate the health of the Great Lakes.

For more information about the work being done in the Great Lakes by RAEON, check out the organization's Twitter handle or you can also follow along with the Fisk Lab.

In this final episode of the Marine Tech Talk, host Melissa Rossi and many of the seasons guests send their wishes from around the world to all of our listeners. If you have topics you’d like to hear us discuss on Marine Tech Talk, email your suggestions to us at [email protected]

Be safe, stay healthy, and help protect this great planet that we live on. We’ll see you all next year!

In this fall series of podcasts, we introduce some of the winners and general entrants from the 2020 Teledyne Marine Photo Contest. Teledyne’s annual Photo/ Data Contest concluded with over 80 qualified submissions that helped the company donate over $1200 to Save the Children as part of a charitable giving campaign. 

  In this final episode of the Teledyne Marine Photo Contest series, we chat with Jhon Mojica, a polar oceanographer from the Center for Global Sea Level Change at New York University in Abu Dhabi. Jhon submitted two images of a mooring deployment that incorporated a Benthos R2K Acoustic Release. Jhon’s research work focuses on ocean dynamics in polar regions and interactions with ice shelves, characterizing the effects of sea-level rise in coastal cities such as Abu Dhabi.

For more information on the Center for Global Sea Level Change, check out the center's Twitter handle, or follow Jhon Mojica.

In this fall series of podcasts, we introduce some of the winners and general entrants from the 2020 Teledyne Marine Photo Contest. Teledyne’s annual Photo/ Data Contest concluded with over 80 qualified submissions that helped the company donate over $1200 to Save the Children as part of a charitable giving campaign.

In this episode we speak with Maria Valladares Anton, an oceanography technician and glider pilot at the AquaPacífico Aquaculture Innovation Center at the Universidad Catholica de Norte in Angtofagasta, Chile. Maria submitted photos taken while deploying a Slocum glider in La Herradura Bay in Coquimbo, a coastal city in Northern Chile. Maria and an integrated team of scientists from other universities have been using the Slocum glider to study coastal upwellings and other oceanographic processes in the waters around Chile.

In this fall series of podcasts, we introduce some of the winners and general entrants from the 2020 Teledyne Marine Photo Contest. Teledyne’s annual Photo/ Data Contest concluded with over 80 qualified submissions that helped the company donate over $1200 to Save the Children as part of a charitable giving campaign. 

  In this episode we speak with Leah Elllis, a Habitat Biologist in the Instream Flow Program at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Leah was one of our contestants this year in our Teledyne Marine Photo Contest and the winner of one of our Honorable Mention photo awards. Leah’s photo was of her team out “in the elements” collecting data. The mission of their program is to acquire water rights in rivers and lakes for fish habitat protection.

To learn more about the work that the Alaska Department of Fish and Game are doing, check out their website or follow them on Facebook.

In this fall series of podcasts, we introduce some of the winners and general entrants from the 2020 Teledyne Marine Photo Contest. Teledyne’s annual Photo/ Data Contest concluded with over 80 qualified submissions that helped the company donate over $1200 to Save the Children as part of a charitable giving campaign.

In this episode we speak with Peter King, Facility Manager in the Autonomous Systems Maritime Laboratory at the University of Tasmania and one of our contestants this year in our Teledyne Marine Photo Contest. Tim submitted two great photos, one of his team and their AUV, Nupiri Muka, which was outfitted with two Teledyne RD Instruments DVLs, just after recovery and another pre-deployment with the Thwaites Glacier as a backdrop. Peter explains the photo, how the RD Instruments DVLs aided their research, and a bit about their work as part of the Antarctic Gateway Partnership.

To learn more about the University of Tasmania and the Antarctic Gateway, check out the project's Twitter and Facebook. You can also keep pace with Peter King and his latest adventures via his Twitter account.

In this fall series of podcasts, we introduce some of the winners and general entrants from the 2020 Teledyne Marine Photo Contest. Teledyne’s annual Photo/ Data Contest concluded with over 80 qualified submissions that helped the company donate over $1200 to Save the Children as part of a charitable giving campaign.

In this episode we speak with Tim Noyes, an earlier winner of our Academic Grant and now the winner of our Teamwork Makes the Dream Work award for this year’s Teledyne Marine Photo Contest. Tim explains the photo, a bit about his PhD work at BIOS and some exciting data they were able to capture during a recent deployment of their Teledyne RD Instruments ADCP.

To learn more about BIOS and the work that Tim and the team are doing, check out the group's Twitter and Instagram accounts. You can also follow Tim on Twitter as well.

In this fall series of podcasts, we introduce some of the winners and general entrants from the 2020 Teledyne Marine Photo Contest. Teledyne’s annual Photo/ Data Contest concluded with over 80 qualified submissions that helped the company donate over $1200 to Save the Children as part of a charitable giving campaign. 

In this episode we talk to Matt Nichols, President and owner of Survey Systems in Evergreen, Colorado. Survey Systems is a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business that does geodetic and hydrographic surveying work for a variety of customers. Matt has been working the hydrographic side of surveying for the past 15 years, and he previously joined host Melissa Rossi for Episode 16 of Marine Tech Talk.

To learn more about Survey Systems and the work Matt and his team are doing, check out the company's LinkedIn page or its YouTube account.

In this fall series of podcasts, we introduce some of the winners and general entrants from the 2020 Teledyne Marine Photo Contest. Teledyne’s annual Photo/ Data Contest concluded with over 80 qualified submissions that helped the company donate over $1200 to Save the Children as part of a charitable giving campaign.  

In this episode, Corina Liu from Data Surpass Technology Co in Taiwan, tells us about the survey of a weather observation tower in Taiwan that won her the Best Data award from our 2020 Photo Contest. The image was created with data from a Teledyne RESON 7125 Seabat sonar and PDS2000 processing software. 

In this fall series of podcasts, we introduce some of the winners and general entrants from the 2020 Teledyne Marine Photo Contest. Teledyne’s annual Photo/ Data Contest concluded with over 80 qualified submissions that helped the company donate over $1200 to Save the Children as part of a charitable giving campaign. 

In this episode we speak with Dr. Art Trembanis, a professor at the University of Delaware, who develops and utilizes advanced autonomous systems to map and explore oceans and lakes around the world, filling in blank spots on the map.

 Art’s contest submission was a photo of a Teledyne Gavia AUV, underwater in Bermuda, preparing to do some survey work around the mesophotic reefs in Bermuda. Art’s submission won him an Honorable Mention in this year’s photo contest.

For more information on the programs in the University of Delaware's College of Earth, Ocean and Environment, check out the department's handle on Twitter. You can also follow Dr. Trembanis on Twitter to learn more about his projects around the globe.

In this fall series of podcasts, we introduce some of the winners and general entrants from the 2020 Teledyne Marine Photo Contest. Teledyne’s annual Photo/ Data Contest concluded with over 80 qualified submissions that helped the company donate over $1200 to Save the Children as part of a charitable giving campaign.  

  In this episode we meet Fiona Elliott, a past oceanographic engineer at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand. Fiona’s contest submission was a photo of a Slocum glider deployment, investigating regions of freshwater influence in the Taranaki Bight in New Zealand. Fiona’s submission won her this year’s Zen Award.

For more information about the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) in New Zealand, make sure to follow the institute's Twitter and Facebook accounts. You can also learn more about our guest Fiona Elliot, now at the University of Bergen in Norway, on Twitter.

On this episode of Marine Tech Talk we meet Matt Nichols, president and owner of Survey Systems in Evergreen, Colorado. Survey Systems is a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business that does geodetic and hydrographic surveying work for a variety of customers.

Matt has been working the hydrographic side of surveying for the past 15 years and recently purchased an Oceanscience Z-Boat in early 2019. Some of the areas that Matt and his team need to survey are in remote areas, making the Z- Boat an ideal small survey platform for those shallow, remote, and high-altitude locations.

To learn more about Survey Systems and the work that Matt and his team are doing you can visit www.surveysystems.net, or visit their company pages on LinkedIn and YouTube.

In this summer series of podcasts, we introduce the winners of our Teledyne Marine Academic Grant for 2020. This grant offers universities and institutions the opportunity to utilize several of our flagship products free of charge for up to a six-month period to support their research programs. In this episode, we meet our final winner, Jonathan Wallen, a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Manoa in Hawaii. Jonathan’s research is in the area of autonomous robotics and dynamical systems. In his current project, Jonathan is using a Teledyne Reson Hydrophone to dock an AUV to a floating wave energy converter.

You can find out more about Jonathan’s work on AUV docking on his LinkedIn page and you can follow his efforts on the lab's official web site or Twitter account. You can also find more information about the Engineering program at the University of Hawaii on its official web site or follow along on Twitter.

In this summer series of podcasts, we introduce the winners of our Teledyne Marine Academic Grant for 2020. This grant offers universities and institutions the opportunity to utilize several of our flagship products free of charge for up to a six-month period to support their research programs. In this episode, we meet Tim Noyes, a PhD candidate at the University of Salford in Manchester, England and a research specialist at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences in Bermuda. Tim’s research focuses on determining spatial and temporal trends of mesophotic reef fish biodiversity. Using the awarded Sentinel V100 ADCP from RD Instruments and the Benthos R500 Acoustic Release system, Tim will be working to quantify the hydrodynamic variability within the mesophotic coral ecosystems and adjacent shallow-water reefs.

You can find out more about Tim’s research at BIOS on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. You can also follow Tim Noyes on Twitter and on Instagram.

In this summer series of podcasts, we introduce the winners of our Teledyne Marine Academic Grant for 2020. This grant offers universities and institutions the opportunity to utilize several of our flagship products free of charge for up to a six-month period to support their research programs. In this episode, we meet Samer Ahmed Mohamed, a teaching assistant at Ain Shams University in Cairo and head of the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle project. Using their awarded Pathfinder DVL from Teledyne RD Instruments, Samer and his team will fuse the DVL technology with other stereo vision systems and the dynamic model of the vehicle itself to create a computationally efficient model for AUV navigation. He and his team will participate virtually this year in RoboSub 2020.

In this summer series of podcasts, we introduce the winners of our Teledyne Marine Academic Grant for 2020. This grant offers universities and institutions the opportunity to utilize several of our flagship products free of charge for up to a six-month period to support their research programs.   In this episode we meet Maria Yesinia Torres, a doctoral student at CICIMAR-IPN, Interdisciplinary Center for Marine Science, located in La Paz, Mexico, and Dr. Armando Trasviña Castro, a senior researcher at CICESE Unidad La Paz. In Marine Tech Talk's first bilingual episode, Dr Trasviña Castro will be translating Maria Yesinia’s technical responses to English. Also joining us on the episode is Mario De la Cruz, a Regional Sales Manager from Teledyne Marine for South America. Mario will translate questions from our host, Melissa Rossi, to Spanish for Maria Yesinia to answer.

In this summer series of podcasts, we introduce the winners of our Teledyne Marine Academic Grant for 2020. This grant offers universities and institutions the opportunity to utilize several of our flagship products free of charge for up to a six-month period to support their research programs. In this episode we meet Boguslaw Cyganek, a professor in the department of Electronics at AGH University of Science and Technology in Poland. His research focus includes computer vision, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence, as well as development of programmable devices, acceleration of computations and embedded systems, with special focus on autonomous automotive and underwater systems. He is an author or a co-author of over a hundred of journal and conference papers, as well as books with the latest “Object Detection and Recognition in Digital Images: Theory and Practice” published by Wiley in 2013. Together with his students, Professor Cyganek will be using the awarded BlueView M900 MKII sonar to further his algorithm development for underwater object detection.

In this summer series of podcasts, we introduce you to the winners of our Teledyne Marine Academic Grant for 2020. This grant offers universities and institutions the opportunity to utilize several of our flagship products free of charge for up to a six-month period to support their research programs.

In this episode we meet Christian Armstrong. Christian is a PhD candidate and student researcher working with a team from the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS). Christian and the team are investigating the physical stability of the seabed around the UK continental shelf in the extremely energetic tidal flows of western Scotland.

Due to the operational challenges posed by the area’s hydrodynamics, few studies have been conducted there. However, these regions are now receiving research attention due to their value for renewable energy and the insights into turbulent flows that they can bring.

If you're interested in learning more about Christian's work or receiving updates on his team's research project this summer, follow him on Twitter.

On this episode of the Marine Tech Talk we meet Tobias Haswell, a Program Manager for Diakont. Tobias’ program provides robotic solutions for use inside of nuclear power plants. The program’s primary work involves using submersible ROVs to remove contamination from within reactor cavity pools as well as other pools within the nuclear power plants. Tobias has been involved with providing robotic solutions to the gas, oil, and nuclear industries for more than seven years.

To learn more about Diakont and the work that Tobias and his team are doing in nuclear power plants you can click here. You can also follow them on Twitter.

On this episode of Martine Tech Talk, host Melissa Rossi speaks with Timmy Gambin, a wreck diver, maritime archeologist, and Associate Professor of Maritime Archeology in the Department of Classics and Archeology at the University of Malta.

Through the use of state-of-the-art technologies, Professor Gambin has contributed to the discovery of more than 25 ancient shipwrecks in places such as Spain, Italy, Sicily, and Croatia. Timmy considers himself lucky to combine his passion for World War II history with archeology, especially in the growing field of underwater aviation archaeology.

On this episode of Marine Tech Talk, host Melissa Rossi is joined by Roy Forsyth from Collins Engineering. Roy is a Professional Engineer registered in 20 states and a National Society of Professional Surveyors (NSPS) Certified Hydrographer with over 19 years of experience in the industry.

He is an Association of Diving Contractors International (ADCI) certified commercial dive supervisor with bachelors and masters degrees in structural and geotechnical engineering.

Roy leads Collins Engineers’ acoustic imaging program by providing in-house training sessions and developing systems and processes for uniquely challenging projects that arise.  

For more information about Collins Engineering's work on the Duncan Bridge, please read Roy's post about the project on LinkedIn, and you can also watch the video fly-through of the full Duncan Bridge inspection here.

To learn more about Collins Engineering please visit their website, and you can also follow the company on Twitter and Instagram. 

In this episode of Marine Tech Talk we catch up with Michael Redmayne, the US Sales Manager for Teledyne Caris, a marine geospatial software company. Teledyne Caris has just released a new cloud-based platform that uses Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning algorithms to identify noise in 3D point clouds generated by acoustic sensor platforms. The end result is clean data in a fraction of the standard time without any manual “dot killing."

On this episode of Marine Tech Talk we hear from Dr. Alexander Forrest, an Associate Professor for the Environmental Robotics Laboratory in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of California, Davis.

Dr. Forrest’s group focuses on applying autonomous robotic systems, like AUVs and gliders, outfitted with seafloor mapping and water column measurement sensors to examine how localized topography influences water flow in lakes and nearshore coastal zones in the ocean.

On this episode of Marine Tech Talk we're speaking with Lou Nash, the president and founder of Measutronics Corporation. Measutronics is a marine positioning, guidance and underwater imaging company that specializes in marine construction solutions, and first discovered the benefits of Teledyne BlueView's BV5000 scanning sonar in 2015.

Lou leads the company in technology acquisition and systems integration, and he is also an adjunct professor teaching Marine Geomatics at the University of Florida.

How exactly do you make an accurate count of one of the most abundant animal species on the planet?

On the latest episode of the Marine Tech Talk podcast, host Melissa Rossi traveled to the Teledyne Marine Technology Workshop in San Diego in 2019 to speak with Dr. George Watters, the Director of NOAA Fisheries' Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division (AERD).

The AERD conducts research with the specific aim of providing scientific advice on the management of fisheries around Antarctica. Learn more about the fisheries management work conducted by NOAA in the Antarctic ecosystem here and follow all of NOAA Fisheries' latest work via Twitter. 

If you have any questions or comments about this show you can email host Melissa Rossi at [email protected]. 

What role can gliders play in saving the whales? Marine Tech Talk host Melissa Rossi welcomes onto the show Jude van der Meer, a Glider Technician with Dalhousie University in Halifax Nova Scotia to discuss how his work can make a difference in the world's oceans.

Jude serves on the Coastal Environmental Observation Technology and Research team (CEOTR) and works with Dalhousie's fleet of gliders that are used for whale monitoring, predominantly in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the Roseway Basin. 

You can learn more about the whale monitoring work Dalhousie is conducting with gliders, and check out the Whale Map Jude mentioned during this episode here.

If you have any questions or comments about Marine Tech Talk you can show you can email host Melissa Rossi at [email protected]. 

On the debut episode of Marine Tech Talk, host Melissa Rossi speaks with Captain Richard Riels, the founder and director of Sea Mammal Education Learning Technology Society (SMELTS).

Richard’s passion for marine mammals, and in particular the negative events associated with entanglement by fishing gear, have led to his innovative lineless lobster traps, which incorporates Teledyne Benthos Accoustic communication equipment.

Richard explains his technology, his vision and the hurdles that must be overcome in order to replace a 200-year-old method of fishing with his new ropeless technology that could benefit both marine mammals and the fishing industry.