Marine Tech Talk

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].