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Infrastructure:
Personnel:
The success of any organization will be dependent on the skills and talents of the
individuals that make it up. Thus the primary task in establishing the Joint Hydrographic
Center was to ensure that an appropriate team of people would be brought to the
University of New Hampshire. This has been accomplished, and with the arrival of Dr.
Christian de Moustier in January 2002, all positions outlined in the original Center
proposal have been filled. In 2003 Dr. James V. Gardner, a world-renowned marine
geologist and leader of the USGS Pacific Mapping Group, retired from the U.S.G.S. and
joined the Center as a research faculty member. In 2004 Nathan Paquin began a fulltime
position as our computer system manager and Jim Case joined our staff as a
database specialist. Following his retirement from NOAA, Dr. Lloyd Huff joined our
research faculty and David Monahan joined our faculty as Program Director for the
GEBCO Bathymetric Training Program (funded by the Nippon Foundation). In 2005,
additions to our staff included Brian Locke as a programmer/information technologist,
Briana Sullivan as a programmer and outreach specialist, Shachak Pe’eri as a postdoctoral
scholar focusing on LIDAR issues, and Will Fessenden as our assistant system
manager. New to the Center in 2006 is Glenn McGillicuddy in the capacity of a
research engineer, Dr. Tom Weber as a research faculty member specializing in
acoustics and Dr. Kurt Schwehr as a research scientist with our data visualization team.
In 2006 we also saw the re-classification of Drs. Barbara Kraft and Luciano Fonseca
from Research Scientists to Research Professors.
Faculty:
Lee Alexander is a Research Associate Professor actively involved in applied research,
development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) projects related to the implementation of
electronic chart-related technologies. Lee chairs or participates on a number of
international committees defining electronic chart standards, and serves as a technical
advisor to U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, U.S. Coast Guard, and Coast Survey-NOAA.
Brian Calder has a PhD in Computing and Electrical Engineering, completing his thesis
on Bayesian methods in sidescan sonar processing in 1997. Since then he has worked on
a number of signal processing problems, including real-time grain size analysis, seismic
processing, and wave-field modeling for shallow seismic applications. His research
interests include methods for error modeling, propagation and visualization, and adaptive
sonar backscatter modeling. His work has focused on developing methods for textural
analysis of seafloor sonar data, as well as exploring innovative approaches to target
detection and seafloor property extraction. Dr. Calder is an Associate Research Professor
with the Center and the Dept. of Electrical Engineering focusing on statistically robust
automated data cleaning approaches and tracing uncertainty in hydrographic data (the
CUBE algorithm) and new approaches for precise timing of measurements.
Luciano Fonseca received an undergraduate degree in University of Brasilia and his
Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire (he was the first PhD produced by the
Center). Luciano’s research is focused on developing tools for extracting quantitative
JHC Performance Report 7 30 January 2007