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identification of seafloor properties from acoustic data. Before coming to New
Hampshire he was the NSERC Chair of Ocean Mapping at the University of New
Brunswick where he led a team that developed a worldwide reputation for innovative
approaches to ocean mapping problems.
Dave Monahan is the Program Director for the Nippon Foundation General Bathymetric
Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) training program in oceanic bathymetry. Prior to joining
CCOM, he served 33 years in the Canadian Hydrographic Service, working his way
down from Research Scientist to Director. During that time, he established the
bathymetric mapping program and mapped most Canadian waters, built the Fifth Edition
of GEBCO, led the development of LIDAR, developed and led the CHS Electronic Chart
production program, and was Canadian representative on a number of International
committees and boards.
Christian de Moustier is the newest addition to the senior faculty of the Joint
Hydrographic Center/Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping. His Professor position is
split between the Ocean Engineering and Electrical Engineering Departments. He is a
world-renowned expert in the theory and engineering aspects of advanced sonar systems
for ocean mapping. Christian comes to us from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
where he was responsible for the installation and operation of a number of multibeam and
other sonar systems. His research interests focus on development of innovative sonar
processing techniques and acoustic seafloor characterization.
Yuri Rzhanov, with a Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics, is an Associate Research
Professor in the Center and in the Dept. of Ocean Engineering. He has a very wide range
of computing skills and has built a number of applications for higher education that are
presently in use at universities around the world. Most importantly Dr. Rzhanov has been
developing models for sonar-seabed interaction for bathymetric and sidescan sonars
(including the Klein 2000/5000 systems) as well as software for automatic mosaicking of
video imagery and sidescan sonar data.
Colin Ware is the Director of the Center’s Data Visualization Research Lab and a
Professor in the Ocean Engineering and Computer Science Departments. Dr. Ware has a
background in human/computer interaction (HCI) and has been instrumental in
developing a number of innovative approaches to the interactive 3-D visualization of
large data sets. As a member of the UNB Ocean Mapping Group, Dr. Ware was the
developer of many of the algorithms that were incorporated into CARIS HIPS, the most
commonly used commercial hydrographic processing package.
Thomas Weber is an Assistant Research Professor in the Center and in Ocean
Engineering. He earned his PhD in Acoustics at Penn State University and has B.S. and
M.S. degrees in Ocean Engineering from the University of Rhode Island.
His areas of interest include (in no particular order): bubbles in the ocean and their affect
on sound propagation and scattering; bubble mediated air-sea gas exchange; underwater
optical tomography; the use of multibeam sonar for measurements of fish, bubbles, and
other scatterers in the water column; benthic habitat mapping, and; ocean sensor design.
JHC Performance Report 9 30 January 2007