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presence of marine mammals using both visual and passive acoustic methods. She was
an invited panel member for the US Marine Mammal Commission Workshop on Beaked
Whales (2004) and was a recipient of the US Department of the Navy Meritorious
Civilian Service Award in the field of multistatic sonar (1996). She received a Masters
of Arts degree in Physical Oceanography from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science,
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. She currently works at SPAWAR
Systems Center Pacific, San Diego, California. She has co-authored numerous papers
on multistatic active sonar research and cetacean distribution and habitat.
Mr Petar Djokovic
Petar Djokovic joined the Department of Defence in 2007 having spent a number of
years in ministerial, cabinet and community liaison positions in the Australian Capital
Territory Government. He spent some time working in the Air Power Development
Centre where he wrote historical articles on subjects such as the Royal Australian Air
Force’s (RAAF) role in the Indonesian Confrontation, the World War II era Northern
Territory Special Reconnaissance Unit and RAAF peacekeepers. He joined the SPC-A
as a Historical Officer in 2007 with a particular interest in naval aviation. He holds a
Bachelor of Commerce (banking and finance) degree from the University of Canberra
and has a lifelong interest in history and international relations.
Mr Andrew Forbes
Andrew Forbes is the Deputy Director (Research) at the SPC-A. He is a visiting senior
fellow at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, University
of Wollongong; a research fellow at the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies at Dalhousie
University; an associate of the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy, Defence Academy
of the United Kingdom; and a member of the International Institute for Strategic
Studies, London.
Squadron Leader Lewis Frederickson
Lewis Frederickson is a serving officer in the RAAF. He holds undergraduate and
post graduate degrees from Central Queensland University, and is a graduate of the
Australian Command and Staff Course. He has a keen interest in the study of Australian
history and commenced research into a PhD in this discipline through the University
of New South Wales in 2010.
Dr Gregory P Gilbert
Gregory Gilbert previously worked as a naval design engineer with the Department of
Defence (Navy) between 1985 and 1996 and was a Defence contractor until 2002. He
has broad research interests including military strategy and history, the archaeology
and anthropology of warfare, Egyptology, and international relations in the Middle East.