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50 MTR November/December 2010 people & companies

BioSonics, EchoView

Host Hydroacoustic

Workshops

Representatives from BioSonics and Echoview will offer a hydroa- coustic training opportunity in

January 2011 in Seattle. BioSonics’ next three-day hydroacoustic work- shop will occur January 24-26 immediately followed by a three-day

Echoview training workshop, featur- ing senior Echoview consultant Ian

Higginbottom, on January 27-29, 2011. Both companies recognize that time is money and also appreci- ate that proper training is critical to get the most from your acoustic data.

So the idea was born to provide a single, convenient location where hydroacoustic users could take advantage of a comprehensive train- ing program that includes theory, application, data collection and pro- cessing techniques. The BioSonics workshop will cover hydroacoustic theory, hands-on experience in data collection and processing tech- niques. Echoview's workshop will cover the essentials of acoustic data processing and also the advanced fea- tures of the software. Both BioSonics and Echoview are offering special tuition incentives and information is available at either company’s website. www.biosonicsinc.com www.echoview.com

Bluefin Wins Economic

Impact Award

Bluefin Robotics was named a

Gold Winner in MassEcon’s (The

Massachusetts Alliance for

Economic Development) Seventh

Annual Team Massachusetts

Economic Impact Awards, the award which recognizes companies from across the state that have made out- standing contributions to the

Massachusetts economy. Over the last year, Bluefin has renovated a 54,000 sq. ft. building in Quincy’s

Fore River Shipyard into a state-of- the-art facility for its business.

Bluefin will move its Cambridge headquarters and East Boston marine operations outfit to the new

South Street address in November.

On November 15, 2010, Bluefin moved its HQ and marine opera- tions facilities to a new location just outside Boston. The new address is:

Bluefin Robotics Corporation, 553

South Street, Quincy, Massachusetts 02169; T. +1 (617) 715-7000, F. +1 (617) 498-0067.

Fathoms Surveys for

Marine Renewable Sites

Fathoms recently undertook two comprehensive surveys for the

European Marine Renewable Energy

Test Center (EMEC) based in

Orkney. The results of these surveys have enabled EMEC Ltd. to extend its capabilities in the marine renew- ables sector, generating electricity from devices moored to the seabed.

The first survey covered two specific areas; one in Scapa Flow and the other further to the north in

Shapinsay Sound. The former will be used for testing wave energy devices and the latter is more suited to tidal stream devices. Both areas required detailed and precise surveying so that designers and engineers responsible for mooring the devices could fully understand the seabed morphology and thus come up with the best mooring solutions.

Although some data was available before these surveys were undertak-

Teledyne Odom

Hydrographic enlists

SONARTRONIC

Teledyne Odom Hydrographic retained the consulting services of

Henning Pedersen of

SONARTRONIC, located in

Aarhus, Denmark. Pedersen will be assisting with the company’s market development activities throughout Europe and the

Middle East.

Before establishing

SONARTRONIC, Pedersen served as the Sales Manager of

RESON; the Sales Director and part-owner of MARIMATECH and previous to that the Project

Manager and later Sales Manager of NAVITRONIC. Collectively,

Pedersen has more than 25 years of experience within the hydrograph- ic industry.