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Editorial

Gregory R. Trauthwein

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Tel: (212) 477-6700; Fax: (212) 254-6271 earing the mid-point of any year I try to re? ect on the course of the current

FLORIDA year, and without a doubt 2016 is being shaped like no other by the price of 215 NW 3rd St., Boynton Beach, FL 33435

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Nindelible mark this pricing stumble has left on the subsea industry. While

John C. O’Malley the crash has posed serious challenges, there are always opportunities to be had, as we [email protected] found in our discussion with Hege Skryseth, President of the new Kongsberg Digital and also Kongsberg’s Chief Digital Of? cer. Skryseth is a software industry veteran, and after

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Gregory R. Trauthwein 30 months at the helm of Kongsberg’s digital empire, she sees ample opportunity across [email protected] the maritime and offshore sectors. While “Big Data” is the buzzword, “Smart Data” is the practical use, and our interview with Skryseth focuses on how companies large and small

Web Editor can cut costs dramatically by effectively using information that they likely already possess.

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Our U.K.-based contributor Kira Coley never fails to deliver interesting copy, and she

Contributing Writers ful? lled that task in this edition times two. “Fishackathon: Coding the Oceans” starts on

Kira Coley, United Kingdom page 14 and documents how the U.S. Department of State is tapping a pool of brilliant

Capt. Edward Lundquist, USN (Ret.)

Claudio Paschoa, Brazil young minds of coders to help solve some of the world’s most pressing ocean problems.

William Stoichevski, Norway

Her encore starts on page 30, this feature providing unique insight into the engineering

Production Manager effort to save the city of Venice with Intelligent Flood Defense.

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Finally, I would be remiss to not mention the cover story from Claudio Paschoa in Bra- zil. The cover picture, in my mind, says it all, as Brazil’s brand new hydrographic research

Production & Graphic Design vessel Vital de Oliveira was called into immediate duty to study the after effects of one of

Nicole Ventimiglia [email protected] the greatest environmental disasters in Brazil’s history. His story on the destruction of the

Doce River starts on page 20.

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