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Volume 59 • Number 7 8 Dr. James Delgado

NOAA’s Director of Maritime Heritage is candid on his career and the industry’s future.

By Kathy A. Smith

Research Vessel H38 to the Fore 14

In Brazil, a new reef biome under the

Amazon Plume.

By Claudio Paschoa

Remote Ops Alaska’s Hidden 19

Frontier

Global Ocean Center seeks to shed light on an elusive region.

By Chris Hartman

Ocean Obs 32 Send in the Drone 24

Aerial drones are the next leap in hydrography.

By Guy T. Noll A United Front 32

A project to unite existing ocean observation capacity takes off in

Europe.

By Kira Coley 40 ADCPs Down Under

ADCP-based monitoring system aids operations in Darwin Harbor.

By David Williams, 24 8

Craig Steinberg & Peter Spain

Construction 46 Station-Keeping in Ice

Recovering energy in increasingly hostile environs takes a steady hand.

By Andrew Safer 6 Editor’s Note 49 To the Test: Imagenex 881AL-GS 52 Tech File: DOE’s T5 Defender 53 People & Company News 56 New Products 60 Oceans 2016 Preview 40 57 64 Advertiser’s Index

Photo: Rockland Scienti? c (Credit: James Delgado Collection) Copyright: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Folke Mehrtens

Photo: Craig Steinberg Photo: ESRI

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