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November/December 2021

Volume 64 • Number 8

On the Cover

Tim Janssen, CEO, Sofar Ocean

Technologies. Photo courtesy Sofar

Ocean Technologies 8 USNS Walter Munk?

How to honor America’s greatest oceanographer: A call for the USNS Walter Munk.

By Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet,

Ph.D., U.S. Navy (retired) 22 Sourcing Seismic with Subsea Swarms

Swarm behavior of underwater vehicles coupled with collecting seismic data is the challenge; Blue Ocean Seismic Services is the taker.

By Elaine Maslin 28

Illustration by Mike Perkins, Paci? c Northwest National Laboratory) 28 Buoy-based Tech Aids Offshore Wind

Facilitating meteorological and oceanographic data collection 34 using validated methods to support U.S. offshore wind.

By Alicia M. Mahon, Lindsay M.

Sheridan, and Mark Severy -

Paci? c Northwest National Laboratory 34 Meet NOUS

An underwater ‘arti? cial mind.’

By George Papalambrou 46 Sofar’s Epic Quest

Tim Janssen, CEO, Sofar Ocean

Technologies, discusses the quest to collect, network and distribute vast amounts of ocean information and insight.

By Greg Trauthwein 4 Editor’s Note 46 6 Authors 10 Eye on the Navy 14 Pro? le: NOC 16 Pro? le: Irine Neba Mforsoh 18 In the Field: Arctic Navigation 42 Design: Noise Mitigation 52 Tech Files 57 New Products 60 Who’s News?

63 Classi? ed 64 Advertisers Index

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