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Authors & Contributors

Barbot

Boucher Pasho

Stephane Barbot is a software engineer in IFREMER’s Research and development lab.

Boucher

Jon Boucher is a marketing coordinator with a strong foundation in creative strategy, digital communication, and brand development within the industrial optics sector. With a B.S. in Digital Media and a broad creative background, he brings a design-forward, detail-driven approach to technical marketing. As Marketing Coordinator for Theia

Technologies, he manages and executes initiatives across email marketing, SEO, paid search, content development, and social media. Outside of work, Jon enjoys exploring the Paci? c Northwest outdoors. He’s based in SE Portland, where he enjoys exploring the Oregon Coast and biking local trails.

Gautier

Laurent Gautier is a mechatronics engineer in IFREMER’s Research and development lab. He is involved in the development of several benthic observatories, as well as in technological devs for scientists.

Strachan

Melle

Hunt partner at Boies Schiller Flexner, specialises in international arbitration, representing clients in complex multijurisdictional disputes, investor-state matters, fraud claims, and high-stakes global enforcement proceedings.

Laursen

Wendy Laursen has 20+ years of experience as a journalist. In that time, she has written news and features for a range of maritime, engineering and science publications. She has completed a Master of Science research degree in marine ecology as well as diplomas in journalism, communication and subediting.

Le Vourc’h

Damien Le Vourc’h is a mechanical designer in IFREMER’s Research and development lab.

Melle

Serge Melle joined Nokia in 2019, and currently leads the Optical Networks Product

Hunt Van Landingham

Marketing team for Nokia, having previously led North American sales enablement for IP-optical networks. Prior to joining Nokia, Serge worked at In? nera in product and solutions marketing, and business development. Serge is extensively published in the ? eld of optical networking and holds a BSc in physics from Concordia University,

Montréal, and an MASc in applied physics from the University of Toronto.

Pasho

David Pasho was the Project’s Chief Marine Geologist, helped maintain the deep ocean mining cover story and was the photographer on B Crew. After leaving Project Azorian he worked with the Canadian Law of the Sea delegation and negotiated several of the seabed mining provisions in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. He is currently writing a book on the deep seabed mining cover story for Project Azorian.

Strachan

David R. Strachan is a defense analyst and founder of Strikepod Systems, a research and strategic advisory focusing on autonomous undersea systems.

Laursen

Van Landingham

Andrea Van Landingham is partner and Vice President of Business Development for industrial optics leader Theia Technologies. Andrea has over 30 years of technical product marketing and sales experience in the U.S. and abroad. She believes that marketing and sales is the art of providing the right product to the right customer and is committed to making sure that Theia’s optics technologies are speci? ed for projects only when they are the best ? t for the application. A love of foreign languages, culture and history led her to pursue a career in international commerce, leading organizations to increase their global footprint. She is proud to have guided Theia’s optics into the imaging systems of clients on 6 continents, through distributors in 50 countries. Andrea travels widely for business and pleasure, and in her free time enjoys the great outdoors of her home state of Oregon, dancing the Lindy Hop and learning to play the mandolin.

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