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Gallaudet Hardy

The Honorable Tim Kevin Hardy is President

Gallaudet, PhD, Rear of Global Ocean Design,

Admiral, U.S. Navy (ret) creating components and is the CEO of Ocean STL subsystems for unmanned

Consulting and host of The vehicles, following a career

American Blue Economy at Scripps Institution of

Podcast. He serves on Oceanography/UCSD. He several boards, is a fellow at holds patents in the ? eld of

The Explorer’s Club, and is ocean landers. He is on the a strategic advisor for a few academic advisory board of dozen startups, research Instituto Milenio de Oceano- institutions, and nonpro? ts grafía at the Universidad de in the ocean, weather, Concepción, Chile. Hardy climate, and space sectors. received an honorary Doc-

Gallaudet is a former acting tor of Science degree from

Undersecretary and Assistant Secretary of Commerce, acting and Shanghai Ocean University

Deputy Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric in 2018. He proposed making thick wall glass spheres to

Administration (NOAA), and Oceanographer of the Navy. He has a Nautilus Marine Service/Vitrovex (Germany) that opened the bachelor’s degree from the U.S. Naval Academy, and master and hadal depths to routine exploration. He writes for the Journal doctoral degrees from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. of Diving History and the MTR.

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