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50 MTR January/February 2011 people & companies

Bolton Joins OMM

Offshore Marine Management (OMM) strengthened its position in operation and maintenance with the recruitment of industry specialist,

Stephen Bolton to the newly created position of Director of Operations and Maintenance.

Scripps Scientist

Honored

Scripps Institution of

Oceanography at UC San Diego marine ecologist Ed Parnell has been honored with the 2010 Roger

Revelle Award from the San Diego

Oceans Foundation. The award, named after former Scripps director, climate science pioneer and UC San

Diego founder Roger Revelle, annu- ally recognizes a San Diegan who "has made a significant contribution to man's ability to coexist with the marine environment."

YSI Promotes Ellison

Rob Ellison has been promoted to

Director of Business Development for YSI Inc. He will work with the company’s R&D teams to commer- cialize new technologies for the water quality market. Rob has served as the Marketing & Business

Development Manager of YSI’s

Environmental Monitoring Systems business since 2005.

Cosalt Appoints New

Norwegian Head

Cosalt Offshore, a provider of lift- ing, tooling and marine services to the oil and gas industry, appointed

Runar Blakstad as the new Managing

Director of its Norway division.

Blakstad was most recently

Managing Director of Sir Fish in

Stavanger where he has restructured the business and turned it around into a profitable venture. He takes over the role at Cosalt Offshore in

Norway from Jack Braten who estab- lished the original Myhre Maritime business and saw it through the tran- sition to Cosalt ownership.

InterMoor Names Landry

Subsea Ops Manager

InterMoor named Ross

Landry Subsea

Operations

Manager.

Working out of

InterMoor’s

Lafayette, La., subsea facility,

Landry will manage all activities related to subsea operations includ- ing but not limited to abrasive cut- ting services, heave compensation services and all facility-based proj- ects. Landry has served as Technical

Manager and Assistant Operations

Manager for InterMoor’s subsea facility. He has been responsible for recruiting offshore personnel, imple- menting a preventative maintenance program to minimize operational downtime and for supervising the design modification of offshore equipment to improve reliability.

Capt. Score Takes

Command

NOAA Capt. David A. Score assumed command of the agency’s

Marine Operations Center-Atlantic in Norfolk, Va., which manages the day-to-day operations of the nine research and survey ships in NOAA’s

Marport Appoints Dr. Pinto

Chief Sonar Scientist

Marport Deep

Sea

Technologies appointed Dr.

Marc Pinto as

Chief Sonar

Scientist. He will be employed full- time with Marport’s French sub- sidiary located in Lorient, France.

Dr. Pinto graduated from the Ecole

Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees,

Paris in 1983. He received his

Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from the University of Paris in 1991.

From 1985 to 1993 he worked as a research engineer for Thomson-

CSF, specializing in the application of numerical techniques to mag- netic recording. In 1993 he joined

Thomson-Sintra (now Thales

Underwater Systems) as Head of the Signal Processing Group, spe- cializing in research of sonars for maritime mine countermeasures and airborne anti-submarine war- fare. In 1997 he joined the NATO

Undersea Research Center, La

Spezia, Italy where he served as

Head of the Mine

Countermeasures Group and con- ducted research into Synthetic

Aperture Sonar systems for hunt- ing maritime mines. In 2004 he was appointed Head of the

Expeditionary Mine

Countermeasures and Port

Protection Department where he oversaw research for AUV-based minehunting, maritime mine countermeasures and harbor defense.