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Batten to Head Marine

Energy Center

Belinda

Batten, head of the School of

Mechanical,

Industrial and

Manufacturing

Engineering at

Oregon State

University, will be the new director of the Northwest National Marine

Renewable Energy Center beginning in July.

Medeiros Joins

OceanWorks

OceanWorks welcomes Lisa

Medeiros to its team in the posi- tion of Business

Development

Manager. Acting as Business

Development Manager for the off- shore oil and gas industry. Medeiros joins the OceanWorks team from the

Offshore Division of OYO Geospace in Houston and brings over 15 years of offshore and marine industry expe- rience. www.oceanworks.com

Caswell Wins Humboldt

Research Award

Hal Caswell, a senior scientist in the

Biology Department at Woods Hole

Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), was awarded a 2010 Humboldt

Research Award by the Alexander von

Humboldt Foundation in Bonn,

Germany. The award is given "to internationally renowned scientists and scholars whose fundamental dis- coveries, new theories or insights have a significant impact on their own dis- cipline and who are expected to con- tinue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future," accord- ing to the foundation. Caswell is known for his work on population dynamics and demography. His recent research in this area has focused on developing models for studying threatened species, such as right whales and polar bears.

Waggoner Rejoins BMT

BMT Scientific Marine Services, a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, said that Mark

Waggoner was appointed as the new Service

Manager. He rejoins BMT after a five year absence, having worked previ- ously as a Field Instrumentation

Inspector/Field Engineer.

Bluefin Names III as East

Coast Representative

Bluefin Robotics announced a regional partnership with

International Industries, Inc. (III), provider of marine, hydrographic and survey equipment and software.

Headquartered in Annapolis,

Maryland, III will promote and sell

Bluefin products in New York, New

Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Ohio,

Indiana, Maryland, Tennessee,

Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia,

North Carolina, South Carolina,

Georgia, Illinois, Michigan,

Wisconsin and the District of

Columbia.

Rapp Hydema Delivers

Icelandic Trawler

Rapp Hydema has completed sea trials of electric winches for the F/V

Thorunn Sveinsdottir, an Icelandic fishing-trawler. The substantial winch suite supplied includes Split

Trawl, Sweep Line, Gilson, Cod-End,

Out-Haul, Auxiliary and other winches, net reels, and Anchor

Windlass. Rapp has been a long-time supplier worldwide of such devices — but this was a unique order. Rapp has some of its newest research-and- development achievements on dis- play. Perhaps most important, Rapp’s new liquid-cooled motor is aboard— patented, and then awarded—at last

May’s OTC in Houston.

MirTac Implement

Star for Seatec

MirTac has completed the imple- mentation of asset management sys- tem Star IPS at Seatec. MirTac sup- ports Seatec in its maintenance, safe- ty and audit operations for its diving and ROV projects. Seatec

Underwater Systems B.V. provides worldwide technical solutions and services to clients in various sectors such as On- and Offshore

Contractors, Dredging Industry,

Shipyards and Government

Departments. www.MirTAc.nl

Farsounder Upgrades

Software

FarSounder released SonaSoft ver- sion 2.3; an upgrade to the software which powers all FS-3 series sonars.

This upgrade includes significant processing, user interface, and display improvements. Upgrade features include: (Photo cour tesy Or egon State Univ .)