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NOAA Announces New Members of

The Hydrographic Services Review Panel

NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco recently appointed nine new mem- bers to the Hydrographic Services Review Panel, a federal advisory committee that gives NOAA independent advice for improving ocean and coastal naviga- tion products, information, data and services. “Optimizing the benefits of nav- igation services and products is a priority for the agency,” said Margaret Spring, chief of staff for NOAA and the agency’s representative to the Committee on the Marine Transportation System (CMTS). “We look forward to hearing per- spectives and receiving advice from our new committee members, who repre- sent a wide variety of maritime and coastal zone stakeholder interests.

New members of the panel are: • Dr. Lawson W. Brigham, University of Alaska Fairbanks,

Geography Program • Stephen Carmel, Maersk Line, Ltd. • Jeffrey Carothers, Fugro Consultants, Inc. • Dr. Michele Dionne, Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve • William Hanson, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, LLC • Dr. David A. Jay, Portland State University, Department of Civil &

Environmental Engineering • Joyce Miller, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research • Scott R. Perkins, Wilson & Company, Inc. • Susan Shingledecker, BoatUS Foundation

The new members join current members: • Edmund Welch, Passenger Vessel Association (panel chair) • Captain Sherri Hickman, Houston Pilots • Captain Thomas Jacobsen, Jacobsen Pilot Services, Inc. • Dr. Gary A. Jeffress, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi,

Geographic Information Science • Ramon Torres Morales, InterAmerican University, Puerto Rico • Matthew Wellslager, South Carolina Geodetic Survey (reappointed)

The new panel members attended a navigation services orientation briefing on March 24-25, in Silver Spring, Md. NOAA’s navigation services offices – the Office of Coast Survey, National Geodetic Survey, and the Center for

Operational Oceanographic Products and Services – presented some of the national challenges the panel will explore in the months and years ahead.

The Hydrographic Services Review Panel was established in 2003 as direct- ed by the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act of 2002. The panel func- tions in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act and advises the

NOAA administrator on matters related to NOAA’s hydrographic and naviga- tion services. build and operate the South-East

Asia Japan Cable (SJC) system offi- cially announced the start of the construction of the project that will link Brunei, China Mainland,

Hong Kong, Philippines, Japan, and Singapore, with options to extend to Indonesia and Thailand.

First announced in December 2009, the cable was initially planned to be 8,300 km in length, linking 5 countries/territories. SJC’s length is now 8,900 km which could extend up to 10,700 km, linking up to 8 countries/territories while supporting an initial design capacity of over 15 terabits per sec- ond.

DEA: Two SeaBat 7125-

SV2 to Support NOAA

Charting Requirements

David Evans and Associates (DEA) Marine Services Division purchased two of the new SeaBat 7125-SV2 systems. DEA’s clients include private industry, local and regional municipalities, port authorities, the U.S. Army Corps of

Engineers and the National

Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration (NOAA). DEA is a long-time customer of RESON and was an early adopter of the SeaBat 7125. The upgraded 7125-SV2 sys- tem provides dramatically improved performance.

SeaBat 7125