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John C. O’Malley [email protected] 2021 wind industry – promise to make 2022 and beyond boun- tiful for all who read these pages. This edition is focused squarely on ocean observation,

Associate Publisher & Editor and with that we have a full line-up exploring different aspects. Starting with the cover

Gregory R. Trauthwein story, we had the opportunity recently to spend some time via video with Tim Janssen, [email protected]

CEO of Sofar Ocean Technologies, to explore this tech start-up’s quest to harness the

Contributing Writers mountain of ocean data. While the ‘digitalization and data’ story line is hardly new, Sofar

Justin Manley, U.S.

Edward Lundquist, U.S.

has embarked on an epic quest to not only gather and distribute real-time data from the

Elaine Maslin, Aberdeen ocean cheaply and ef? ciently, but to help add real actionable value to various stakeholders

Tom Mulligan, Ireland in disparate industries. Our interview with Tim starts on page 46.

Regular contributor Elaine Maslin tackles the subsurface network topic, and in this

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Irina Vasilets regard she explores recent developments with Blue Ocean Seismic Services, which is [email protected] melding swarms of underwater vehicles with the collection of seismic data. Her story starts

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Last, but certainly not least, I thank the trio of author from the Paci? c Northwest Na- [email protected] tional Laboratory for their contribution starting on page 28 which looks at buoy-based

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