Society Of American Military Engineers
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- District Engineer James Ton Gets Philadelphia SAME Award Maritime Reporter, Apr 1981 #16
Col. James G. Ton, past president of the Philadelphia Post of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), received the SAME Board of Directors Service Award from Brig. Gen. William T. Meredith, USAF (ret.), regional vice president and a national director of SAME, and Dr. August Pistilli, current president of the Philadelphia Post of SAME, a professional engineering society comprised of military and civilian engineers who are dedicated to the defense of the United States.
In receiving the award, Colonel Ton was praised for his efforts in revitalizing the Philadelphia Post of SAME, for his ability in establishing effective communication with regional headquarters, and for his accomplishments in developing the awareness of the American public to the military posture of the nation. He is the District Engineer for the Army Corps of Engineers, responsible for federal/civil works projects in portions of New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware.
Dr. Pistilli is president of the American Dredging Company with headquarters in Camden, N.J. He is a veteran of both World War II and Korean War, and he served as a special consultant to the Defense Department in Vietnam during the TET offensive.
General Meredith is vice president of Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade, & Douglas, Inc.
He has been the project manager for construction management of the $260-milliondollar commuter rail connection in Center City, Philadelphia.
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- CALENDAR OF COMING EVENTS Maritime Reporter, Jan 9, 1982 #68
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- Insights: James Hannon USACE Chief, Operations and Regulatory Division Marine News, Mar 2013 #18
and oversight for activities within the USACE Lakes and Rivers and North Atlantic Regional Integration Teams. Hannon is a member of the Society of American Military Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers and was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in July 2010. After earning a bachelor’s
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 46NEW TECH OCEANOLOGY INTERNATIONAL 2024 MTR TV’s professional video team was out and about at Oi in London for nearly 20 executive interviews, including [clockwise, starting top left]: Cellula Robotics’ CEO Neil Manning; Rob Dewell, Integration Engineer, Saab UK who put the new eM1-7 electric manipulator
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 42NEW TECH OCEANOLOGY INTERNATIONAL 2024 Image courtesy Greg Trauthwein Image courtesy BIRNS MacArtney launches the new ultra-compact ø12.7 mm SubConn Nano connector. Innovative connectivity built on 45 years of ? eld-proven and market-trusted design. Image courtesy MacArtney Birns celebrated its 70th
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 35Figure 1 A self-righting vehicle design with buoyancy high and weight low, WHOI’s SeaBED AUV captures the attention of a pair of curious Antarctic penguins as it is deployed from the British research vessel James Clark Ross. Vehicle designers allowed for temperature reduction of battery capacity. Recharge
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 32FEATURE SEABED MINING by a sea? oor plume from its pilot collection system test. pact, nodule collection system that utilizes mechanical and The Metals Company recently signed a binding MoU with hydraulic technology. Paci? c Metals Corporation of Japan for a feasibility study on The company’s SMD
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 28FEATURE SEABED MINING Nodule Collectors THE BATTLE LINES HAVE BEEN DRAWN, AND THOSE ON THE “YES TO SEABED MINING” SIDE ARE GETTING READY TO GO. By Wendy Laursen Engineers prepare to launch the pilot collector vehicle to the sea? oor. Image courtesy of TMC 28 March/April 2024 MTR #3 (18-33).
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 27eruption catalyzed global scienti? c collaboration and em- phasized preexisting research on subma- rine volcanoes. “It highlighted a critical risk to society, exacerbated by a lack of knowledge, which could be bene? cial for understanding similar volcanoes, particularly along the Paci? c Ring of Fire
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 26FEATURE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION & SENSORS Kevin Mackay, TESMaP voyage leader and Center head of the South and West Paci? c Regional Centre of Seabed 2030. Kevin in the seismic lab at Greta Point looking at the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano 3D map completed with data from the TESMaP voyage
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 13nyone familiar with glider hardware options integrated for a broad Glider answers that need,” said Shea autonomous underwater ve- range of missions. Quinn, Slocum Glider Product Line hicles (AUVs) is certainly “As the use of Slocum Gliders grew, Manager at TWR. A familiar with the popular- so did
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 12TECH FEATURE TELEDYNE SLOCUM GLIDERS Teledyne Webb Research Engineers deploy the Slocum Sentinel Glider in Cape Cod Bay for testing. Teledyne Webb Research AS THE GLIDER COMMUNITY GROWS, SO DO GLIDERS By Shea Quinn, Slocum Glider Product Line Manager, Teledyne Marine 12 March/April 2024 MTR #3 (1-17).
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March 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 6MTR Editorial Advisors Gallaudet Hardy The Honorable Tim Gallaudet, Kevin Hardy is President PhD, Rear Admiral, U.S. of Global Ocean Design, Navy (ret) is the CEO of creating components and Ocean STL Consulting and subsystems for unmanned host of The American Blue vehicles, following a career
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 43“The industry is an ecosystem which includes owners, managers, mariners, shipyards, equipment makers, designers, research institutes and class societies: all of them are crucial,” – Eero Lehtovaara, Head of Regulatory & Public Affairs, ABB Marine & Ports All images courtesy ABB Marine and Ports provi
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 42,” says Lehtovaara. with IMO soon expected to follow. shipyards, equipment makers, designers, Today, ships are ? lled with standalone With all levels of society increas- research institutes and class societies: all proprietary technologies. Two systems op- ingly reliant on digital technology, the of them
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 40TECH FEATURE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS SITUATIONAL AWARENESS SYSTEM BATTLES COGNITIVE FATIGUE IN WATCHKEEPERS All images courtesy Groke Technologies Today’s evolving maritime security risks pose all-too-familiar threats to international shipping, and as just one of the many causes of fatigue, they add
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