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Graham HawkesGraham Hawkes, has designed and built over sixty manned submersibles and over 350 Remote Operated Vehicles (ROVs).
Hawkes is known for his forward-thinking solutions and his innovative use of materials and systems. His underwater vehicles include the innovative Atmospheric Diving Suits (ADS) and ROVs, which dominated the offshore oil industry segment in the 1970s; the Deep Rover series for science and exploration, most recently used by filmmaker, James Cameron in the IMAX film, “Aliens of the Deep;” the Deep Flight series of submersibles; and the design/build of the experimental protoype DeepFlight Challenger, the only full ocean depth manned vehicle.
He is recognized world-wide as a pioneer in innovating state of the art solutions for ocean access.
Dr. Gregory Offer CSci (Imperial College London – CoI): is an EPSRC career acceleration fellow at Imperial College London working on electrochemical energy storage and conversion devices for vehicles. Greg has a PhD in electrochemistry and after moving to engineering over 5 years ago has focussed on pulling through advances in fundamental science to real world systems and applications. Greg has 11 journal papers, 2 patents and contributed to 3 government reports.
He is also the co-founder of Imperial Racing Green, which involves over 100 undergraduates a year to design and build zero emission racing cars, based upon fuel cell, electric and hybrid technology.
Greg is the CoI on the FUTURE vehicles project, a £3.5M consortium funded under the Low Carbon Vehicle Integrated Delivery Programme to develop the fundamental understanding of technologies for ultra reduced emission vehicles. Greg has also previously spent 10 months on secondment via an EPSRC/ESRC policy fellowship to the Department for Energy & Climate Change, where he helped write the 2050 pathways report, and helped conduct the analysis of how the UK could meet its GHG emissions targets for 2050, and is therefore acutely aware of how important reducing emissions from international shipping is to meeting the UK’s targets.
James BellinghamJames Bellingham graduated with his Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 1988. He is currently the Chief Technologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Monterey, California. Bellingham develops Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVS), which are underwater robots that navigate without requiring the input of an operator. These un-manned vehicles are used to observe the ocean interior. In the process of developing these vehicles, Bellingham has spent considerable time at sea, leading over 20 AUV expeditions in locations such as the Antarctic, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, South Pacific, and the Arctic. His latest vehicle, the Tethys Long-Range AUV, is designed to follow and observe aggregations of plankton over periods of many weeks to provide insights to the dynamics of marine microbial communities. Bellingham is a co-founder of Bluefin Robotics Corporation, a leading manufacturer of AUVs for the military, commercial, and scientific markets. He serves on the Strategic Advisory Group of Battelle Memorial Corporation, which purchased Bluefin Robotics in 2005. As part of his testimony to the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy in 2002, Bellingham prepared a white paper on the next generation of ocean observing systems entitled, New Windows in the Ocean. At the 2011 URI Honors Colloquium, Bellingham will discuss the current state of ocean robotics and the future of such systems in a panel with Joseph Cione of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration and Chris Roman of the University of Rhode Island. The focus of the panel will be the physics of the air-sea interface.
Tony Cass is currently Professor of Chemical Biology, Deputy Director and Research Director (Bionanotechnology) in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He trained originally as a chemist with degrees from the Universities of York and Oxford. His research interests are in the field of analytical biotechnology and particularly in the use of protein engineering and design to produce new reagents for biosensors and bioanalysis. He pioneered the use of synthetic electron transfer mediators for enzyme biosensors and his work in this area led to the development of the first electronic blood glucose measuring system, commercialised by MediSense Inc. (now part of Abbott Diagnostics), and the award of the Royal Society's Mullard Medal (along with Professor HAO Hill FRS and Dr MJ Green). Most of his current research is focussed on using engineered proteins and peptides in a micro-and nano-structured materials and devices for both clinical and high throughput analysis. In addition to his academic research, he is a member of several Research Council Committees, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Oxford Biosensors and has acted as a consultant to several European and US biotechnology companies. He is a member of the advisory board of International Pharmaceutical Training Ltd. He has published over 80 papers and edited 3 books and is on the editorial boards of Biosensors and Bioelectronics and IEE Proceedings Nanobiotechnology. In addition he is a Visiting Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Richard CamilliDr. Richard Camilli is an Associate Scientist in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s (WHOI’s) Department of Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering.
He received his PhD degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT’s) School of Engineering and now serves as a faculty member for the MIT-WHOI joint Graduate Program in Oceanography. His research interests are principally in the areas of marine robotics and instrumentation development, with special emphasis on embedded intelligence and in-situ environmental sensing.
He has participated in over 40 major oceanographic research cruises and offshore oil spill assessment operations, serving as Chief Scientist/Chief of Operations on over a dozen. Dr. Camilli is the recipient of a Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers award for his research in autonomous underwater vehicle design, a National Science Foundation Career Award, and currently serves as a member of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board for Oil Spill Research.
• Chemistry studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (1995-2000) • Master thesis in Atmospheric Chemistry (2000), after visits at UC Berkeley and the EU Joint Research Center in Ispra, Italy • PhD studies at the Max-Planck Institute for Radiation Chemistry (now Bioinorganic Chemistry), working on heterogeneous charge transfer processes of proteins on metal surfaces (2000-2003) • Visits to the Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica in Oeiras, Portugal, and Prof. Jens Ulstrup’s group at the Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby (2001, 2002) • PhD degree from the Technical University of Berlin (2003) • Research Assistant Professor with Prof. Jens Ulstrup at the Technical University of Denmark (2003-2006) • Appointed to a lecturer position at Imperial College London, Chemistry Department (2006-current)
Dr Mark Miodownik received his BA in Materials Science (1st Class) from St Catherine's College, Oxford in 1992, and his Ph.D in turbine jet engine alloys from Oxford University in 1996. He is Head of the Materials Research Group at King's and his main research area is self-assembling materials on which he has published 1 book, more than 50 research papers and 3 book chapters. In 2003 he was awarded a NESTA fellowship to create a Materials Library as interaction space for designers, architects and artists to collaborate with materials scientists (www.materialslibrary.org.uk). Since 2005 he has been organising regular seminars and workshops at the Tate Modern on the influence of new materials on the arts which resulted in a popular podcast. He co-designed AfterImage, an installation in the Hayward Gallery which was part of the Dan Flavin retrospective showing from Jan – April 2006. He writes a regular column on the senso-aesthetics of materials. Mark is a broadcaster and writer on science and engineering issues, and believes passionately that to engineer is human. He regularly gives popular talks on engineering and physics to tv, radio, festival, and school audiences and this year will be giving the 2010 Ri Christmas Lectures which will be broadcast on BBC Four. Mark was recently included in the The Times list of the top 100 most influential people in UK science (coming in at no. 89). More information about these activities here. He is a member of the Cheltenham Science Festival Advisory Group and a Board member of Ignite.
Andy BowenAndy Bowen has been involved in the rapidly changing world of remotely operated vehicles for over 25 years. Trained as a mechanical engineer, he joined the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1985 as a member of Dr. Robert Ballard’s team at the Deep Submergence Laboratory where he became involved in the design of Jason Junior. After a successful survey of the Titanic by Alvin and Jason Jr., work began on the design of the Jason vehicle. Mr. Bowen assumed responsibility for the Argo/Jason development program in 1988. As the only remotely operated vehicle design specifically for scientific operations to 6000 meters depth, Jason has now become part of the National Deep Submergence Facility (NDSF) maintained and operated by WHOI. As Director of the NDSF, Mr. Bowen’s present challenge is to facilitate wider acceptance and understanding by the scientific community of robotic systems as research tools while advancing the human occupied submersible program ALVIN. Mr. Bowen has supervised a wide range of development projects include design of Jason II, a new scientific ROV with enhanced capabilities. His most recent program has been the successful development of the hybrid robotic vehicle Nereus that explored the Challenger Deep in June of 2009. He is currently the Technical Director of the Alvin submersible upgrade program. Adaptation of novel tethering and through-water communications to adaptive autonomous systems with Polar operations is of particular present interest.
In 1984, shortly after completing a PhD in Digital Communications Winfield resigned his lectureship at the University of Hull, to found a company on the then newly established Hull University Science Park. Created to commercialise patented research in high performance computer architectures the company also found itself delivering contract research and development in software for safety-critical communication systems, primarily for the public safety sector. Winfield went on to establish the company, APD Communications Ltd, as one of the key UK providers of software for mobile radio data systems, notably leading contracts to design a fault-tolerant radio communications infrastructure for the Channel Tunnel. He left the company in 1992 to take up appointment as Associate Dean (Research) and Hewlett-Packard Professor of Electronic Engineering at the University of the West of England, Bristol, but remains a non-executive director of APD. Winfield is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, the IEEE and the Institute of Directors. Moving into the field of mobile robotics he co-founded, with Chris Melhuish and Owen Holland, the Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) Laboratory at the University of the West of England in 1993, recently re-launched as the joint UWE, University of Bristol Bristol Robotics Laboratory. Within the IAS laboratory Winfield's projects have included intelligent control, in particular stable adaptive neural control, and more recently provably-stable behaviour based control. With Owen Holland and Ian Horsfield Winfield designed the IAS lab LinuxBots, contributing the embedded Linux based control and wireless communications architecture. Winfield's current work is focussed on the engineering and scientific applications of Swarm Intelligence. His work on Swarm Robotics is concerned with algorithms, analysis, modelling and specification for potential high integrity applications. At the same time Winfield is deeply interested in Swarm Robotics as a constructionist metaphor for the study of emergence, self-organisation, culture and intelligence. Winfield is strongly committed to the widest possible dissemination of research and ideas in science, engineering and technology. Working with UWE's Science Communication Unit he is engaged in a number of public engagement projects centred upon robotics, leading the three year EPSRC programme Walking with Robots to take UK-wide intelligent robotics research into the public arena and as an EPSRC Senior Media Fellow. Winfield has published over 120 works and has lectured widely on mobile robotics and other topics, presenting to both academic and public audiences.
David BrookesOver 45 years Industry Experience. Started as an Undergraduate Apprentice at Esso Uk in 1966 at Fawley Refinery, Rotating Eqiuipment vendor - Ingersoll Rand and Selection Trust mining company in UK, Zambia, Peru and Iraq. Joined BP in 1980 and spent time on subsea and slurry pipelines systems followed by becoming Manager of the Marine Systems Group. Project Engineering Manager for the BP Chemicals Indonesian Polyethylene Project based in Japan 89 -91, and then a period as BPX Global Subsea Consultant. 1994 to 98 Technical Manager/ Subsea Project Manager for the West of Shetland deepwater Foinaven Development. After leading a team of pipeline, multiphase and subsea engineers as part of BPX’s shared technical resource he became BP Amoco’s Team Leader for Deepwater Developments in the Upstream Technology Group in 1999. In 2001 became a Senior Advisor in BP EPTG and moved to managing the overall BP Deepwater Facilities Technology Development Programme. 2006 Moved to BP UpStream Engineering Leadership as BP’s Chief Engineer for Subsea and Floating Systems and is currently Senior Advisor. BSc Mech Eng, Chartered Engineer, FIMechE, FIMarEst, SPE, Past President and Hon Fellow of SUT, Registered Subsea Engineer, Past Chairman of DOT, Member of the Organising Committee for SUT International Conferences and MCE Conference. David prepared over 30 papers and presentations including 3 papers to OTC Conferences. He has also registered 3 patents. David received SUT David Partridge Award, Subsea UK 2009 Engineer of Year Award.
Tony HeyAs corporate vice president in Microsoft Research, Tony Hey is responsible for worldwide university research collaborations with Microsoft researchers. Hey is also responsible for the multidisciplinary eScience Research Group within Microsoft Research. Prior to joining Microsoft, Hey served as director of the U.K.'s e-Science Initiative, managing the government's efforts to build a new scientific infrastructure for collaborative, multidisciplinary, data-intensive research projects. Before leading this initiative, Hey led a research group in the area of parallel computing and was Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science, and Dean of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Southampton. Hey is a fellow of the U.K.'s Royal Academy of Engineering and was awarded a CBE for services to science in 2005. He is also a fellow of the British Computer Society, the Institute of Engineering and Technology, the Institute of Physics, and the U.S. American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Tony Hey has written books on particle physics and computing and has a passionate interest in communicating the excitement of science and technology to young people. He has co-authored "popular" books on quantum mechanics and on relativity.
John Delaney is Professor of Oceanography and holds the Jerome M. Paros Endowed Chair in Sensor Networks at the University of Washington. Since 1997, he has directed development of the regional cabled ocean observatory in the northeast Pacific Ocean that evolved into the Regional Scale Nodes program within the National Science Foundation's Ocean Observatories Initiative. The construction phase of this observatory began in September 2009 with the announcement of an award to the University of Washington of $126 million over five-and-a-half years. This distributed, remote, sensor-robotic network will convert a sector of the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate and overlying ocean into an internationally accessible, interactive, real-time natural laboratory capable of reaching millions of users via the Internet. Such networks are at the leading edge of ocean and earth science research and education. Delaney, who joined the University of Washington faculty in 1977, has published nearly 100 papers scientific papers and articles, and has served as chief scientist on more than 45 oceanographic research cruises, many of which have included the Deep Submergence Vehicle Alvin and the Remotely Operated Vehicle Jason. In September 2005, he co-led the VISIONS'05 research expedition, which successfully broadcast the first-ever live, high-definition video from the seafloor across the world. Scientists, educators, and the general public, viewed the real-time broadcasts from the underwater volcanoes of the NE Pacific over cable and satellite television and on the web via the ResearchChannel. His research focuses on the deep-sea volcanic activity of the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the northeast Pacific Ocean. In the summer of 1998, Delaney led a joint expedition with the American Museum of Natural History to successfully recover four volcanic sulfide structures now on display in AMNH's Hall of the Planet Earth. This U.S./Canadian effort was the subject of a NOVA/PBS and a BBC documentary entitled Volcanoes of the Deep. Samples collected on this expedition produced the highest temperature microbes ever cultured on earth. Some hypotheses link these deepsea volcanic systems to the origin of life on earth. In 1987, Delaney served as the first Chairman of the RIDGE Program and initial co-chairman of the international InterRIDGE. Both programs were designed to foster intensive studies of the physical, chemical, and biological interactions that characterize the vigorous volcanic and hydrothermal activity along the 70,000-kilometer mid-ocean ridge system. These programs, still active today, have channeled hundreds of millions of dollars into research and education about processes that support exotic life forms sustained through chemosynthesis driven by plate tectonics several kilometers below sea level. Delaney has served on several NASA Committees charged with defining the nature of missions to Europa, one of the moons of Jupiter, suspected to harbor both a liquid ocean and submarine volcanoes. Back to Top
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