San Diego LOC

General Chair
Alan Kenny

Honorary Co-Chair
Carly Jackson, U.S. Navy

Exhibits Chair
Dave Velasco

Exhibits Advisor
Brock Rosenthal

Arrangements
Leonard Pool

MTS Liaison
Andy Clark

General Co-Chair
Robert Wernli

Honorary Co-Chair
Margaret Leinen
Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Exhibits Co-Chair
Brad Fisher

Technical Program Chair
Barbara Fletcher

Special Session Coordinator
Kevin Hardy

Financial Chair
Mike Pinto

OES Liaison
Jerry Carroll

Honorary Co-Chair
Vladimir Ryabinin
Executive Secretary of the UN Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and Assistant Director General of UNESCO

Student Poster Competition Chair
Vladimir Djapic

Student Volunteer Chair
Bonita Chamberlin

Social Media Chair
Manu Ignatius
Porto LOC

Co-chair
António Pascoal
Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems (LARSyS)
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
Univ. Lisbon



Technical co-Chair
Fausto Ferreira
LABUST
University of Zagreb

MTS Liaison
Andy Clark

Co-chair
Eduardo Silva
Inesc TEC
Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP)
Porto
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Technical co-chair
João Pedro Gomes
Laboratory of Robotics and Engineering Systems (LARSyS)
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
Univ. Lisbon



IEEE/OES Liaison
João Alves
NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE)

Co-chair
João Borges de Sousa
Laboratório de Sistemas e Tecnologia Subaquática (LSTS)
Faculty of Engineering (FEUP)
Porto University


Technical co-Chair
Nuno Alexandre Cruz
Inesc TEC
Faculty of Engineering, Porto University

Publicity chair
Pedro Baptista
Institute for Systems and Robotics
Instituto Superior Técnico

UN decade of the oceans chair
Luís Menezes Pinheiro
CESAM
University of Aveiro

