ronment was noisy with a water depth often less than 20m. Following this success, FSME is now expanding its pool of USBL in ordering a second GAPS unit for the Middle East.
James Stewart: Scripps Diving Officer Honored
James Stewart, chief diving officer emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, has been awarded the 2008 American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) Scientific Diving Lifetime Achievement Award. From 1960 until his retirement in 1991, Stewart managed Scripps' diving operations, the oldest and largest nongovernmental research diving program in the U.S. Under his guidance, the program became a model for safety and effectiveness for international research diving. Today he continues to be involved with the Scripps scientific diving program as an advisor to the Scripps Diving Control Board and lecturer for Scripps scientific diving courses. The AAUS Scientific Diving Lifetime Achievement Award is bestowed annually to a member of the scientific diving community who has made significant contributions in advancing underwater science and technology. "Jim's legacy is apparent in all aspects of what we do," said Christian McDonald, current Scripps Diving Safety Officer. "The rational approach to scientific diver training and diving safety developed and promoted by Jim and his colleagues in the early years remain the cornerstone for AAUS standards for diving safety." A native of San Diego, Stewart first put on a diving mask in 1941, paving the way to an invitation to the San Diego Bottom Scratchers, the nation's oldest and most exclusive skin diving club. Joining Scripps as a volunteer in 1952, Stewart, with Conrad Limbaugh and Andy Rechnitzer (both previous recipients of the AAUS Scientific Diving Lifetime Achievement Award), worked to innovate scuba training procedures and underwater data collecting techniques, allowing scientists to safely and efficiently use scuba as a means of conducting underwater research. As diving safety officer in the 1960s, Stewart developed the original "University Guide for Diving Safety," a diving safety manual promulgating the framework for the conduct and management of scientific diving programs, initially within the University of California system and later for the national scientific community and various state and federal agencies. While conducting research diving off Canton Island (Central Pacific Ocean) in 1961, Stewart was attacked by a gray reef shark. Hit twice on the left elbow, the bites cut the joint capsule and two arteries. With his diving experience and the aid of friend Ron Church, he was able to escape and avoid further injuries. He was flown to a Hawaiian hospital and eventually recovered fully. Teledyne RD Instruments is formally seeking ADCPs in Action 2009 speakers, co-sponsors, poster paper presenters, and attendees
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Teledyne RDI User's Conference Back in SD
Teledyne RD Instruments (RDI) will host its next ADCPs in Action Users' Conference in San Diego, CA on October 5-7, 2009. Teledyne RDI's users' conference was designed to bring the oceanographic community together for an exchange of information between Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) and Doppler Velocity Log (DVL) users, industry experts, and third party manufacturers. Each year, ADCPs in Action continues to grow in popularity, attracting industry experts from around the globe who share their experience and address the topics deemed most important to today's ADCP/DVL users. Teledyne RDI's 2009 event will once again be comprised of three simultaneous tracks including: water resources flow measurement applications; coastal/oceanographic current profiling/waves measurement applications; and precision navigation applications. This year's event will include a well rounded group of presentations provided by customers and industry experts, extensive product/software training, user forums, data analysis clinics, new product introductions, poster papers, and innovative third party solutions. This three-day conference also includes numerous social events designed to encourage networking and a free flowing exchange of ideas and information. At this time,
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NOAA Ship Named to National Historic Register
NOAA Ship John N. Cobb, a former fisheries research vessel based in Seattle, has been named to the National Register of Historic Places,
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