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www.seadiscovery.com Marine Technology Reporter 5 Maggie Linskey Merrill is the founding editor and publisher of Marine Technology Reporter. She has 20 years experience communicating marine science, technology, environmental and engineering news and information. She has held positions at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, HA Perry Foundation and Sea Data Corporation. In 1993 she founded MTR and the Marine and Oceanographic Technology Network (MOTN). (Story on page 30) www.seadiscovery.com NEW YORK 118 E. 25th St., New York, NY 10010 Tel: (212) 477-6700; Fax: (212) 254-6271 FLORIDA 215 NW 3rd St., Boynton Beach, FL 33435 Tel: (561) 732-1659; Fax: (561) 732-6984 PUBLISHER John C. O'Malley • jomalley@marinelink.com Associate Publisher & Editor Gregory R. Trauthwein trauthwein@marinelink.com Editorial Director Maggie Merrill martrep@aol.com Editorial Intern Melissa Mendoza mendoza@marinelink.com Production Manager John Guzman guzman@marinelink.com Asst. Production Manager Irina Tabakina tabakina@marinelink.com Manager, Information Services Tina Veselov veselov@marinelink.com Manager, Accounting Services Esther Rothenberger rothenberger@marinelink.com Manager, Public Relations Mark O’Malley momalley@marinelink.com Marketing Coordinator Jocelyn Pearring pearring@marinelink.com Manager, Information Technology Services Vladimir Bibik bibik@marinelink.com CIRCULATION Kathleen Hickey mtrcirc@marinelink.com ADVERTISING Sales Manager Dominick Daddio daddio@marinelink.com Senior Vice President, Sales Brett W. Keil bkeil@marinelink.com Tel: (561) 732-1185; Fax: (561) 732-8414 Senior Vice President, Sales Rob Howard howard@marinelink.com Tel: (561) 732-4368; Fax: (561) 732-6984 Vice President of Sales Lucia M. Annunziata annunziata@marinelink.com Classified Ad Sales Dale L. Barnett barnett@marinelink.com Managing Director, International Sales Tony Stein tony.r.stein@btinternet.com 12, Braehead, Bo'ness, West Lothian EH51 OBZ, Scotland, U.K. Tel: +44 (0) 1506 822240; Fax: +44 (0) 1506 828085 Vice President, International Operations Charles E. Keil ckeil@marinelink.com Tel: (561) 732-0312; Fax: (561) 732-8063 on the Cover Chikyu is a $500 million, state-of-the-art scientific drilling vessel designed to drill to 7,000 m below the seabed at approximatedly 2,500 m water depth. (See story on page 38) also in this Edition 4 Editorial 4 Editorial Index 6 BAE Systems Launches Talisman 8 New Depths for Subsea Construction Monitoring 10 USCG, Science Team to Collect Alaska Volcano Data 16 Subsea7 Orders Pipelay Vessel 49 People & Company News 52 Products 54 Sonar Systems & Seafloor Mapping Products 59 MTR Marketplace: JOBS 64 Advertiser’s Index the Authors Dr. James R. McCaul is the founder and president of International Maritime Associates, a consulting firm formed in 1973 to provide business planning support to clients in the mar- itime and offshore oil & gas sectors. (Story on page 26) David Myers is vice president of marketing & product manage- ment for CapRock Communications, which provides satellite communication services to remote and harsh locations for many industries, serving both commercial and government. He has 15 years of experience in the satellite and industrial computing markets, and holds an MBA in Technology Marketing and a Master of Science in Telecommunications. (Story on page 34) MTR#3 (1-16).qxd 4/7/2006 11:09 AM Page 7
