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50 MTR January/February 2011 people & companies Bolton Joins OMM Offshore Marine Management (OMM) strengthened its position in operation and maintenance with the recruitment of industry specialist, Stephen Bolton to the newly created position of Director of Operations and Maintenance. Scripps Scientist Honored Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego marine ecologist Ed Parnell has been honored with the 2010 Roger Revelle Award from the San Diego Oceans Foundation. The award, named after former Scripps director, climate science pioneer and UC San Diego founder Roger Revelle, annu- ally recognizes a San Diegan who "has made a significant contribution to man's ability to coexist with the marine environment." YSI Promotes Ellison Rob Ellison has been promoted to Director of Business Development for YSI Inc. He will work with the company’s R&D teams to commer- cialize new technologies for the water quality market. Rob has served as the Marketing & Business Development Manager of YSI’s Environmental Monitoring Systems business since 2005. Cosalt Appoints New Norwegian Head Cosalt Offshore, a provider of lift- ing, tooling and marine services to the oil and gas industry, appointed Runar Blakstad as the new Managing Director of its Norway division. Blakstad was most recently Managing Director of Sir Fish in Stavanger where he has restructured the business and turned it around into a profitable venture. He takes over the role at Cosalt Offshore in Norway from Jack Braten who estab- lished the original Myhre Maritime business and saw it through the tran- sition to Cosalt ownership. InterMoor Names Landry Subsea Ops Manager InterMoor named Ross Landry Subsea Operations Manager. Working out of InterMoor’s Lafayette, La., subsea facility, Landry will manage all activities related to subsea operations includ- ing but not limited to abrasive cut- ting services, heave compensation services and all facility-based proj- ects. Landry has served as Technical Manager and Assistant Operations Manager for InterMoor’s subsea facility. He has been responsible for recruiting offshore personnel, imple- menting a preventative maintenance program to minimize operational downtime and for supervising the design modification of offshore equipment to improve reliability. Capt. Score Takes Command NOAA Capt. David A. Score assumed command of the agency’s Marine Operations Center-Atlantic in Norfolk, Va., which manages the day-to-day operations of the nine research and survey ships in NOAA’s Marport Appoints Dr. Pinto Chief Sonar Scientist Marport Deep Sea Technologies appointed Dr. Marc Pinto as Chief Sonar Scientist. He will be employed full- time with Marport’s French sub- sidiary located in Lorient, France. Dr. Pinto graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Paris in 1983. He received his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from the University of Paris in 1991. From 1985 to 1993 he worked as a research engineer for Thomson- CSF, specializing in the application of numerical techniques to mag- netic recording. In 1993 he joined Thomson-Sintra (now Thales Underwater Systems) as Head of the Signal Processing Group, spe- cializing in research of sonars for maritime mine countermeasures and airborne anti-submarine war- fare. In 1997 he joined the NATO Undersea Research Center, La Spezia, Italy where he served as Head of the Mine Countermeasures Group and con- ducted research into Synthetic Aperture Sonar systems for hunt- ing maritime mines. In 2004 he was appointed Head of the Expeditionary Mine Countermeasures and Port Protection Department where he oversaw research for AUV-based minehunting, maritime mine countermeasures and harbor defense.
