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March 2014 ContentsVolume 57 Number 2 Dennis L. Bryant is Dennis L. Bryant is with Maritime Regulatory Consulting, and a regular contributor to Maritime Reporter & Engineering News. e: dennis.l.bryant@gmail.com p. 22Kira Coley graduated with a BSc. (Hons) Marine Biology degree from University of Portsmouth and has extensive experience as a Field Scientist in various locations including Madagascar, Sicily, and Scotland. She joined Planet Ocean Ltd in 2013 as a science liaison between Planet Ocean and its principals. p. 44Edward Lundquist is a retired naval of Þ cer who writes on naval, maritime, defense and security issues. He is a regular contributor to Maritime Reporter and Marine Technology Reporter. p. 22 & 38 Jeremy Dillon holds a PhD in physics and physical oceanography from Memorial University of Newfoundland, as well as master?s degrees in mathematics and aeronautics from Carleton University and Caltech, respectively. Previously, he was an instrumentation engineer with the Flight Research Laboratory of the National Research Council Canada specializing in inertial/GPS navigation and distributed real-time systems. p. 62Tom Peters is a freelance writer living in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, a suburb of Halifax. He is retired from the newspaper business after 41 years with The Halifax Chronicle-Herald where he held several editorial positions during his career. In his last 10 years at the paper he was a business reporter with a strong focus on the marine industry. p. 66Authors Authors Peters Bryant DillonColey Lundquist Clari cation In the October 2013 feature ?From Learning to Earning? which documents the role of Scripps Institution of Oceanography in developing technologies that evolve into commercial entities, there is a clari Þ cation regarding the information on Quad Geometrics. The clariÞ ed paragraph is below. Quad GeometricsWith a profound understanding of the oceans and the atmosphere, Scripps has a lot to offer companies looking for ways to Þ nd and understand oil and gas deposits deep within the earth. With that same interest in mind, Quad Geometrics, LLC, another recent Scripps startup, was cofounded by Mark Zumberge, Ph.D., Research Geophysicist and head of the Gravity Lab at the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, to provide products and services that precisely measure key earth parameters such gravity, sound, pressure and vibration. Quad Geometrics takes technology developed through decades of research in the North Sea and other areas of intense oil and gas exploration, and brings it to the commercial marketplace. The instruments, licensed to Quad Geometrics by the University of California, San Diego, show changes in density under the seaß oor so drilling companies can see what?s happening underground as the oil and gas are pumped out. Changes in gravity measurements help extraction companies understand and maintain the balance between remaining oil and gas, empty space and the water used to back Þ ll the voids created by the pumping activity. Information on how much product remains in a reservoir is potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars to these companies. Quad Geometrics? instruments can give a clear picture of the underground/underwater topography showing how much or how little viable product is sitting below the sea. As companies attempt to squeeze out the maximum from each well, such technologies can measure the reservoir to see if it?s cost effective to continue pumping or time to stop. Prof. Steven Constable directs the Marine Electromagnetism (EM) Laboratory at Scripps and established the Seaß oor Electromagnetic Methods Consortium (http://marineemlab.ucsd.edu/semc. html), which has attracted the support of leading oil and gas companies and specialized geophysical services providers that bene Þ t from the laboratory?s world-class expertise and access to cutting-edge instruments developed over decades by the EM Lab. March 2014 6 MTRMTR #2 (1-17).indd 6MTR #2 (1-17).indd 62/24/2014 10:05:17 AM2/24/2014 10:05:17 AM
