Marine & Oceanographic Technology Network (MOTN)

MOTN is committed to expanding the business opportunities of its members related to products and technologies for the marine and oceanographic industries.

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MOTN Member News! FarSounder Welcomes Office & Finance Administrator

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FarSounder is honored to announce Richard Minogue as our Office & Finance Administrator. He will work closely with the CEO on accounting, corporate contracts, and human resources, in addition to providing administrative support to the FarSounder team. Richard Minogue, Office & Finance Admin Richard comes to us with a long background in human [ Continue reading. ]

MOTN Member News! Hydroid Engineering, Operations and Program Management Organizations Appraised at CMMI V2.0 Maturity Level 3

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Appraisal signifies an important milestone in Hydroid’s continuous improvement journey to establish best practices in cost, schedule and quality process performance  Pocasset, Mass. – May 30, 2019 – Hydroid, Inc., a subsidiary of Kongsberg Maritime and a leading manufacturer of marine robotic systems, today announced it was appraised at Maturity Level [ Continue reading. ]

MOTN Member News! Ships and Outfitting for Canada

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Brian Perkins of Dirigo Strategies, LLC will be attending the Canadian Association of Defence and Securities (CANSEC) Trade Show to be held in Ottawa, Ontario on May 29 and May 30th. Companies seeking representation are encouraged to make contact now. CANSEC 2019 will once again showcase leading-edge technology, products and services for naval, aerospace, [ Continue reading. ]

MOTN Member News! FarSounder Collaborates with URI Capstone Program

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FarSounder has partnered with the University of Rhode Island ELECOMP Capstone Program. In the program, two students were matched with a local business’ to work on designing, building, programming, and testing solutions to real-world problems. The two senior-level engineering students working with FarSounder this past school year were Thomas Lott and Cole [ Continue reading. ]

Teledyne RD Instruments Launches Two New Next-Gen Technologies

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(San Diego, Calif. – April 23, 2019)   In 1982, RD Instruments introduced the industry’s first Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), forever changing the way that ocean currents are measured around the globe.  Thirteen years later, this innovative technology was literally flipped on its head to create the industry’s first Doppler Velocity [ Continue reading. ]

TMTW 2019 Call for Speakers

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TELEDYNE MARINE TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP CALL FOR SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED (San Diego, Calif. – April 22, 2019)  Teledyne Marine has announced a call for speakers for its joint Teledyne Marine Technology Workshop (TMTW) to be hosted in San Diego, CA; October  6-9, 2019.   Teledyne Marine's 23 industry-leading brands will once again join forces [ Continue reading. ]

Zephyr Education Foundation’s Marine Science and Technology Program Celebrates 10th Year

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This spring Zephyr Education Foundation (ZEF) starts its 10 year hosting high school and college classes on field trips in Woods Hole. Each year over 2000 students participate in ZEF’s hands-on scientific “cruises” in Vineyard Sound. During the trips students deploy a benthic sled with camera to get live video on board of different habitats, deploy a [ Continue reading. ]

MOTN Member News! Prawler Joins McLane Profiler Line

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April 4, 2019 (Falmouth, MA) – McLane Research Laboratories, Inc. announces that the Prawler, a low cost, shallow profiling vehicle is now available as part of the McLane Profiler product line.  The Prawler collects and transmits sensor data from the surface to 500 m of the water column, traveling the mooring wire using wave actuated motion. April 9-11 [ Continue reading. ]

2019 New England Regional MATE Student ROV Competition – Volunteers Needed

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Each year the Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center sponsors a student ROV competition for middle, high school and college students.    Teams are given a mission task and a set of specifications for their ROV. Teams are then responsible for the design and construction of their ROV to accomplish the required [ Continue reading. ]

www.blueincubator.com — >> A “BlueTech” Center On The North Plymouth Waterfront: If we build it, will you come?

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There is an opportunity to create a unique "BlueTech" center on the waterfront in North Plymouth, MA that is accessible by commuter rail from South Station in Boston and roughly equi-distant from the 500+ marine technology companies and academic institutions that have been identified in southeastern New England and comprise our survey population. We are [ Continue reading. ]

MOTN Member News! Alucia2 Installing FarSounder 3D FLS

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FarSounder’s flagship navigation product, the FarSounder-1000 Forward Looking Sonar (FLS), has been selected by the OceanX exploration team to help provide safe passage for Alucia2, their new 85.3m research and exploration yacht. Admarel BV, a member of the Alewijnse Group, is the FarSounder dealer in the Netherlands instrumental in securing this [ Continue reading. ]

Rhonda Moniz Underwater Forensic Investigator on Oxygen’s Smiley Face Killers: The Hunt for Justice

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Don't miss Smiley Face Killers: Will Hurley's Family Learns of His Death (Season 1, Episode 3) airing on the Oxygen channel on Saturday, February 2nd 7:00 PM. Our own Rhonda Moniz is the underwater forensics investigator on the third episode highlighting the cold case in Boston. Retired NYPD detectives investigate the Smiley Face murder theory talk to the [ Continue reading. ]

MOTN MEMBER NEWS! Captain Brian Perkins Receives Surface Navy Association’s Special Recognition Award

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While attending the Surface Navy Association Symposium, held in Washington DC, Captain Brian Perkins was awarded a Special Recognition Award. This award is generally awarded to Surface Navy Association members, dependents and retirees whose community-related activities go “above and beyond” as well as promoting the Surface Navy. “He was awarded the Surface [ Continue reading. ]

MOTN MEMBER NEWS! Strategies is proud to announce a new associate to our consulting group.

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Matt is an acquisition and operations specialist who excels at planning and execution while tracking risk and risk management and ensuring that cost, schedule, and performance goals are met. Matt is a certified DHS Level III Program Manager and a Level II Requirements Manager with a Masters in Quality Systems Management capped by Program Manager for the USCG [ Continue reading. ]

MOTN Helps Promote Blue Innovation in New England

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  MOTN was a proud sponsor of The Blue Innovation Symposium, held from November 27-28, 2018 at Salve Regina University in Newport. The Symposium, organized by Salve’s Office of Graduate Studies and Continuing Education Programs and the Canadian Consulate General of Boston, was the largest marine technology conference in New England with more than 200 [ Continue reading. ]

MOTN MEMBER NEWS! Falmouth Scientific Receives Patent Immunity for ExxonMobil’s Cable Head Source Patent

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Cataumet, MA, USA – Oct. 4, 2018 Falmouth Scientific, Inc. (FSI) has received a patent immunity from ExxonMobil for ExxonMobil’s Cable Head Marine Seismic Source (CHS) patent (US 9,864,081). This immunity enables FSI to incorporate its seismic source with HawkEyeTM Clear Signature technology into ExxonMobil’s CHS concept for near-zero offset data [ Continue reading. ]