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In 1993 she founded MTR and the Marine and Oceanographic

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Dr. Robert Ballard is presently the Director of the Institute for

Archaeological Oceanography at the University of Rhode

Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography after spending 30 years at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution where he founded the Deep Submergence Laboratory. (Story on page 24)

Dr. Stephen R. Hammond is Acting Director the NOAA Ocean

Exploration program. He has served as the program's Chief

Scientist and is Division Director for the Ocean Environment

Research Division of NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental

Laboratory. Dr. Hammond has a Ph.D in marine geophysics and has been involved in submarine volcanic and hydrothermal research for more than 30 years. (Story on page 24)

Dr. Larry Mayer is the director of the Center for Coastal and

Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire and the co-director of the NOAA/UNH Joint Hydrographic Center.

Larry's present research deals with sonar imaging and remote characterization of the seafloor as well as advanced applications of 3-D visualization to ocean mapping problems. (Story on page 24)

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