People
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John Delaney Program Director and Principal Investigator, Regional Scale Nodes
John Delaney has been a passionate tenacious advocate for launching next-generation ocean science and educational capabilities for decades. New approaches will be made possible by distributed robot- ...
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Pete Barletto, Jr. Director and Chief Operating Officer
Pete Barletto joined the Regional Scale Nodes program in May 2007 after many years in the submarine cable segment of the telecommunications industry. While working for Tyco Telecommunications, Barle ...
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Mike Kelly Assistant Director
Michael Kelly joined the RSN program in May 2007. He has a broad spectrum of experience in the telecommunications industry, including having planned, constructed and operated high-capacity global ne ...
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Gary Harkins Chief Engineer
Gary Harkins leads the RSN engineering team. He is the Department Head for the Applied Physics Laboratory's Electronic Systems Department, where he manages a team of hardware and software engi ...
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Deborah Kelley Project Scientist
Deborah Kelley is a long-time active contributor to the planning and development of the scientific programs and experiments associated with the Ocean Observatories Initiative. Kelley is a marine geo ...
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Kendra Daly Project Scientist
Kendra Daly is a biological oceanographer who has investigated aspects of food web interactions, biogeochemical cycles, and ecosystem dynamics using acoustic and optical imaging systems and other in ...
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Douglas Luther Project Scientist
Doug Luther is a physical oceanographer whose research has dwelt on the phenomena that transport energy through the oceans, producing impacts on water properties and fluid energetics far from source ...
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Mike Harrington Systems Engineer
Michael Harrington leads the Systems Engineering effort for the RSN project. This includes requirements analysis, interface coordination with the CI and CG IOs, project planning, document management ...
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Tim McGinnis System Engineer
Tim McGinnis's main interest and expertise is in deep ocean engineering and equipment design. For over 20 years, Tim has been involved with a variety of towed and bottom landing vehicle development ...
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Brian Ittig Marine Operations Manager
Brian Ittig joined the Regional Scale Nodes program in July 2008 as the Marine Operations Manager. He has over 18 years of professional experience including eight years in the telecommunications and ...
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Skip Denny Ocean Engineer
Skip Denny is part of the RSN engineering team at APL's Electronic System Department and has a particular niche for ocean sensors. He has developed sensor systems and signal processing schemes for ...
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Mitch Elend Oceanographer
Mitchell Elend is an Oceanographer in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington. He spent several years in the Coast Guard and is a graduate of the UW. As part of the RSN Team, Mitc ...
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Nancy Penrose Communications Coordinator
Nancy Penrose serves as the communications coordinator for the Regional Scale Nodes and has been with the program for ten years. She has been a technical editor and writer in industry and academe, i ...
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Mark Stoermer Director, Center for Environmental Visualization
Mark is a Computer Engineer who specializes in scientific visualization, interactive marine education, Web interface design and advanced display technologies. The main focus of his work is directed ...
