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Deep Sea exploration with the RV Southern Surveyor
11 January – 1 February 2008

Voyage 01/08 11Jan-1Feb 08 reports from the ship >view Exploring the Deep Sea Learn about the voyage objectives, meet the voyagers >more Seeing Underwater With the Autonomous Benthic Explorer (ABE) >more

Dana is a ABE Team Leader / Associate Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Massachusetts, USA. He received the SB, SM, and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dana is currently at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, where he designs and implements robotic control systems for telerobotic and autonomous underwater vehicles. He supervises the thesis research of students enrolled in the WHOI/MIT joint program in Oceanographic Engineering, in the areas of control, robotics, and design.

Dana has gone to sea on over 50 oceanographic expeditions, including the 1985 Titanic discovery cruise. He was a member of the team that developed the telerobotic control system for the Jason ROV and has served as Jason navigator on many cruises. He has been to the deep seafloor six times in DSV Alvin. For operations of the fully autonomous ABE vehicle, his responsibilities include science liaison, control system design and implementation, mission programming and testing, and generation of data products. New developments include Sentry, a successor to ABE, and Nereus, a hybrid vehicle that will be used as both and autonomous and teleoperated vehicle at depths to 11000 meters.

Dana has also participated in a number of education and outreach programs featuring deep submergence technology and seafloor exploration. He is a member of WHOI's Deep Submergence Laboratory (DSL) which was founded by Dr. Robert Ballard.

Modified: 10/01/08

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