Anastasia Abramova

Russia

abramanastas@gmail.com

Anastasia Abramova graduated with a Specialist Degree in Geography - marine geomorphology from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2008. In 2008, Anastasia joined the GEBCO certificate program at UNH. After graduating, she returned to UNH to earn a master's degree in Earth Sciences: Ocean Mapping option.

Felipe Barrios Burnett

Chile

fbarrios.burnett@gmail.com

Lieutenant Commander Felipe Barrios Burnett is part of the Chilean Navy Hydrographic and Oceanographic Office’s staff. He graduated as an IHO/FIG Cat A Hydrographer by the end of 2002. Since then he has participated in more than 30 surveys from Alaska to Antarctica.

In 2008 and 2009, he was part of CCOM in the GEBCO program where he also got Cat A recognition. After his program he sailed from Seward to Kodiak, AK aboard NOAA ship RAINIER and visited the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO) at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.

Now, he is back at CCOM to finish his Master’s Degree in Ocean Mapping, researching about Antarctic Continental Shelf.

Kentaro Kaneda

Japan

kaneda-w6ak@kaiho.mlit.go.jp

Researcher
Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department
Japan Coast Guard

Christina Franco de Lacerda

Brazil

cartotina@gmail.com

Rachot Osiri

Thailand

r_osiri@yahoo.com

Hydrographic Department
Royal Thai Navy
Thailand
 

Guillermo Humberto Diaz Peña

Columbia

ghdiazp@gmail.com

Commander Guillermo Humberto Diaz graduated from the Naval Academy in 1993 and has since performed missions of maritime traffic control , interdiction and sovereignty. He was Chief of Staff of Coast Guard in the Caribbean, where he planned interdiction operations yielded capture of several drug boats, and also activities to safeguard life at sea.

Guillermo earned his degree as a physical oceanographer at the Naval Academy Almirante Padilla, and was accepted into the Nippon Foundation / GEBCO program at the University of New Hampshire in the United States.  His laboratory visits during this program included a visit to Centre of Oceanographic and Hydrographic Research, Japan, to improve his understanding of on Electronic Charts and he joined the NOAA vessel, RAINIER, which was performing bathymetric surveys in Alaska.

Commander Guillermo Diaz is currently Chief of Department of Naval Operations with the Specific Command of San Andres and Providencia, developing interdiction operations to control drug trafficking with the Naval Air Force of the Caribbean and Coast Guard of San Andres and Providencia.  Guillermo is also involved in planning protection operations of Colombian fishing vessels and maritime traffic control, and safeguarding the national sovereignty of the archipelago of San Andres and Providencia.