Biography
Bill has been involved in developing instruments and vehicles for military, industrial and science ocean applications for more than 30 years. Bill joined the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in 1991 and has been doing research and development of remotely operated and autonomous vehicles as well as in situ science instruments. He has operated many of those vehicles and instrument systems across the Pacific, Atlantic, Mediterranean, Arctic and Antarctic seas. He is also an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University, teaching robotics and ocean going technologies since 1999 as well as the creator of the AUV Tutorial program for the IEEE – Oceanic Engineering Society. As Chair of the OES Technical Committee on Autonomous Marine Systems Bill also sponsors the Bi-Annual AUV Symposiums and is also chairing the committee on Marine Autonomous Systems Competitions Coordination (MASC2) that is working globally to standardize student AUV Competitions.