In concert with the Propeller’s Club 2020 theme of looking ahead for the next 5 years within the Seattle Maritime Community the focus for the February meeting with be ocean research. Seattle is the home of a rich and healthy ocean research enterprise that includes vessel operators, suppliers, builders and maintainers. A robust and healthy maritime industry that supports oceanographic research is essential for enabling continued investigation of our oceans and all that is related to their health. For this meeting we will have presentations from:
Eric King (former SPC President!), Director of Operations, Schmidt Ocean Institute
Sea Bird Scientific – Seattle supplier of major oceanographic scientific equipment and instrumentation
Robert Kamphaus, University National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS)
OceanGate, Inc.