Jose Gianella

Peru

jgianella@dhn.mil.pe

Hydrographic Department
Peruvian Navy

Yasutaka Katagiri

Japan

Researcher
Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department
Japan Coast Guard 

Vasudev Mahale

India

vmahale@nio.org

Engineer
National Institute of Oceanography
India

Nguyen Thanh

Vietnam

thanhrimf@gmail.com

Nguyen is Deputy Director of the Fishing Ground Forecast Center of the Research Institute for Marine Fisheries in Haiphong.  Since Nguyen returned to Vietnam after his year as a Nippon Foundation / GEBCO scholar he has been involved in the application of seabed data for bottom trawler fishery since 2007, although it has not been easy to convince leaders into thinking about how the seabed, especially in coastal and islands ecosystems, is being destroyed. In addition, he has focused on trying to use satellite data for fish forecasting (tuna fish mainly), focusing on establishing a model for this subject.

Leonardo Tun Humbert

Mexico

leontunh@gmail.com

Leonardo Tun Humbert graduated from the Mexican naval academy in 1993, and in 2003 studied a specialty on Hydrography and Cartography at the Oceanographic Institute of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea.  He studied the Harbor and Coastal Hydrography Course, Category “B” in 2004, pertaining to specialist in Hydrography for Coastal Zone Management at the International Maritime Academy in Trieste; Italy.  After he graduated from the Nippon Foundation / GEBCO training program he was assigned to the oceanographic vessel “Rio Suchiate” as executive officer, then as executive officer of the “Antares” Oceanographic vessel and captain of the same vessel. He is now a commander and has the assignment of Director of the Oceanographic Institute of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea in Veracruz, México.

Muhammad Yazid

Indonesia

muhyazid89@gmail.com

Hydrographer
Hydrographic Department
Indonesia