NEPTUNE Canada

NEPTUNE Canada Director

University of Victoria
PO Box 1700
Victoria BC V8W 2Y2
Tel: 250-472-5350 
Fax: 250-472-5370 
E-mail: [email protected]

NEPTUNE Canada staff are listed below. For more contacts, see our full listing of staff within VENUS, Ocean Networks Canada, and the Ocean Networks Canada Centre for Enterprise and Engagement.

Director

Kate Moran, director

• Karen Douglas, technical administrator

Science

Kim Juniper, associate director

• Dilumie Abeysirigunawardena, scientific data specialist
• John Dower, visiting scientist
• Françoise Gervais, marine ecosystems and biodiversity specialist
• Martin Heesemann, research theme integrator, plate tectonics & earthquake dynamics
• Maia Hoeberechts, research theme integrator , engineering and computational research
• Steve Mihaly, research theme integrator, ocean/climate dynamics and effects on marine biota
• Dwight Owens, web content manager
• Martin Scherwath, research theme integrator, gas hydrates and seabed fluid dynamics

Administration and Finance

Fern Johnson, associate director

• Claudio Alfaro, systems administrator
• Leslie Elliott, project coordinator
• Jason Rush, systems administrator
• Erika Tyree, accounting coordinator
• Marion Will, accounting coordinator

Engineering

Ian Kulin, associate director (interim)

• Ian Beliveau, marine equipment technologist
• Clio Bonnett, marine research and project analyst
• Ryan Flagg, mechanical engineering technologist (CO-OP)
• Reece Hasanen, scientific instrument manager
• Jarrett Little, marine equipment technologist
• Jonathon Miller, Marine Equipment Technologist
• Mohammad Mridha, mechanical engineering technologist (CO-OP)
• Richard Riddell, installation support specialist
• Albert Rusky, electrical engineering technologist (CO-OP)
• Matthew Uganecz, installation support specialist
• Jonathan Zand, Systems Integration Engineer

Engineering Consultants

The following external consultants have worked closely with NEPTUNE Canada in the past.

• Steve Bloomer
• Steve Lentz, network engineering consultant
• Peter Phibbs, systems engineering consultant
• Mike Wilson, engineering consultant

Information Technology

Benoît Pirenne, associate director

Li Yan, Visiting Scientist, China National Ocean Technology Centre

Software Team

Eric Guillemot, Manager, Software Team

• Ben Biffard, scientific applications programmer
• Jorge Conde, metadata and data consistency specialist (CO-OP)
• Tim Boesenkool, web technology specialist
• Yan Chen, senior software engineer
• Jonathan Cheng, junior software engineer
• Helena Jeeves, senior software engineer
• Reyna Jenkyns, scientific applications programmer
• Josef Krentz, junior software engineer
• Tim Lavallee, senior software engineer
• Tony Lin, intermediate software engineer
• Khai Yih Ong, intermediate software engineer
• Susan Perkins, intermediate software engineer
• Ronald Schouten, senior software engineer
• Michael Thorne, senior software engineer
• Mitozcelle Valenzuela, intermediate software engineer

Data Curation

• Andy Robertson, video specialist
• Meghan Tomlin, metadata specialist

Software Quality Control

Bob Crosby, Team Lead

• Murray Leslie, software quality control specialist 
• Daisy Qi, software quality control specialist
• Yingsong Zheng, software quality control specialist

Systems

Martin Hofmann, systems manager

• Austin Henry, mission-critical systems administrator
• Shane Kerschtien, mission-critical systems administrator
• Nic Scott, mission-critical systems administrator
• Seann Wagner, mission-critical systems administrator