R.M. Young: President Transition as Namesake Tom Young Retires
R.M. Young Company, a leader in meteorological instrumentation, announced the retirement of President Tom Young, marking the end of an era for the family-founded and operated company. Tom, who has been an integral part of the company since 1991, officially stepped down as President on April 1, 2025. He is succeeded by Eric Mannix, President and CFO.Tom Young’s career at R.M. Young Company spans over three decades, during which he played a pivotal role in fostering a people-centered culture and advancing the company’s engineering excellence. He initially joined as Vice President of Marketing
Storm Chaser Cyrena Arnold to Sign Books at R.M. Young AMS 2025 Booth
R.M. Young Company will host a special book signing event with Cyrena Arnold — Meteorologist, Storm Chaser, and Author — at booth 517 during the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, January 13–14, 2025.Arnold’s professional accomplishments begin back in 2006 when she received a NASA certificate of appreciation for her efforts towards aviation safety while employed at a NASA contractor, AirDat. She then installed weather stations on the remote Alaska tundra for six years with McVehil-Monnett Associates, then came to New Hampshire as the Director of
Meet the CTO: David Shea, Kraken Robotics
. He discusses the technologies and trends that will power his company’s growth into the future.Watch the full, uncut interview with David Shea, CTO, Kraken Robotics on Marine Technology TV:Dave, to starts us off can you give a ‘by the numbers’ look at Kraken today?Kraken is a relatively young company, starting the business in 2012, and headquartered in St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador. Back then we only had six employees: myself, our founder Karl Kenny, and a handful of other folks. Since then we've grown, and today we're about 250 people worldwide. We have offices
Equinor Taps Ocean Infinity for Floating Wind Farm Site Survey off California
80.062 acres in the Pacific Ocean, Equinor secured a ~2-gigawatt (GW) lease in the Morro Bay area that has the potential to generate enough energy to power ~750 000 US homes.Oliver Plunkett, CEO at Ocean Infinity explained how the Morro Bay project marks an important milestone for this forward-focused young company: "When Ocean Infinity was formed, the idea of using robotics at enormous scale to collect more data, faster and with less environmental impact while optimizing safety was our guiding principle. "This project is that entire vision coming to life. It's exciting and rewarding
Houlder Supports Firm Developing Micropiling Tech for Offshore Wind
;re overly reliant on legacy solutions from oil and gas. Moving forward, we have to embrace new, more sustainable approaches, which we believe demands the introduction of a more biomimicry approach to soil interventions - the way the trees intervene in the soil with their root pile structures. As a young company with a bold vision and potentially game-changing technology, we recognized the need for quality partners and the depth and breadth of expertise that Houlder offers helps enable us to bring our offering to the marketplace.”
Fiber Optic Sensing and Mining an Ocean of Data
understanding seismicity, volcanic activity and natural hazards that take place below water.” It’s been something of a journey but there’s a small but growing band of researchers and now commercial operations looking at it. One is Dr. Nate Lindsey, Lead Scientist at FiberSense, a young company providing digitally inter-connected fiber-based sensing solutions. “When I first started looking at DAS we were working on permafrost thaw detection with the Cold Regions Research and Environmental Lab in Fairbanks, Alaska,” he says. “Installing cables ourselves in a field
VIDEO Interview: Subsea Europe Services: Driving the ‘Survey System-as-a-Service’ Business Model
Europe Services founder and CEO Soren Themann, is gearing up for a brisk business premised on true autonomy, AI and neural systems in 2021 and beyond.Soren, to start, can you give an overview, a ‘by the numbers’ account if you like of Subsea Europe Services today?Subsea Europe Services is a young company, founded in January 2020, which was only a few weeks before COVID-19 started dominating our lives. The goal of Subsea Europe is to make it possible for every organization to collect and evaluate marine data professionally. During our first year in business we made a significant investment
ICONIC Installs First Instrumented Tubular Plug Offshore Norway
or intervention operation a more cost-efficient manner."Some potential applications are temporary plugging for drilling and intervention, perforation logging, P&A and riser-less pre slot recovery," ICONIC explained.Jarl Endre Pedersen, Chief Executive Officer, ICONIC said: “As a young company, we are very proud to have successfully delivered our first iTP installation for a major operator in Norway. With the successful installation and monitoring on the pilot well installation, we have shown that knowledge is power. By having more access to real time data, costs are cut and safety
Young Debuts New Ultrasonic Anemometer
The R. M. Young Company has introduced the ResponseONE Ultrasonic Anemometer. The ResponseONE Ultrasonic Anemometer (Model 91000) is fully wind tunnel tested and calibrated to provide accurate wind measurement over an operating range of up to 70 meters/second (156 mph). Wind speed and direction data is provided at up to 10 updates per second and made available via a variety of standard serial output formats including SDI-12, NMEA, RMYT and ASCII text. According to the manufacturer, the sensor features durable, weather proof construction and low power consumption.
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