September 23, 2014
Fran Rowe, technical advisor of Rowe Technologies, recently received the Lockheed Martin Award for Ocean Science and Engineering at the Oceans 2014 MTS/IEEE conference in St. John’s Newfoundland, Canada, reports Hydro International. The Lockheed Martin-sponsored award is presented to an individual who has demonstrated the highest degree of technical accomplishment in the field of marine science, engineering or technology. In 1982, Fran Rowe partnered with Kent Deines and founded RD Instruments. The result of this work introduced the industry’s first Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) capable of measuring current profiles to extended ranges.