We are thrilled to welcome Club member Tom Reis as our after-dinner speaker for the February Meeting. Tom is founder and president of Substructure, a multidisciplinary marine services company providing fully-integrated underwater industrial services to a wide range of industries. He will be presenting new technologies for ocean floor mapping and some of his discoveries from recent projects. 

Tom has over 20 years of experience managing and conducting marine operations, including many years focused on hydrographic surveying, marine monitoring and assessment, and commercial diving operations. In addition to being Substructure’s president, Tom is also actively involved in the technical aspects of all of the company’s projects. He has been conducting hydrographic survey operations for more than 15 years, including many projects in the initial years that were focused on the search for historic shipwrecks. 

His earlier experiences within this field led him towards the development of a high-resolution survey and mapping capability within Substructure. He was the visionary and driving force behind the thoughtful and deliberate development of our Survey Vessel Orion and he continues to develop new plans for a variety of innovative survey platforms and sensor deployment packages. 

He has hosted a number of educational events over the last several years focused on the acquisition of high-resolution multibeam data and he has also been a featured speaker as part of the UNH CCOM lecture series. He has also been a two-time attendee of the UNB/OMG Shallow-Water Multibeam Course and he has participated in numerous recent hydrographic survey conferences and workshops. 

Registration is now open to the public.  Registrations close February 12th.