Boatman assumes MTS presidency

COLUMBIA, Md. - Jerry Boatman, Ocean Science and Technology Director of QinetiQ North America, has assumed new duties as president of the Marine Technology Society. Boatman, who will serve two years, is a former senior manager of the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command at Stennis Space Center, Miss. Drew Michel, owner and principal consultant of ROV Technologies Inc., Houston, TX, is the society’s president-elect. The Marine Technology Society is an international community of ocean engineers, technologists, policy-makers and educators who provide the ocean community with forums for the exchange of information and ideas through its peer-reviewed MTS Journal, conferences, newsletters and Web site. (Source: Marine Technology Society, January 2011)