SSC experts to chair event

STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. -- Two oceanographers from NASA's Stennis Space Center will chair a conference on ocean sensing and monitoring. The International Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Defense Security and Sensing's fourth Ocean Sensing and Monitoring conference is scheduled for April 23-27 in Baltimore, Md. It will be chaired by Weilin "Will" Hou and Bob Arnone, both oceanographers in the Oceanography Division at Naval Research Laboratory at Stennis Space Center. Hou developed the conference for SPIE and has chaired the event with Arnone since 2008. The conference will focus on research and development efforts in the open and coastal ocean with respect to defense and security interests. An emphasis will be placed on in situ and remote monitoring, deep-sea operations, forecasting, new technology and techniques, monitoring of unique events, and environmental limitations and impacts of note to those in the homeland security and defense sectors. (Source: Naval Research Laboratory, 01/11/12)