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David
W. Jourdan is the founder and president of Nauticos LLC, a company
devoted to the exploration of the deep oceans. |
His career of nearly 30 years has been devoted to the exploration
of the deep oceans, concentrating in the areas of remote sensing,
underwater navigation, and renewable energy applications. |
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During
his commission as a U.S. Navy submarine officer and as a physicist
at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, he became
an expert in the exploitation of large undersea environmental data
sets, specializing in information collected by U.S. Navy ocean research
submersibles and associated development programs.
As leader of Nauticos for over 20 years, he has continued to support
scientific, archaeological, and military programs. These include
the development of oceanographic database systems for the Navy,
development and use of Kalman Filter navigation analysis software
for submarine inertial navigators, and support of autonomous underwater
vehicle (AUV) test programs. More
recently, he has worked on projects to develop the use of cold Deep-Ocean
Water for fresh water production, cold agriculture, and other renewable
energy applications.
In 1999 Mr. Jourdan was honored as Maryland’s Small Business
Person of the Year and awarded Ernest and Young’s Entrepreneur
of the Year in Science and Technology. He is an International Fellow
of the Explorer’s Club, and a member of the Sea-Space Symposium.
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