Overview:

On April 4-6, 2005, Teledyne RD Instruments hosted its 4th ADCPs in Action Users Conference in beautiful San Diego, CA.

This year’s conference drew over 160 Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCPs) and Doppler Velocity Log (DVL) users from the commercial, academic and government market sectors.

In keeping with the ADCPs in Action model, two full days of speaker sessions and product training were combined with some new sessions including round-table discussions, customer focus groups, and data analysis clinics. This year’s ADCPs in Action attracted over 40 industry speakers, 15 co-sponsors, and several poster papers.

The event was divided into three concurrent tracks delineated by RDI’s business units:

• Water Resources: inland flow measurement applications;
  
  

• Marine Measurements: coastal and oceanographic current profiling and wave measurement applications
  
  

• Navigation: Doppler velocity log applications
  

>>See our full schedule

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On the Friday prior to ADCPs in Action, RADM Richard West, President of CORE (Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education) visited RDI’s facility and gave a presentation detailing CORE’s recent activities and the status of government funding for oceanographic initiatives. Teledyne RDI is very proud to be the first commercial company to gain acceptance to the CORE organization. For more information on CORE, visit www.coreocean.org.

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On Monday morning, keynote speaker, Captain Craig N. McLean, NOAA Executive Officer, National Ocean Service kicked off ADCPs in Action with a highly informative overview of the history and future goals and objectives of NOAA. Captain McLean also congratulated those in attendance for their contributions to science, and highlighted the role that our industry can play in driving oceanographic initiatives forward.

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Our thoughts on this event:

Harry Maxfield, RDI’s V.P. Sales/Marketing reports “The record attendance and participation in this year’s users conference is a real tribute to the value of this venue, and the sheer number of people using RDI’s products in the field. We’re extremely pleased to be able to provide our customer with this opportunity to share their ideas and experience in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. In essence, our customers attend this event to learn from each other, and in-turn, we learn from them. This event allows us to stay in touch with our customers needs, and ensure that we’re meeting them.”

Our attendees’ thoughts on this event:

After reviewing the surveys filled out by our attendees, we feel more confident than ever that this event is of tremendous value to our community, and we look forward to continuing this tradition.

Here are just a few excerpts from our attendee comments section:

“Great job once again! Teledyne RDI is a model of how to do a users conference.”

“Excellent group of people, interesting technical developments and new techniques for using ADCPs. The fact that a large group (>100) people made it even more attractive”

“Great, friendly atmosphere!”

“Ample opportunity to talk with speakers/attendees offline in an informal setting - very productive!”

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ADCPs in Action 2006!
A date and location for RDI’s next ADCPs in Action Users Conference is in the works, and will be released in the near future.
We hope to see you there!