About Our Principal, Jonathan Beaudoin, Ph.D
Our Experience
After 20 years in academia and the private sector, Jonathan decided to change focus and formed HydroOctave Consulting. His passion now is to help others succeed in their personal, team or company journeys. The services he aims to offer are based on three foundational elements: academic research and teaching, extensive field experience and finally a knack for communicating, teaching and mentoring.
Academic Research and Teaching
Research areas of interest revolve around the core mathematics and physics involved with multibeam echosounders. Specialty areas include oceanography, effects of refraction, backscatter, multi-sensor integration and uncertainty estimation with 50+ publications and conference proceedings on these topics and more.
Field Experience
With over 40 missions at sea, Jonathan has travelled to all parts of the globe over the last 20 years. Mission goals ranged from routine seabed mapping to extensive field testing, calibration, commissioning, shake downs and testing of new equipment, software or procedures. Strong software development and prototyping skills have always played a role in providing unique tools to meet a variety of needs while at sea with always an eye towards refining operational efficiency.
Communicating, Teaching and Mentoring
Jonathan believes strongly in highly effective communication and he believes that this is the foundation that everything is built upon. You need to communicate to engage effectively with others. Teaching has been a lifelong passion of his, culminating in University level instruction at undergraduate and graduate levels at the University of New Brunswick and the University of New Hampshire. With years of experience in supervising undergraduate and graduate students, Jonathan has honed the soft skills needed to mentor, coach and motivate others to reach their goals.