2023 regional competition
registration is now open
Hosted by: Massachusetts Maritime Academy
Date: April 22, 2023
Location: Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts
In-Person Competition
Classes: SCOUT/NAVIGATOR/RANGER
Eben Franks
508 566 4300 (cell)
c.ebenfranks@gmail.com abellabowen@gmail.com
C. Eben Franks has 50 years of experience as a sailor, seaman, sea-going technician, geological engineer, geochemist, marine science educator, project manager, underwater vehicle pilot, adventurer and ocean explorer. Between 1981 and 2002, he was manager of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Stable Isotope Paleoclimate lab. During that time, he personally collected over 500 deep sea sediment cores ranging in length from a few inches to more than 100 feet. In 2002, Eben collected the longest sediment core ever taken in the Arctic, more than 65 feet. He has performed oxygen and carbon analyses using mass spectrometry on approximately 70,000 samples spanning all of the world's oceans. This immense amount of data has provided detailed records of global climate and ocean circulation changes over the past 5 million years.
Eben's multifarious interests include development of environmental monitoring sensors, exploration for sea-bed minerals, marine casualty investigations, underwater exploration and archeology, science education, climate change, mass spectrometry, renewable energy development, maritime domain awareness, port security as well as emergency underground communications for the mining industry
