ecoSUB AUVs have been developed through extensive collaboration, and many partner organisations have been involved in joint projects and initiatives that have advanced our progress.  Notably, many engineers from the National Oceanography Centre have played active roles at various stages of ecoSUBs development, keenly led by Dr Alex Phillips from the NOC's Marine Autonomous Robotics Systems group (MARS).

Our operational team below, are supported by Directors, Carole Sloane & Graham Sloane together with an Advisory Board representing Science, Energy and Defence.

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M: +447774180179
​E: terry@ecosub.uk

Terry Sloane
Managing Director

Terry has been involved in ocean engineering in one form or another for 40 years. Trained originally as an electronics engineer, he is a fellow of both IMarEST & the Royal Meteorological Society.  Terry serves as chairman of the Marine Science & Technology Group (formally AMSI), a constituent group of the Society of Maritime Industries).  Terry is a founder member of the IMarEST Operational Oceanography SIG and is a council member of the Challenger Society for Marine Science . Terry is a member of the Mary Rose Trust, learning and education team and provides guest lecturers in data logging to undergraduate and postgraduate courses in marine archeology; he has also been a technical consultant to the BBC.
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Terry has served as both technical director and sales and marketing director of some of the industry’s best known companies and formed Planet Ocean Ltd in 2003 and subsequently ecoSUB Robotics Limited in 2016.

Terry has overall responsibility for the ecoSUB concept and direction of the ecoSUB project ensuring that the focus remains firmly on end user expectations.

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M: +447788201875
​E: iain@ecosub.uk

Iain Vincent
Director

​Iain Vincent is a graduate in Marine Environmental Science from the University of Portsmouth, UK. Iain is a founder member of the Society of Maritime Industries, Marine Autonomous Systems Group.

Iain has extensive experience working with key marine science institutions across the UK as well as international manufacturers of sensor technology, and benefits from many productive relationships with members of the science community. Iain has led programs to secure funding for the development of ecoSUB AUVs and has been involved in the concept design, stakeholder engagement, project overview and direction of the ecoSUB program.

​In 2016 Iain was appointed as a Director of ecoSUB Robotics Limited, the company formed to spin out the low cost AUV technology developed in collaboration between Planet Ocean and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC).

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T: +442380591508
​E: jeremy@planet-ocean.co.uk

Jérémy Sitbon
Chief Robotics Engineer

Jérémy leads the ecoSUB Robotics Design and Development group and joined the team in 2015 after graduating from the Engineering School Polytech Paris-UPMC, part of Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris, France), with a major in Robotics Engineering, where he undertook an internship with the French Defense Procurement working on micro-UAV vision systems.

Jérémy has overall responsibility for all technical aspects of ecoSUB AUVs, with special responsibility for software.

Jérémy is based at our R&D facility at the Marine Robotics Innovation Centre located within the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton

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T: +442380591509 
​E: alex@planet-ocean.co.uk

Alex Downer
Robotics Engineer - Marine Robotics Systems

Alex graduated from Southampton Solent University with a degree in Electronics Engineering, and also has extensive software experience. Alex works exclusively on our ecoSUB range of micro AUV systems.

Alex has been the primary developer of the ecoSUB HERMES C3 (Command Control & Communications) System, enabling improved connectivity and communications for ecoSUB AUVs.

Alex is based at our R&D facility at the Marine Robotics Innovation Centre located within the National Oceanography Centre Southampton.

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T: +442380591509 
​E: ayana@planet-ocean.co.uk

Ayana Benyon-Marno
Junior Robotics Engineer - Marine Robotics Systems

Ayana graduated from Plymouth University in 2019 with a degree in Robotics Engineering.
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Ayana works on our ecoSUB range of AUV’s, with special responsibility for the integration of new sensors.

Ayana is based at our R&D facility at the Marine Robotics Innovation Centre located within the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

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The whole team...

Developing ecoSUB AUVs has been a huge collaborative effort involving many partners from a wide range of organisations, notably National Oceanography Center, but also other academic and research institutes, companies and organisations.  We would love to recognise everyone and apologies to anyone missed off the list.  Acknowledgments below:

Key sub-contractors:
​Mark Chalmers  -  ​​Alan Gould  -  Pete Hanley  -  Franck Sitbon

Everyone else:
Edwin Anarcaya  -  Richard Austin-Berry  -  Steven Booth  -  Pete Bromley  -  James Burris  -  David Burton  -  Peter Collinson  -  Surya Dinesh  -  Andy Culbreath  -  Jon Downes  -  Kevin Edwards  -  Davide Fenucci  -  James Fishwick  -  Maaten Furlong  -  David Goldsmith  -  Peter Goss  -  Naomi Gold  -  -  David Graham  -  Catherine Harris  -  Julie Herring  -  Rand Ismaeel  -  Phil Johnson  -  John Koegler  -  Den Lakin  -  Nathan Lawrence  -  Artur Lidtke  -  Nick Linton  -  Joe Little  -  Tom Lowndes  -  Hugh Maclean  -  Graeme McGhee  -  Kay McGuinness  -  Dennis Meyer  -  Andrew Morris  -  Marcus Muller  -  Andrea Munafo  -  Jeff Neasham  -  Jay Nicholson  -  Josh Nicholson  -  Alex Phillips  -  Ella Richards  -  Mark Rios  -  Danny Robinson  -  Oliver Skisland  -  Nick Smedley  -  András Sóbester  -  Carole Sloane  -  Graham Sloane  -  Shawn Taggart  -  Rob Templeton  -  Aidan Thorn  -  Sebastian Thune  -  Nick Townsend  -  Mark Wood  -  Russ Wynn  -  Robin Yellow  -  Smart Sound Plymouth Team  -  Breaking the Surface Team, Croatia

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Follow this link to find out more about our Advisory Board, supporting the work of the ecoSUB Robotics team