SPEAKER: Kevin Hardy (founder Global Ocean Design, retired SIO, past MTS Chair).
TOPIC: San Diego’s Astounding History of Exploration. Nestled on the sandy shores of southern California, San Diego is renowned as a laid-back place with easy-going people. Yet somehow between the margaritas and surfboards, this sleepy little beach town, born in 1769, has been a powerhouse of invention and exploration. From the first European settlement in the state of California, to building famous flying machines that first flew across the Atlantic and first put an American into orbit, from developing a breakthrough undersea manned habitat, to developing technology to dive the deepest ocean trench, from predicting surf conditions at Normandy for the WWII’s D-Day landing, to helping advance basic understanding of the human genome, to designing cameras that presently orbit Mars and the moon. And much more! San Diego has made important contributions to the modern world, and continues to do so.
This talk was very well received as the Keynote Address at the 2019 San Diego National Engineers Week banquet, attended by nearly 400 engineers, students and guests.
BIO: Kevin Hardy retired from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in June 2011 after a career than spanned 40 years. He is twice past Chairman of the MTS-SD. He led a submarine team into the Guinness Book of Records. His unmanned vehicles have traveled into several ocean trenches, including the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench on a mission with James Cameron. He was part of the team that won the 2018 Conservation-X Prize. He remains active in deep ocean technology development and commercialization with his company, Global Ocean Design, located in Mira Mesa.
WHEN: May 23th, 2019 6-8 PM
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Pizza, salad and soft drink included with registration!
WHERE: American Legion Post #460
7815 Armour St, San Diego, CA 92111
MTS is an organization type: 501 (c) 3 Non-profit Organization