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SFB USA Team:
SFB Executive Director:
Captain Dieter K. Rudolph, U.S. Navy (retired)
Dieter Rudolph is the Director for the Earth Island Institute project “Stop Fish Bombing SFB USA”. He has extensive experience working with Ocean focused NGOs, as President and CEO to address the impact of climate change. In the commercial sector he was responsible for business development and contract management in support of Army, Navy and Department of Energy customers. As U.S. Program Director for the Arctic Military Environmental Cooperation Program (AMEC) he supported the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Environmental Security. This $32M international program developed and demonstrated nonproliferation technologies focused on radiological and environmental issues in Russia in cooperation with the Ministries of Defense for Norway, United Kingdom, Russia and the United States. During his Navy Career, Captain Rudolph served as Deputy Oceanographer of the Navy and as Commanding Officer of three Naval Oceanographic Commands. His awards include the Defense Superior Service Medal and two awards of the Legion of Merit.
Dr. Robert Showen - Director of SoundThinking™ Labs
Dr. Showen is SoundThinking’s (formerly ShotSpotter) founder and patent holder on the technology. With over three decades of acoustic and geophysics research experience, it was Dr. Showen’s initial vision of helping police curb gunfire and urban crime that caused him first to conceive of SoundThinking™.
Engineer, scientist, and teacher, Dr. Robert L. Showen attended San Jose State University, University of California at Berkeley, and Rice University. He obtained degrees in electrical engineering and space physics and won a fellowship to the Max Planck Institute. He has taught astronomy and physics at the University of Puerto Rico, performed experiments to heat the ionosphere at the world’s largest RADAR, participated in the development of over-the-horizon RADAR at SRI International, and studied the effects of lightning on the ionosphere.
Presently he is writing patents for SoundThinking™, pursuing technical developments especially involving acoustics, and working on “Stop Fish Bombing!” This is a collation seeking to end this destruction practice which is destroying the world’s tropical reefs. The technical effort will substitute the SoundThinking™ sensor microphones with hydrophones and allow location of the underwater blasts enabling marine police to suppress this all-too-common activity.
Clark Dunson - Director of Sensor Technology
Clark started his career at NASA in 1977 as a Payload Engineer working on mission designs for the Space Shuttle and Space Station programs. He wound his way through many launch pad operations and launches, and sought avenues to fight government waste at every turn. In 1985 he began teaching divers how to navigate the treacherous kelp beds of Northern California, and in 1991 he launched a career in scientific computer visualization building satellite simulators for commercial spacecraft such as Sirius, Globalstar, and Japan’s MT–SAT.
In 2003, Clark devoted himself to the pursuit of earthquake forecasting 1–4 weeks in advance of the big event, and published several papers on seismo-magnetic effects. He has developed embedded control software for systems deployed worldwide, and has led many product developments in analytical and political outreach for governmental and commercial entities.
In 2005 he was awarded the “Spot Beam Award” from the California Space Authority, and in 2013 the “Champions of Change” award from the White House. He lives in Northern California, and pursues the art of volleyball, rock climbing, and trying to impress his loved one Kathryn (and her cats Butters and Lil’P), with his culinary experiments in the kitchen.