Semme Dijkstra is a clinical professor in the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space. He holds a Ph.D. in Ocean Mapping from the University of New Brunswick. His thesis work involved artifact removal from multibeam-sonar data and development of an echo-sounder processing and sediment classification system. He is a certified (Cat A) hydrographer from the Netherlands who has worked with the Dutch Navy, Royal Boskalis Westminster Dredging and QPS. From 1996 to 1999, he worked at the Alfred Wegner Institute in Germany where he tasked with mapping of the Weddell sea in Antarctica. His research focuses on applications of single-beam sonars for seafloor characterization, small object detection, and fisheries habitat mapping.
In 2008, Dr. Dijkstra was appointed a full-time instructor and he has taken a much larger role in teaching courses and in evaluating the overall CCOM curriculum. Dijkstra and JHC Co-Director Andy Armstrong prepared the successful IHO/FIG/ICA Category A Course program submissions of the center.
Courses Taught
- ESCI 771/871: Geodesy & Positioning OceanMap
- ESCI 870: Geodesy for Ocean Mapping
- ESCI 872: Appl Tools for Ocean Mapping
- ESCI 875: Adv Topics in Ocean Mapping
- ESCI 972: Hydrographic Field Course
- ESCI/OE 770/870: Geodesy for Ocean Mapping
- ESCI/OE 771/871/771/871: Geodesy & Positioning OceanMap
- ESCI/OE 871/771/871: Geodesy & Position Ocean Map
- ESCI/OE 874: Seabed Mapping
- ESCI/OE 875: Adv Topics in Ocean Mapping
- ESCI/OE 972: Hydrographic Field Course
- OE 771/871: Geodesy & Position Ocean Map
- OE 875: Adv Topics in Ocean Mapping
- OE 972: Hydrographic Field Course
Selected Publications
Dijkstra, S. J., Mayer, L. A., IEEE., & IEEE. (2000). TracEd: A remote acoustic seafloor characterization system for use with vertical incidence echosounders. In OCEANS 2000 MTS/IEEE - WHERE MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MEET, VOLS 1-3, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (pp. 1211-1217). Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/