Bio

Jeffrey A Kinder 

Mr. Kinder served in the U.S. Coast Guard while studying electrical engineering at Southeastern Massachusetts Univ. (UMass-Dartmouth).  At the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, he helped in the development of the acoustic tomographic transceiver and, as lead technical advisor, participated in several trans-oceanic hydrographic cruises such as the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) & the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS). 

As Manager of the Coastal Ocean Science Technology & Engineering Lab at N.C. State Univ., Mr. Kinder’s group was responsible for coordinating all of the engineering, technical and logistical components of various research projects for university investigators.  Most notable were JGOFS, the NorthEast Water Polynia project, and the Ocean Margins Program, at the time the largest single array of oceanographic moorings and bottom platforms deployed. 

 Mr. Kinder spent time as a process control engineer in the biotechnology industry.  Primarily designing control system functionality, he was responsible for the entire sensor-based control architecture of cell culture and fermentation systems. 

Returning to NCSU, he was the principle engineer responsible in the design, fabrication and operation of the ocean buoy systems that comprise the observational component of the Carolinas Coastal Ocean Observation and Prediction System (CaroCOOPS), as well as the real-time ocean component of the Coastal Ocean Research and Monitoring Program (CORMP). 

Mr. Kinder has presented at the MTS/IEEE Oceans conference as well as the ONR/MTS Buoy Workshop.  He has also written for 'Sea Technology' magazine. 

Since 2002, he has been owner and general manager of Down East Instrumentation, LLC, an engineering firm specializing in sensor-based control systems.