Deborah Callender is a marine environment physical scientist with the Naval Oceanographic Office. She has been in this position for nearly a decade, and brought to it her skills gained as a project and data manager, surveyor and geospatial analyst. In her current role, Ms. Callender manages sub-bottom profile studies for marine seafloor geology. She is the Executive Leadership Program Trainee for the U.S. Navy Senior Executive Service and a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Trainee. Ms. Callender is known for her editing and organization skills. Additionally, she has strong GI and communication skills.
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At the Naval Oceanographic Office, she is also a GIS project manager. This entails acquiring data and integration of seafloor geology, physical oceanography, meteorology, bathymetry, ice, shipping and fisheries and stringing them together for client specifications for navigation and safety. Additionally, she is a project manager for the Global Marine Environmental Library for integration of academic and published documents into databases interconnected to GIS data.