Scott Olson Joins INSPIRE Environmental

INSPIRE Environmental (Newport, Rhode Island) has hired Scott Olson as Senior Field and Innovation Manager to enhance and expand the company’s underwater engineering capabilities.

Bringing more than three decades of experience in project management, systems engineering, and field operations, as well as a lifelong passion for marine exploration, Olson will play a lead role in cementing INSPIRE’s place as the nation’s leading provider of seafloor habitat monitoring for the emerging offshore energy industry.

“Scott Olson is a world class marine engineer, who has decades of experience as a submersible pilot, working with ROVs [remotely operated vehicles] and integrating marine systems,” says INSPIRE CEO Drew Carey. “He is the perfect fit for us.”

Olson’s arrival comes after several new hires at the company, a strategic move to expand and develop its expertise in fisheries habitats and marine mammals. Now, adding Olson’s expertise in underwater robotics and connections to leading innovation developers, INSPIRE plans to augment their SPI (Sediment Profile Imaging) camera technology to collect more data with higher efficiency and answer key questions about the impact of seafloor construction on the entire marine ecosystem.

INSPIRE Environmental has built a world class reputation for marine habitat monitoring, having captured and archived the largest collection of high-resolution seafloor profile images. They have already perfected protocols for pre- and post-construction surveys, and are looking to the future, developing industry-relevant long-term monitoring solutions.

INSPIRE Environmental is uniquely poised to seamlessly integrate with the needs of the emerging offshore renewable energy market.

Digital transformation opens doors to new data mining methodology

INSPIRE’s investment in infrastructure extends beyond hardware. Their meticulous response to the COVID-19 pandemic enabled the company to continue operations at almost full capacity throughout the 2020 field season, and a visionary investment in digital transformation has brought new opportunities for innovation.

“We are going to be able harness our data in more creative, and hopefully more efficient, ways,” says COO Jeanine Boyle. “In optimizing our internal systems and processes, we are laying the groundwork for machine learning and AI, and providing tools to support ongoing innovation.”