Lavinio Gualdesi

Henry Perkins, Federico de Strobel, Lavinio Gualdesi; The Barny Sentinel trawl-resistant ADCP bottom mount: Design, testing, and application, IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. 25, pp. 430 - 436, October 2000.

Robert Tyce, Federico de Strobel, Vittorio Grandi, Lavinio Gualdesi; Trawl-safe profiler development at SACLANT centre for shallow water environmental assessment and real time modeling, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'00 Conference, pp. 99 - 104, September 2000.

Robert Tyce, Federico De Strobel, Vittorio Grandi, Lavinio Gualdesi; Shallow water expendable and trawler safe environmental profilers, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'99 Conference, pp. 1229 - 1233, September 1999.

Lavinio Gualdesi, Federico de Strobel, Diane E. di Massa; An automated instrument for testing and monitoring oceanographic mooring cables and ropes, Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS'96 Conference, pp. 327 - 331, September 1996.

F. de Strobel, T. S. Hopkins, L. Gualdesi; Deployment of an acoustic doppler current profiler using a low-drag subsurface multisensor flotation package: Design criteria and results, Proceedings of the IEEE Fourth Working Conference on Current Measurement, vol. 4, pp. 202 - 206, April 1990.


Lavinio Gualdesi graduated from the Naval Academy, Livorno, Italy, in 1967, and received the naval architect masters degree from the University of Trieste, Italy.

He has been a Commander in the Italian Navy, and as Technical Director of Intermarine, Sarzana, Italy, he contributed to the design of fiberglass mine-countermeasure vessels. As Head of the SACLANTCEN Ocean Engineering branch, he has worked on buoy technology, and towed body and underwater structure prototypes and their construction since 1982.