EDUCATION:

June 1992 - Dec. 1997  M.I.T / WHOI JOINT PROGRAM IN OCEANOGRAPHY    Woods Hole, MA.
 
 • Doctoral (Ph. D.) degree in Biological Oceanography
   - thesis: “Acoustic Classification of Zooplankton”
    - interdisciplinary between Biological Oceanography and Applied Ocean Science and Engineering
   - courses in Ocean Acoustics, Physical Oceanography, Zooplankton Ecology, Bio-Optical Oceanography

September 1985 - May 1990    UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO    Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
 
 • Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) degree in Systems Design Engineering (co-op program):
   - interdisciplinary program provided solid technical base in electrical and mechanical systems
   - focus on integrated systems design, analysis, and optimization.
 • Minor in Biology (10 courses)
   - emphasis in Marine / Fisheries Biology, Limnology, Population / Behavioural Ecology, Toxicology.
 • Cooperative Education Program (5 years) combined academic learning and work experience.

WORK EXPERIENCE:
 
Jan. 1998 - present POSTDOCTORAL INVESTIGATOR Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. Woods Hole, MA.
 
 • Advisor Heidi M. Sosik.
 
June 1992 - Dec. 1997 GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT MIT/WHOI Joint Program Woods Hole, MA.
 
 • Advisors Peter H. Wiebe (Biology) and Timothy K. Stanton (Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering).

Feb. 1996 - May. 1996  TEACHING ASSISTANT Sea Education Association Woods Hole, MA.

 • Professors Charles Lea and Paul Joyce.

June 1990 - June 1992 PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER Procter & Gamble Inc., North York, ON.

• Designed and executed a competitive product technical and consumer research program.
• Responsible for achieving management alignment to objectives, managing several concurrent projects, data analysis, and timely delivery of results in a rapidly changing business environment.

• Created design layout for special purpose rebreather diving apparatus (O2 diagnostics unit, bailout sled) for DCIEM (Defence and Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine), DND.
•  Developed specifications for magnetic testing of diving equipment at Energy, Mines and Resources.
•  Developed dive simulation program for testing various regulator settings and dive profiles.

• Designed and installed a fault diagnostic / reporting system for several key process interfaces using PLCs
• Responsible for equipment maintenance and monitoring - worked closely with tradesmen and line staff.

• Coordinated design team and conducted Design of Experiments (DOE) on truck paint film-thickness.
• Collected data / performed statistical analysis (ANOVA), reported in GM - DOE Symposium Proceedings.

• Designed specifications for an on-line employee dispatch and productivity reporting system.

• Performed acid digestion by ION Chromatography of air and water samples, and equipment maintenance.

Presentations:
Ocean Optics XIV Meeting (poster), Kailua-Kona, HI, November 1998.
Acoustical Society of America Mtg. Acoustics of Fisheries & Plankton (special session), Seattle WA, June 1998.
AGU/ASLO 1998 Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego CA, February 1998.
Acoustical Society of America Mtg. Acoustic Inversion of Fish & Plankton Ensembles, St. Louis MO, Nov. 1995.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Biology Department, Woods Hole MA, October 1995.
ICES International Symposium on Fish and Plankton Acoustics Aberdeen, Scotland, June 1995.
Invited talk, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ocean Engineering Acoustics Lab Cambridge MA, May 1995.

Intensive Courses:
- Participated in Ocean Optics and Radiative Transport in Atmosphere and Ocean course, 4-15 May 1998,
  offered as part of the Summer Course Series at Bigelow Labs, West Boothbay Harbor, ME.
- Instructor for Bioacoustical Oceanography Workshop III, Krill Acoustic Scattering Research Module,
   5 - 17 August 1996 University of California at Santa Cruz, CA.
- Teaching assistant for Bioacoustical Oceanography Workshop II, 1 - 25 August 1995 UCSC, CA.
- Participated in Bioacoustical Oceanography Workshop I, 18 July - 21 August 1993 Friday Harbor Labs,
   WA.: involved lectures, hands-on echosounder experience, cruises, data analysis, and a week-long
   acoustic experiment.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

Acoustical Society of America, ASLO, AGU, Sigma Xi

OCEANOGRAPHIC CRUISES:

R/V Barnes, Puget Sound, July - August 1993
R/V Seward Johnson, Gulf of Maine, September 1993
R/V Oceanus, Georges Bank, September - October 1993
R/V Endeavor, Georges Bank, September 1994
R/V John Martin, Monterey Bay, August 1995
R/V Oceanus, Gulf of Maine / Georges Bank, October 1998
 

PUBLICATIONS:
 
Martin Traykovski, L.V. and H.M. Sosik.  1998. Optical classification of water types based on remotely-sensed
      ocean colour. Contributed Papers, Ocean Optics XIV, Kailua-Kona, HI, 10-13 November 1998.
Martin Traykovski, L.V., R.L. O’Driscoll, D.E. McGehee.  1998.  Effect of orientation on the broadband
      acoustic scattering of Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba): Implications for inverting zooplankton spectral acoustic
      signatures for angle of orientation. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 104(4): 2121-2135.
Martin Traykovski, L.V., T.K. Stanton, P.H. Wiebe, and J.F. Lynch.  1998. Model based Covariance
      Mean Variance Classification (CMVC) techniques: Algorithm development and application to the acoustic
      classification of zooplankton. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 23(4): 344-364.
Martin, L.V., T.K. Stanton, P.H. Wiebe, and J.F. Lynch.  1996. Acoustic classification of zooplankton.
      ICES Journal of Marine Science, 53: 217-224.
Demer, D.A. and L.V. Martin.  1995.  Zooplankton target strength: volumetric or areal dependence?
      Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 98(2): 1111-1118.
McGehee, D.E., R.L. O’Driscoll and L.V. Martin Traykovski.  in press.  Effects of orientation on acoustic
      scattering of Antarctic Krill at 120 kHz. Deep-Sea Research.
 

ABSTRACTS:

Martin Traykovski, L.V. and H.M. Sosik.  1998. Optical classification of water types based on remotely-sensed
      ocean colour. Ocean Optics XIV, November 1998 Kailua-Kona, HI.
Martin Traykovski, L.V., T.K. Stanton, P.H. Wiebe and J.F. Lynch.  1998. Covariance Mean Variance
      Classification (CMVC) techniques: Application to the acoustic classification of zooplankton.
      Acoustical Society of America Meeting, June 1998, Seattle, WA.
Martin Traykovski, L.V., T.K. Stanton, P.H. Wiebe, J.F. Lynch, R.L. O’Driscoll and D.E. McGehee.  1998.
      Acoustic classification of zooplankton: Inversion of broadband echoes from individuals for scatterer
      type and orientation. AGU/ASLO February 1998 Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, CA.
McGehee, D.E. and L.V. Martin.  1996. Target strengths of Antarctic Krill at 120 and 200 kHz.  AGU/
      ASLO February 1996 Ocean Sciences Meeting, San Diego, CA.
Martin, L.V., T.K. Stanton, P.H. Wiebe, and J.F. Lynch.  1995. Acoustic classification of zooplankton.
      ICES International Symposium on Fish and Plankton Acoustics, June 1995, Aberdeen, Scotland.
Martin, L.V., T.K. Stanton, P.H. Wiebe, and J.F. Lynch.  1995. Acoustic classification of zooplankton.
      Acoustical Society of America Meeting, November 1995, St. Louis, MO.
Demer, D.A. and L.V. Martin.  1994.  Zooplankton target strength: volumetric or areal dependence?
      Acoustical Society of America Meeting, June 1994, Cambridge, MA.
 
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