ABOUT US

Leveraging our skills and experience in remote sensing and operational oceanography we also provide real-time ocean current information to the oil and gas industry on world-side basis for oil drilling operations, redeployment of equipment, seismic surveys, and ship routing. Our products are designed to provide real-time detailed information on ocean conditions to maximize the operational efficiency and for risk abatement. Our experience suggests that seeing the ocean conditions directly from high resolution satellite data is usually more useful than using ocean models often derived from low resolution satellite data and unconfirmed statistical relationships of temperature, salinity and depth.

ROFFS™ is active in Homeland Security issues related to search and rescue and environmental science and monitoring issues. We provide real-time analyses related to the location and movements of specific water masses that may carry pollutants. Our expertise and reputation resulted in a contract as the “Independent Scientist” for the State of Florida Department of Environmental Protection Piney Point Phosphate Waste Water Dispersal Program (2003-2004). After hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005 we provided daily maps of the distribution of the coastal, potentially polluted waters that were used by numerous federal, state emergency management officials, resource managers, and oceanographers. In 2010 in response to the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon oil spill episode ROFFS™ produced a widely used daily Oil Oceanographic Analysis that provided maps and analyses on where the oil and water – oil- dispersant mix had moved and where it was likely to travel over the next 24 hours.

ROFFS™ will continue to provide search and rescue support and other environmental monitoring (chemicals, biota, and currents) to both government and private entities. We feel it is our civic duty to use our skill and experience to benefit society.

We remain active in both the scientific community, as well, as the fisheries resource management community locally, regionally, nationally and on an international basis. We have been a member of NASA’s Biodiversity & Ecological Forecasting Science Team since 2004 and actively participate in NASA’s Ocean Color Science Team.

We are also working on tarpon and bonefish research with the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust, billfish research with The Billfish Foundation, and with a host of researchers (including NASA, NOAA, and academia) related to the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON). ROFFS™ is an institutional host in the SECOORA. Dr. Roffer is an Associate member in the Florida Institute of Oceanography and a Member of the Florida Ocean Alliance. He is also an Adjunct Faculty at the Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Ocean Engineering and Sciences.