Champagne & Conversation: Solving The Big Three Challenges for the Workforce in the Future

Starts: Thu, Feb 23, 2023 5:30 PM CST
Ends: Thu, Feb 23, 2023 7:30 PM CST
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The Women in Industry Subcommittee (WIND) of the Society for Underwater Technology in the US (SUT-US) is pleased to invite you to the Champagne & Conversation Series: "Solving “The Big Three” Challenges for the Workforce of the Future ," where we will hear from Helen Stewart on offshore safety for those that don’t fit the mold.

The International Hydrographic Organization’s Empowering Women in Hydrography Project commenced in 2020 with the stated aim of improving the ability of hydrographic and offshore scientific industries to better achieve their goals by recruiting and retaining talented women to their workforces. We cannot meet this goal with a simplistic “add women and stir” mindset: increasing the likelihood that skilled, trained women will join the offshore workforce and stay with it requires all stakeholders to make systemic and structural changes to the status quo.

A major target of the Empowering Women in Hydrography Project is improving existing health and safety practices to better protect the health, safety, and dignity of women in the in the industry. We will start by introducing The Big Three health and safety challenges for women in the offshore workforce, explaining how these challenges developed, and what we as professionals and as members of the offshore industry can do to mitigate these problems. We will then present the 60-Day Challenge—what can YOUR organization do to improve the health, safety, and dignity of your women working offshore in 60 days?

The first glass of bubbly is on us with complimentary appetizers.

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Format: Hybrid (In-Person and Virtual)

Venue: Memorial Wine Cellar

Date & Time: Jan 19, 2023 5:30pm-7:30pm CT

Helen Stewart, M.Sc., CH #308
Hydrographer, Marine Asset Integrity Fugro

Helen Stewart is an NSPS/THSOA Certified Hydrographer and member of The Hydrographic Society of the USA. In her career spanning two decades, Helen has worked in many different aspects of hydrography from nautical charting, geophysical surveys, and deepwater AUV projects to subsea engineering surveys and pelagic oceanographic research. Helen recently pioneered a novel method of using multispectral satellite imagery to detect subsea hazards to navigation and threats to coastal and riverine structures.

Helen began working with the International Hydrographic Organization’s Empowering Women in Hydrography project in 2021 and is pleased to team up with other organizations with similar goals. She wishes to acknowledge the work of other women involved in the project, particularly members of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans – Canada and NOAA’s National Ocean Service. Helen has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Science from the University of Cape Town. Outside of work, she is a skilled seamstress, a long-distance cyclist, and the caretaker of a cat, a small urban orchard, way too many cactuses, and a pocket prairie located in Houston, USA.

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