Rob Holman is a Professor in the College of Oceanography at Oregon State University.  He joined OSU in 1979 before working his way up the ranks and eventually becoming Emeritus in 2013.  He has had long and strong connections to the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Office of Naval Research and the US Geological Survey as well as with nearshore scientists from The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Italy.  He is mainly known for developing the Argus Program for making long-term measurements of the nearshore using cameras.