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Brandy Armstrong, VP for Professional Activities The year is almost finished, where did the time go? I am already in the last few months of…
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From the Vice President for Workshops & Symposia (December 2021)
Fausto Ferreira, Vice President for W&S As the last issue in 2021, it is now time to make a balance of this year and look…
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OES Society Awards (2021)
Mal Heron and Marinna Martini Each year the Oceanic Engineering Society honors one OES member for outstanding service in furthering the objectives and activities of…
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Awards for OES members (December 2021)
Contact the editors with your submissions. Congratulations to Dr. Daniel D. Sternlicht for being selected as one of three recipients of the National Defense Industrial…
Request for Nominations for OES Awards 2022
Jerry Carroll, Chair of IEEE/OES Nominations and Appointments Committees Each year at the beginning of January, the Oceanic Engineering Society is proposing a call for…
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IEEE Corporate Innovations Award for 2022 goes to The ARGO Program
Mal Heron and Marinna Martini One of the highest awards in IEEE in 2022 goes to The Argo Program “For innovation in oceanography with global…
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New Technology Committee Chair and Co-Chairs
Shyam Madhusudhana, Coordinator of Technology Committees OES welcomes three new appointees to its slate of Technology Committees (TC) — Dr. Ferdinando Nunziata (Parthenope University of…
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Remember what it was like to travel to distant lands?
John R. Potter The pandemic has brought many changes, and some of us have found positive, as well and less desirable, impacts to working from…
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A Blast from the (recent) Past! . . . Face-to-Face Again!
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief and Photographer Stan Chamberlain In our last Blast, we took a look at the prior Singapore and Gulf Coast conferences,…
Did You Know – OCEANS Photo Gallery???
The photo gallery for the OCEANS conferences is on line in the OES website. There are decades of photos. Scan down the list, select a…
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Alvin Milestone Report
Albert J. Williams 3rd, IEEE Life Fellow IEEE launched the Milestone Program in 1983 and 218 Milestones have been designated as of September 2021. On…
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Chapter News (December 2021)
Submit Chapter news to Beacon Co-Editors and OES Chapter Coordinator Japan Chapter OES Japan Chapter Distinguished Lecture Program Reported by Harumi Sugimatsu, OES-J Vice Chair…
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Antarctic and Southern Ocean Forum – ASOF 2021 Workshop Summary
Andreas Marouchos – Chair, Polar Oceans Technology Committee On August 5-6th the Polar Ocean Technology Committee hosted the third polar technology workshop–the Antarctic and Southern…
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Member Highlights (September 2021)
Contact the editors if you have items of interest for the society Research Activities in Underwater and Land Robotics Takumi Matsuda, Meiji University, IEEE OES…
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Who’s Who In The IEEE OES (August 2021)
Bharath Kalyan, IEEE Senior Member, OES Singapore Chapter Chair I am one of those guys that talks less, has almost zero presence on social media…
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A Blast from the Past! . . . A Vision of the Future?
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief and Stan Chamberlain Well, thanks to the pandemic, our 2020 Singapore and Gulf Coast OCEANS conferences went virtual, and most…
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A Decade is Not Only a Matter of Time and Space
Atmanand M A, Jay Pearlman, Christopher Whitt, UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development This article discusses the UN Decade of Ocean Science for…
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Aberdeen University Engineers (and members of OES) develop state-of-the-art subsea holographic camera
Prof John Watson FIEEE, VP OCEANS Engineers at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, have developed one of the most advanced subsea holographic cameras in the…
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Jim Candy recognized by the JASA as a “seminal” author
The Journal of the Acoustic Society of America (JASA) reviews past papers to assess those that have had a significant impact on the science and…
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Webinar Series on Machine Learning and its applications to Oceanic Engineering: Talk by Dr. Shyam Madhusudhana
Dr. Gopu R. Potty, Chair, Technology Committee on Data Analytics, Integration and Modelling (DAIM) Dr. Shyam Madhusudhana gave a webinar on the topic Machine learning…
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AdCom Election Results (Class of 2022-2024)
The election results are in for the 2022-2024 Administrative Committee members. This year we had a great list of 12 candidates from around the world…
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IEEE OES distinguished lecture Series: 23, July 2021
Fusion reactors, Fuel Cells and Distributed Acoustic Sensing – What do they have in common and what might DAS now offer? John Potter, IEEE OES…
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Chapter News (September 2021)
Submit Chapter news to Beacon Co-Editors and OES Chapter Coordinator Italy Chapter Reported by Maurizio Migliaccio, Italian Chapter Chair A start The new ExCom has…
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Awards for OES members
Contact the editors with your submissions. Congratulations to Dr. Atmanand for the following award. Congratulations to Dr. M.A. Atmanand, distinguished OES member and General Chair…
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From the Journal Editor’s desk: IEEE Journal of Engineering Early Access Papers
Mandar Chitre, Journal Editor-in Chief Congratulations to the authors of our most recently approved papers for the IEEE JOE. The following papers were published as…