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Milica Stojanovic, IEEE Fellow, OES TCC Chair for Underwater Communication, Navigation and Positioning When I told my children that I was asked to write a…
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OES Society Awards (2020)
The OES Society Awards Ceremony was held on 6th October 2020 during the Global OCEANS 2020 Singapore -U.S. Gulf Coast. This time, unfortunately we could…
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Breaking the Surface in 2020
Anja Babić, Nadir Kapetanović, Igor Kvasić The IEEE OES University of Zagreb Student Branch Chapter (UNIZG SBC) was one of the co-organisers of this year’s…
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Global OCEANS 2020: Singapore-U.S. Gulf Coast – An Overview
Venugopalan Pallayil & Craig A. Peterson, General Co-Chairs The first ever virtual IEEE OES/MTS OCEANS conference, Global OCEANS 2020: Singapore-U.S. Gulf Coast, was held…
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Shore-based monitoring and quantification of vessel activities: University of Victoria Photographic Observation Study (POS).
Ben Morrow, M.Sc. candidate/OES student member With the support of IEEE OES Victoria Chapter, Ben Morrow, alongside researchers Norma Serra and Dr. Patrick O’Hara have…
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The Student Poster Competition at Global OCEANS 2020
Shyam Madhusudhana, OES Student Poster Competition Chair The Student Poster Competition (SPC) is a flagship event of the MTS/OES OCEANS conferences in which undergraduate and…
Awards for OES members (2020)
Contact the editors with your submission Jerry C. Carroll: For support and participation as Technical Program Committee/Technical Session Chair at the virtual OTC Asia 2020. …
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From the OES BEACON Editors (December 2020)
Harumi Sugimatsu and Robert Wernli Welcome to the December 2020 issue of the Beacon. I guess we could use as a theme the title of…
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Incredible Women in Engineering Programs at Virtual OCEANS 2020
Brandy Armstrong – VP Professional Activities I hope you were able to catch the first global (combined Singapore and Gulf Coast), virtual, OCEANS. This was…
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RoboSub Competition – OES Can Really Pick’em
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief At the 2019 RoboSub competition, OES gave the society’s Innovation Award to Team Inspiration, which was the only high school…
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Memorial University of Newfoundland Hosts International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Symposium
By: Jeff Green and Kathryn Lear (authors/editors) This Sep/Oct, Canada’s Memorial University of Newfoundland hosted the 2020 IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (IEEE OES) Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)…
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VPTA Column (December 2020)
Malcolm Heron, OES Vice President for Technical Activities The season for renewing OES/IEEE membership is nearly finished (but you can still do it – there…
Distinguished Lecturer Roster
Malcolm Heron, OES Vice President for Technical Activities Each year OES appoints three Distinguished Lecturers for a four-year term. Each Distinguished Lecturer is endorsed by…
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IEEE Journal of Engineering Early Access Papers (December 2020)
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…
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Chapter News (2020)
Submit Chapter news to Beacon Co-Editors and OES Chapter Coordinator Malaysia Chapter COVID-19 CSR Program FKEE UTHM Reported by Abdul Kadir & Khalid Is On…
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Sustaining Long-Term Ocean Observations
Christoph Waldmann, New Standards Standing Committee Chair, Senior Member IEEE OES Long-term observations are critical for using ocean resources responsibly and sustainably. Many nations are…
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Enhancing the Ocean Best Practices System for Global Ocean Observation, Data Management and Applications
Jay Pearlman, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Peter Pissierssens, Pauline Simpson Nearly 500 ocean experts and enthusiasts participated in September in a virtual workshop addressing ocean observations,…
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A Blast from the Past! . . . OES Exhibits, Ready & Waiting!
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief, photos by Stan Chamberlain OES Exhibits are always ready and waiting at all our conferences. Thanks to those who spend…
Member Highlights (December 2020)
Contact the editors if you have items of interest for the society Voyage with birds Harumi Sugimatsu, BEACON newsletter Editor-in-Chief We have a…
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The New Age of Oceanography
Miriam E. Lucero-Tenorio, César A. Enderica-Posligua, Gema M. Camacho- Viteri, Karen M. Mirabá-Peñafiel An important objective of the IEEE technical chapters is to transmit to…
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Professional Activities, Gone Virtual
Brandy Armstrong, VP of Professional Activities Remember all those grand plans we had back in the spring? A lot has changed since then… with the…
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Chapter News – September 2020
Submit Chapter news to Beacon Co-Editors and OES Chapter Coordinator Providence Chapter Reported by Cathy Ann Clark & David Leslie On March 5, 2020, the…
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Open Ocean Robotics ASV Winch: University of Victoria Student Capstone Project
Ryan Foxall, University of Victoria Open Ocean Robotics is a Victoria based start-up that designs, builds, and operates autonomous surface vessels (ASV) for scientific data…
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A Blast from the Past! . . . We Love Our Music!
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief, photos by Stan Chamberlain Another look back at our OCEANS conferences, where, no matter what country we’re in, we love…
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Member Highlights – September 2020
We introduce what OES members did to survive the stay-at-home period of the pandemic. Please enjoy! The following newspaper article, by Josh Bickford of the…