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Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief, photos by Stan Chamberlain Many of our OES members are, how shall I say it . . . “very experienced.”…
Welcome New and Reinstated Members (March 2020)
Australia Perri Quattrociocchi Andrew E Sayers C J Skinner Brazil J Coriolano Canada Chris Bayley Xinwei Chen Jasper Dupuis James Leo Hanlon Franz Heubach Anna…
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…
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From the OES BEACON Editors (March 2020)
Harumi Sugimatsu and Robert Wernli Welcome to the March 2019 issue of the Beacon. The latest changes to all our committees and volunteers can be…
Fred Maltz Obituary
With sadness, we again announce the passing of another of our long-time OES colleagues—Fred Maltz. Frederick (Fred) Harold Maltz of Mountain View, CA died on…
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Obituary on D. Richard “Dick” Blidberg
January 1, 1945 – September 1 2019 It is with sadness that we have recently lost another valuable member of our technical community with the…
Sonar performance quantification: report on two DLs
Kenneth G. Foote, IEEE Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA Introduction The author gave two seminars under the aegis of…
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Member Highlights (March 2020)
Contact the editors if you have items of interest for the society Doraemon Museum with a new OES member’s family in Japan Harumi Sugimatsu,…
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OES Society Awards (2019)
Photos by Stan Chamberlain The OES Society Awards Ceremony was held during the Wednesday Plenary at OCEANS 2019 Seattle. We are honored to introduce the…
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Women in Ocean Technology Panel at the Halifax WIE International Leadership Summit 2019
Ishtar Al-Tahir and Mae L. Seto The Society supported a Women in Ocean Technology Panel as part of the Halifax 2019 Women in Engineering International…
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Chapter news (December 2019)
Submit Chapter news to Beacon Co-Editors and OES Chapter Coordinator Providence Chapter – A Social Event and Two Technical Meetings Reported by David Leslie and…
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Technology Committee Reports
Submit TC reports to VPTA and Technology committee coordinator with cc to Beacon Co-Editors Polar Oceans Technology Committee; Linking the poles Arctic and Northern Ocean…
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OES Participation in OceanObs’19 16 – 20 September 2019
Mal Heron, Jay Pearlman and Christopher Whitt At the end of each decade, the ocean community comes together to look to the future. Where we…
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OSES 2019 BREST FRANCE, July 10-12 2019 at IMT Atlantique
“Energy Systems with Sea in their DNA” René Garello (IMT Atlantique / OES), life Fellow Context The OSES conference series addresses offshore energy systems –…
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The ‘Little Red Dot’ all set to host OCEANS 2020 Conference
Website: https://singapore20.oceansconference.org Venugopalan Pallayil, General Chair, OCEANS 2020 Singapore. Singapore, the Little Red Dot, with an area of 725 square km is home to…
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OCEANS 2019 Seattle – A Success
Fritz Stahr, Ph.D., Chair, OCEANS 2019 Seattle More than 1700 people attended OCEANS 2019 Seattle, October 27th through 31st, at the Washington State Convention…
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A Blast from the Past! . . . It’s All About Networking
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief, photos by Stan Chamberlain What are the OCEANS conferences all about? Networking!! The majority of us need to build our…
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The Student Poster Competition at OCEANS 2019 Seattle
Shyam Madhusudhana, OES Student Poster Competition Chair, Photos by Stan Chamberlain The Student Poster Competition (SPC) is a flagship event of the MTS/OES OCEANS conferences…
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OES Provides the “Innovation Award” at RoboSub Competition
Robert Wernli, IEEE OES supported the 22nd Annual International Robosub Competition that was held from 29 July to 4 August, 2019, at the TRANSDEC facility…
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Student Members, Don’t Miss Out On Your Opportunity to Attend OCEANS
Three enterprising students found a way to attend OCEANS 2018 Charleston, all travel expenses paid. Brandy Armstrong, OES Student Activities Chair Laura Hode, Uchenna…
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Who’s who in the OES (December 2019)
Jenhwa Guo, National Taiwan University (NTU) Jenhwa Guo was born in Taipei in 1958. He is a professor at the Department of Engineering Science and…
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Member Highlights (December 2019)
Contact the editors if you have items of interest for the society Long voyage without seeing the land Harumi Sugimatsu, BEACON newsletter Editor in…
Welcome New and Reinstated Members
ARGENTINA MARIA CELESTE CEBEDIO AUSTRALIA TIMOTHY CAIN STEPHANIE WARD AUSTRIA THOMAS BENJAMIN KNESL BRAZIL EUCLIDES LOURENCO CHUMA CANADA KENNETH A BOWERS JADE EMMA COFFEY KATIE…
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OES Thanks Outgoing AdCom Members (2019)
Photos by Stan Chamberlain Each year at the North American OCEANS conference, this year it was OCEANS 2019 Seattle, the OES thanks the outgoing members…
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Trip along the Ecuadorian coast
Lady Nicole Macas Mendez, current chair president of the first IEEE/OES chapter in Ecuador and an Oceanographic Engineering student. The coastal profile is an emblematic…