João Tasso de Figueiredo Borges de Sousa, LSTS—University of Porto, Chair The IEEE OES AUV Symposium is organized every other year to bring together those…
Meghan Savona, University of North Carolina Wilmington, and Todd Morrison, Woods Hole Group Since the founding of the Phytoplankton Club at First Flight High School…
Katsunori Mizuno, Beacon Associate Editor As part of the University of Tokyo’s Young Researchers Overseas Program, I am staying in Marseille, France, where the next…
Hanumant Singh, OES Member The OES Autonomous Marine Vehicle Awards ceremony was held during the AUV 2018 Symposium in Porto, Portugal on 8 November 2018.…
Dear OES Young Professional Members Frederic Maussang, OES Young Professionals Rep. At the beginning of this year, two candidates were chosen for the second year…
Brandy Armstrong, Student Activities Committee Chair Mentorship is now widely considered the key element leading to increased participation and retention of women and minorities in…
Jim Collins, Vice President of Professional Activities In recent years there has been a major shift in the focus of OES Professional Activities facilitated by…
Contact the Editors With Your Submissions Ferial El-Hawary is the recipient of 2017 “The Murugan Memorial Award” and 2018 “Life Member Appreciation Citation Award” by…
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…
Philippe Courmontagne, Vice President for W&S By the way of loans to support the startup of a conference/workshop/symposium, or grants to support student participation or…
Malcolm Heron, OES Vice President for Technical Activities We welcomed three newly appointed Distinguished Lecturers to the DL Roster on 1 January. DLs are appointed…
We have lost three OES colleagues in September 2018. Jean-Pierre Hermand, Edmund Sullivan and John E. Ehrenberg. The following obituaries for them were prepared by…
Koji Otsuka, Co-Chair of OTO’18 Executive Committee OCEANS’18 MTS/IEEE Kobe / Techno-Ocean 2018 (OTO’18) was held at Port Island in Kobe from May 28th through…
IEEE OES Japan Chapter organized the Distinguished Lecture (DL) program in June 2018 after the OCEANS’18 MTS/IEEE Kobe / Techno-Ocean 2018 as fellows. Ocean Acoustic…
Charlotte Tyson, First Flight High School, Kill Devil Hills, NC The First Flight Phyto-Finders is a group of high school students who collect and analyze…
Philippe Courmontagne, Chair of OCEANS 2019 Marseille 15 years after the last edition in France of the OCEANS Conference (OCEANS 2005 Brest), the historical and…
Stephen Wood, PH.D., P.E, Associate Professor in Ocean Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology Stephen Wood is one of our newest Administrative Committee members and is…
IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, Singapore Chapter Prepared by Hari Vishnu, Venugopalan Pallayil, Bharath Kalyan. with inputs from SAUVC committee The Singapore AUV Challenge (SAUVC) 2018…
Jim Collins, Vice President for Professional Activities When Bob Dylan first released this song and album in 1964, mass market digital computers were a novelty,…