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Christopher Whitt, OES President As we start 2024, it is with great pleasure and gratitude that I reflect on our accomplishments together. The past year…
IEEE OES Distinguished Lecturer Talk – 17 June 2024
TITLE: Spatial resolution enhancement of microwave radiometer measurements Presented by: Prof. Ferdinando Nunziata, Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope. Organised by: OES…
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New YP-BOOST Laureates 2024-2025
Karen Renninger-Rojas & Gaultier Real, New YP-BOOST Laureates, Roberto Petroccia, OES Liaison for the YP-BOOST Program Introduction by Roberto Petroccia, OES Liaison for the YP-BOOST…
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VP OCEANS Report (March 2024)
Venugopalan Pallayil, Vice President for OCEANS (VPO) Hello OES Colleagues, It has been a very hectic time for me and so I shall keep this…
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Okinawa Marine Robot Competition 2023 Report
Yuta Matsuoka, Shun Fukushima, Keisuke Nishimuta, Yuto Nakazuru and Xu Ha, Kyushu Technological University Introduction The Okinawa Marine Robot Competition 2023[1] was held on November…
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Hong Kong IEEE CE/OES Joint Chapter runs the Young Engineer Conference (YE-23) at the Hong Kong University
Paul Hodgson, Hong Kong Chapter Chair and Dany Cho, OES Senior Member The IEEE CT/OES Joint Chapter in Hong Kong has been organizing Young Engineer…
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HK ROV 2023 – HK CTOES has another productive ROV year
Paul Hodgson, Hong Kong Chapter Chair and Dany Cho, OES Senior Member Another incredible ROV year for us in 2023. We trained ROV workshop instructors…
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The OES Ambassador Programme for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
Mal Heron, OES Ambassador Programme Coordinator In 2023 OES established an Ocean Decade Initiative and a part of that initiative was to set up an…
From the VP For Professional Activities (March 2024)
Elizabeth L. Creed, Vice President for Professional Activities 2023 was a good year for OES membership. We ended the year with just under 1900 members,…
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From the OES BEACON Editors (March 2024)
Harumi Sugimatsu and Robert Wernli OES has had a vision to increase the number of student and young professionals (YPs) in the society. Based on…
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Sebastian, the AUV Won First Place in Underwater Robot Convention in JAMSTEC 2023!
Hiroshi Kasuga, Lisa Hakataya, Hiroki Yokohata, The University of Tokyo Introduction On August 26 and 27, students and enthusiasts gathered at JAMSTEC headquarters in…
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NJORD CHALLENGE 2023 TECHNICAL REPORT-TEAM ARITRA
Mohammed Ibrahim M, Amar Nath Singh, Akash V, Rakshin Ramesh, IEEE OES Madras Chapter The Aritra Team of IIT Madras has won the Njord…
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IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society organizes student activities at IEEE Sri Lanka Section Congress
Suleman Mazhar, Chair of OES Student Activities and Co-Chair of Underwater Acoustics Technical Committee Spending winter in snowy Harbin, China is a pretty tough job.…
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OES Provides Gold Sponsorship to Region 9 Student Branch Regional Meeting (SBRM) 2023
From OES VPPA The Region 9 SBRM 2023, held in Cartegena, Colombia October 29 – 31, 2023, was a high energy, activities packed event. Over…
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The Experience from the Global Members of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society-Student Branch Chapters at the OCEANS 2023 Gulf Coast Conference
Ardian Rizal, Ali Emre Koruk, Mujeeb Abdulfatai, Nathan Fourniol, Jhon Bermudez and Atlant Correa, OES SBC members OES invited the OES members of Student Branch…
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Member Highlights
Contact the editors if you have items of interest for the society Close Encounter of a Whale Shark Harumi Sugimatsu, BEACON Editor-in-Chief, AdCom member…
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OCEANS 2023 Gulf Coast: Memory of A Lifetime
Shihab Hossain Saran, OCEANS 2023 Gulf Coast SPC First Prize Winner Participating in the Student Poster Competition at the OCEANS 2023 Gulf Coast conference was…
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The Student Poster Competition at OCEANS 2023 Gulf Coast
Dr. Shyam Madhusudhana, OES Student Poster Competition Chair Col. Normal Miller conceived and brought to life the esteemed Student Poster Competition (SPC) during the 1989…
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Who’s who in the IEEE OES (December 2023)
Gabriele Ferri, IEEE Senior Member, 2023 IEEE OES Distinguished Technical Achievement Award, OES AdCom member 2024-2026 The apple does not fall far from the tree,…
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OCEANS 2023 Gulf Coast Report
Craig Peterson, Co-Chair OCEANS 2023 Gulf Coast, Kenneth Sharp, TPC Co-Chair of OCEANS 2023 Gulf Coast OCEANS 2023- Gulf Coast, “Blue Economy: Locally Sourced, Globally…
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A Blast from the Past! . . . Your AdCom at Work
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief and Photographer Stan Chamberlain When most of us attend an OCEANS conference, we don’t see what goes on behind the…
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IEEE MetroSea 2023
Sebastiano d’Amico, Pasquale Daponte and Maurizio Migliaccio IEEE MetroSea 2023 was the first true international edition of the IEEE MetroSea conferences series, and it was…
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Robotics for Asset Maintenance and Inspection (RAMI) 2023 competition
Gabriele Ferri1, Alessandro Faggiani2, Tommaso Fabbri2, Fausto Ferreira3 1RAMI 2023 Technical Director 2RAMI2023 Deputy Technical Director 3VP Workshops & Symposia NATO-STO Centre for Maritime Research…
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Cost efficient, scalable, practical and innovative ocean observing technologies for ‘the science we need for the oceans we want – Panel discussion
Venugopalan Pallayil, Vice President for OCEANS (VPO) The IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES), in collaboration with the Ocean Decade Technology Innovation Working Group (TIWG), organized…
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Technology Committee on Ocean Sustainable Energy Systems (OSES) Report
Bill Wilson, Chair of Ocean Sustainable Energy Systems (OSES) The Ocean Sustainable Energy Systems (OSES) Technology Committee supports the development and deployment of fully sustainable…