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HK ROV 2022 – More workshops, another competition and lots of fun.
Raul Hodgson, Hong Cong Chapter Vice chair The Hong Kong IEEE CT/OES Joint Chapter was very busy in 2022 with their continued effort to instill…

The Robotics for Asset Maintenance and Inspection (RAMI) 2022
Gabriele Ferri1, Alessandro Faggiani2, Tommaso Fabbri2, and Fausto Ferreira3 1RAMI 2022 Technical Director 2RAMI2022 Deputy Technical Director 3RAMI 2022 Head Judge, VP Workshops & Symposia…

UNIZG SBC half-year activities report March – July 2022
Nadir Kapetanović, Anja Babić, Ivan Lončar, Igor Kvasić, Vladimir Slošić, Allan Badian Introduction It was a busy start of the year for members of the…

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Ray Toll, OCEANS 2022 Hampton Roads Co-Chair OCEANS 2022 Hampton Roads is just a few months away, and all the planning since 2017 is about…

OCEANS 2022 Chennai – A brief report
Nidhi Varshney on behalf of LoC, Photographers G. Pannerselvam and A. Ranjan Introduction OCEANS 2022 Chennai was the most sought-after event after long COVID…

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Brandy Armstrong, VP for Professional Activities and OTC Marketing IEEE OES Senior past president and OTC board director Jerry Carol, President Christopher Whitt and Vice…

2021 International Symposium on Ocean Technology (SYMPOL 2021)
Supriya M.H., Chairperson, SYMPOL 2021 Arun A. Balakrishnan, Coordinator, SYMPOL 2021 Introduction The 2021 International Symposium on Ocean Technology (SYMPOL 2021), addressing the Global Oceans,…

OCEANS 2021 San Diego – Porto Report 1
In Person component, San Diego Conference report Introduction The OCEANS 2021 San Diego portion of the hybrid conference, held at the Town and Country Resort,…

OCEANS 2021 San Diego – Porto Report 2
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Background on OCEANS 2022 Chennai
M. A. Atmanand, General Co-Chair of OCEANS 2022 Chennai As the OCEANS 2022 Chennai, one of the long-cherished aspirations of the entire OES communities in…

OCEANS 2022 Hampton Roads is on the East Coast Horizon
Conference Co-Chairs – Ray Toll, Laura Rogers, Daniel Sternlicht The OCEANS conference is returning to Hampton Roads after 10 years. The conference theme, Resilient Coasts,…

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…

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…

Underwater Technology 2021 Online (UT21 Online) – Underwater Video Competition, Tokyo, Japan, 2 March, 2021
Katsunori Mizuno, Technical Program Committee Co-Chair of UT21 Online, Beacon Associate Editor The IEEE OES International Symposium on Underwater Technology 2021 (UT21) was postponed till…

A Blast from the Past! . . . In Honor of Ferial
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief and Stan Chamberlain Ferial’s obituary is in this issue, but because of her amazing support of the IEEE and OES,…

The first UNIFI–UNIPI IEEE OES Joint Student Branch Chapter workshop
Alessandro Bucci, Matteo Bresciani The UNIFI–UNIPI IEEE OES Joint Student Branch Chapter is born in the first months of 2020 with the aim of increasing…

Welcome to OCEANS 2021: San Diego – Porto
San Diego Co-Chairs: Alan Kenny, Robert Wernli Porto Co-Chairs: António Pascoal, Eduardo Silva, João Borges de Sousa We’re going Hybrid! Rooted in the success of…

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…

The Student Poster Competition at Global OCEANS 2020
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A Blast from the Past! . . . We Love Our Music!
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A NEW OCEANS!!
John Watson, FIEEE, OES Vice-President for OCEANS In January of this year we were all looking forward to OCEANS in Singapore – registrations were made,…

A Toast to the Future! . . . Here’s to the Good Times Ahead!!
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief, photos by Stan Chamberlain With the uncertainty of the future and the concerns regarding the Coronavirus, we think that we…

Trajectory of the Team Clairvoyance
Kenichi Fujita, Yuya Hamamatsu and Hiroya Yatagai (The University of Tokyo) The “Team Clairvoyance”, the student team from the University of Tokyo for underwater robot…

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An IEEE OES event 16-18 December 2019-Brest, FRANCE René Garello, OES Junior Past President This workshop was sponsored by: THE WORKSHOP The workshop on “Marine…