Conference and Workshop Calendar
September 2021
20sep(sep 20)12:24 pm23(sep 23)12:24 pmOCEANS 2021 San Diego - Porto :OCEANS
Event Details
Due to the pandemic, the OCEANS 2021 San Diego and OCEANS 2021 Porto conferences have combined into the hybrid OCEANS 2021: San Diego – Porto.
Event Details
Due to the pandemic, the OCEANS 2021 San Diego and OCEANS 2021 Porto conferences have combined into the hybrid OCEANS 2021: San Diego – Porto. Below are the letters from the general chairs of the two combined events.
San Diego Chairs
The OCEANS 2021 San Diego committee invites you to beautiful San Diego to participate in the world’s most prestigious, comprehensive, and diverse conference and exposition regarding our most critical resource—the oceans. Coordinated with the kickoff of the United Nations “Decade of Ocean Science (2021-2030), this will be the 8th time the OCEANS conference has come to San Diego, a venue that has consistently provided the largest and most successful OCEANS conferences ever.
OCEANS 2021 San Diego will expand significantly in scope, bringing together key international industry and government stakeholders, focusing on investment plans/strategies during the upcoming five years as well as emerging technologies, new science and research initiatives, and the latest in commercial products.
In addition to the excellent technical program for which OCEANS is well known, OCEANS 2021 San Diego will be structured with three key underlying categories of interest to all attendees:
- “InFocus” – on the latest in new and emerging technologies
- “InQuire” – on innovative research and science
- “InVest” – investment strategies and spending priorities from high-level stakeholders and officials from the U.S. and international governments, the oil and gas industry, Departments of Defense and Energy, local and federal regulatory agencies and a wide range of ocean industries.
The theme for OCEANS 2021 San Diego is “Sustaining our Oceans . . . Sustaining our Future,” reflecting on the critical nature and importance of our industry and its sustaining technologies. New Technical tracks will include Artificial Intelligence (AI), the great challenge of Data Management, Arctic and Antarctic exploration, and will present emerging technologies for ocean stewardship, food supply production and management, national defense, energy production, and overall management of the oceans and waterways. Assuring a successful conference will be committee members from the highly successful 2013 and 2003 San Diego OCEANS conferences along with new, influential and highly capable technical, academic and business leaders. Your OCEANS committee is working diligently to bring together influential buyers, investors, stakeholders, industry experts, and innovators from government agencies, industry, and academia.
The OCEANS conferences, jointly sponsored by the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (IEEE/OES) and the Marine Technology Society (MTS), attract thousands of attendees and hundreds of exhibitors every year. These international conferences are a major forum for scientists, engineers and those with an interest in the oceans to gather and exchange their knowledge and ideas regarding the future of the world’s oceans. In addition, OCEANS 2021 San Diego will include a two-night film festival and weekend golf tourney to kick-off the week’s activities that will also include a day of tutorials and a gala banquet.
We look forward to welcoming you to San Diego.
Alan Kenny Robert Wernli
Conference Chair Conference Co-Chair
Porto Chairs
Opening the Ocean Frontier: A New Age of Discoveries
Ocean science and technology for the benefit of humankind.
You are cordially invited to participate in the Global OCEANS 2021: San Diego – Porto virtual conference for lively presentations and discussions on oceans-related issues and to experience the magic of the oceans spanning centuries of maritime history. The Porto virtual conference will complement the in-person San Diego portion of this hybrid event, providing a method for everyone to participate regardless of any travel issues.
The innovative Global OCEANS 2021 Porto program will include technical sessions, invited sessions on specialized topics, plenary sessions, a student poster competition, outreach and media sessions, discussion panels, live feeds, and virtual exhibits. Global OCEANS 2021 Porto is all about connecting the world-wide community with the goals of opening the ocean frontier at the dawn of a new age of discoveries for the benefit of mankind. There will be new forms of participation, namely of young students and researchers from distant communities bordering the world’s oceans, thus reinforcing the global dimension of the event.
António Pascoal Eduardo Silva João Borges de Sousa
Co-chairs
Location
San Diego, California
February 2022
21feb(feb 21)12:26 pm24(feb 24)12:26 pmOCEANS 2022 Chennai :OCEANS
Location
Chennai, India
October 2022
17oct(oct 17)12:00 am21(oct 21)11:50 pmOCEANS 2022 Hampton Roads :OCEANS
Location
Hampton Roads, Virginia
June 2023
05jun(jun 5)1:54 pm08(jun 8)1:54 pmOCEANS 2023 Limerick :OCEANS
Location
Limerick, Ireland
April 2024
14apr(apr 14)1:58 pm18(apr 18)1:58 pmOCEANS 2024 Singapore :OCEANS
Location
Singapore
September 2024
23sep(sep 23)12:41 pm26(sep 26)12:41 pmOCEANS 2024 Halifax :OCEANS
Other Upcoming OCEANS conferences:
OCEANS 2023 Gulf Coast - Biloxi, Mississippi USA (October 2023)
July 2021
14jul(jul 14)12:00 am17(jul 17)11:59 pmCOA 2021 - China Ocean Acoustics (hybrid) :OES Event
Location
Harbin, China
August 2021
04aug(aug 4)2:35 pm06(aug 6)2:35 pmAntarctic and Southern Ocean Forum (ASOF) 2021 :OES Event
Location
Hobart, Australia
31aug(aug 31)12:00 am02sep(sep 2)11:59 pmUComms 2021 (Virtual Only) :OES Event
Event Details
The UComms conference series is focused on working towards a deep understanding of the propagation of communication signals underwater and the performance of necessary higher-level protocols with the objective of
Event Details
The UComms conference series is focused on working towards a deep understanding of the propagation of communication signals underwater and the performance of necessary higher-level protocols with the objective of supporting the intelligent choice of network-wide standards, as a foundation for interoperability.
Location
Lerici, Italy
September 2021
31aug(aug 31)12:00 am02sep(sep 2)11:59 pmUComms 2021 (Virtual Only) :OES Event
Event Details
The UComms conference series is focused on working towards a deep understanding of the propagation of communication signals underwater and the performance of necessary higher-level protocols with the objective of
Event Details
The UComms conference series is focused on working towards a deep understanding of the propagation of communication signals underwater and the performance of necessary higher-level protocols with the objective of supporting the intelligent choice of network-wide standards, as a foundation for interoperability.
Location
Lerici, Italy
26sep(sep 26)2:44 pm03oct(oct 3)2:44 pmBreaking the Surface (BTS) 2021 :OES Event
Location
Biograd na Moru, Croatia
October 2021
26sep(sep 26)2:44 pm03oct(oct 3)2:44 pmBreaking the Surface (BTS) 2021 :OES Event
Location
Biograd na Moru, Croatia
December 2021
09dec(dec 9)11:21 am11(dec 11)11:21 amSYMPOL 2021 :OES Event
Location
Ernakulam, INDIA
September 2022
March 2023
Additional upcoming events:
SAUVC, Singapore (postponed until 2022)
https://sauvc.org/
ERL-ER, La Spezia, Italy - virtual (date TBD)
https://sites.google.com/site/erlemergency2020laspezia/
August 2021
16aug(aug 16)12:00 am19(aug 19)11:59 pmOTC Houston 2021 (hybrid) :OTC
Event Details
Postponed to August The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Board of Directors has chosen to postpone the 2021 event to 16–19 August due to the ongoing challenges presented by COVID-19 and out
Event Details
Postponed to August
The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Board of Directors has chosen to postpone the 2021 event to 16–19 August due to the ongoing challenges presented by COVID-19 and out of the greatest care for the health and safety of our partners, attendees, exhibitors, staff, and community.
In the coming weeks, OTC will be communicating with authors, speakers, exhibitors, and partners to develop new in-person and virtual plans and ensure the conference continues to provide a platform for energy professionals to meet and exchange ideas.
By postponing OTC to the second half of 2021, we aim to preserve the significant work of the program committee and authors, as well as minimize the economic impact this decision has on businesses in Houston and throughout the industry.
We look forward to welcoming you to Houston in August 2021.
More information will be communicated as plans are finalized. Visit 2021.otcnet.org
The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) is where energy professionals meet to exchange ideas and opinions to advance scientific and technical knowledge for offshore resources and environmental matters.
Celebrating 50 years since 1969, OTC’s flagship conference is held annually at NRG Park (formerly Reliant Park) in Houston. OTC has expanded technically and globally with the Arctic Technology Conference, OTC Brasil, and OTC Asia.
OTC is sponsored by 13 industry organizations and societies, who work cooperatively to develop the technical program. OTC also has endorsing and supporting organizations.
Location
Houston, Texas, USA
March 2022
22mar(mar 22)2:30 pm25(mar 25)2:30 pmOTC Asia 2022 :OTC
Location
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
May 2022
October 2022
25oct(oct 25)12:00 am27(oct 27)11:59 pmOTC Brasil 2022 :OTC
Event Details
OTC Brasil has been held biennially in Rio de Janeiro since 2011. The conference is organized by the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) and Brazilian Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels Institute (IBP)
Event Details
OTC Brasil has been held biennially in Rio de Janeiro since 2011. The conference is organized by the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) and Brazilian Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels Institute (IBP) and supported by 13 engineering and scientific organizations who work cooperatively to develop the technical program.
OTC’s 13 sponsoring organizations use revenue from OTC and its regional events to help shape the future of the industry, funding scholarships and supporting scientific research.
Location
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
October 2021
26oct(oct 26)10:52 am28(oct 28)10:52 amMAST Europe 2021 :non-OES
Location
Toulon, FRANCE
February 2022
27feb(feb 27)2:20 pm04mar(mar 4)2:20 pmOcean Sciences 2022 :non-OES
Location
Honolulu, Hawaii
March 2022
27feb(feb 27)2:20 pm04mar(mar 4)2:20 pmOcean Sciences 2022 :non-OES
Location
Honolulu, Hawaii
Maurizio Migliaccio (M’91-SM’00-F’17) is Full professor of Electromagnetics at Università di Napoli Parthenope (Italy) and was Affiliated Full Professor at NOVA Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL (USA). He has been teaching Microwave Remote Sensing since 1994. He was visiting scientist at Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fur Lüft und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. He was member of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) scientific committee. He was member of the ASI CosmoSkyMed second generation panel. He was e-geos AdCom member. He was Italian delegate of the ESA PB-EO board. He was Member of South Africa Expert Review Panel for Space Exploration. He serves as reviewer for the UE, Italian Research Ministry (MIUR), NCST, Kazakhstan and Hong Kong Research board. He lectured in USA, Canada, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, Switzerland and Italy. He was Italian delegate at UE COST SMOS Mode Action. He is listed in the Italian Top Scientists. He is an IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing AE, International Journal of Remote Sensing AE, and was IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering AE Special Issue on Radar for Marine and Maritime Remote Sensing, IEEE JSTARS AE of the Special Issue on CosmoSKyMed, Member of the Indian Journal of Radio & Space Physics Editorial board. His main current scientific interests cover SAR sea oil slick and man-made target monitoring, remote sensing for marine and coastal applications, remote sensing for agriculture monitoring, polarimetry, inverse problems for resolution enhancement, reverberating chambers. He published about 160 peer-reviewed journal papers on remote sensing and applied electromagnetics.
He has developed various types of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and related application technologies including navigation methods, a new sensing method using a chemical sensor, precise seafloor mapping methods, a precise seabed positioning system with a resolution of a few centimeters, a new sensing system of the thickness of cobalt-rich crust; and more. He has shown, by using these technologies that AUVs are practicable and valuable tools for deep-sea exploration.
Donna Kocak has had an outstanding career in defense and scientific projects developing and applying solutions in subsea optics, imaging and robotics. She graduated with an M.Sc in Computer Science in 1997 from the University of Central Florida; an MBA in 2008 from the University of Florida; and M.Sc in Industrial Engineering in 2011 from the University of Central Florida. She is currently a Senior Scientist, Advanced Concepts Engineering, and Fellow at the Harris Corporation in Melbourne, Florida, where she has developed novel optical imaging and communication solutions for under-sea defense and scientific projects. Prior to 2008 Donna Kocak was Founder and President of Green Sky Imaging, LLC (GSI) who developed laser/video photogrammetry software for underwater inspection and survey. Her earlier career positions were with Naval Training Systems Center, Florida; Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Florida; eMerge Interactive; and the Advanced Technologies Group in Florida.
John Potter has a Joint Honours degree in Mathematics and Physics from Bristol University in the UK and a PhD in Glaciology and Oceanography from the University of Cambridge on research in the Antarctic, for which he was awarded the Polar Medal in 1988. John has worked on polar oceanography, underwater acoustics, ambient noise (including imaging), marine mammals, communications, IoUT, autonomous vehicles and strategic development. He has 40 years’ international experience working at the British Antarctic Survey in the UK, NATO in Italy, SIO in California, NUS in Singapore and most recently at NTNU in Norway. John is a Fellow of the IEEE and MTS, an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, IEEE OES Distinguished Lecturer, PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer & an International Fellow of the Explorer’s Club.
Dr. James V. Candy is the Chief Scientist for Engineering and former Director of the Center for Advanced Signal & Image Sciences at the University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Candy received a commission in the USAF in 1967 and was a Systems Engineer/Test Director from 1967 to 1971. He has been a Researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory since 1976 holding various positions including that of Project Engineer for Signal Processing and Thrust Area Leader for Signal and Control Engineering. Educationally, he received his B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Cincinnati and his M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville. He is a registered Control System Engineer in the state of California. He has been an Adjunct Professor at San Francisco State University, University of Santa Clara, and UC Berkeley, Extension teaching graduate courses in signal and image processing. He is an Adjunct Full-Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Candy is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and elected as a Life Member (Fellow) at the University of Cambridge (Clare Hall College). He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Phi Kappa Phi honorary societies. He was elected as a Distinguished Alumnus by the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Candy received the IEEE Distinguished Technical Achievement Award for the “development of model-based signal processing in ocean acoustics.” Dr. Candy was selected as a IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for oceanic signal processing as well as presenting an IEEE tutorial on advanced signal processing available through their video website courses. He was nominated for the prestigious Edward Teller Fellowship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Candy was awarded the Interdisciplinary Helmholtz-Rayleigh Silver Medal in Signal Processing/Underwater Acoustics by the Acoustical Society of America for his technical contributions. He has published over 225 journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports as well as written three texts in signal processing, “Signal Processing: the Model-Based Approach,” (McGraw-Hill, 1986), “Signal Processing: the Modern Approach,” (McGraw-Hill, 1988), “Model-Based Signal Processing,” (Wiley/IEEE Press, 2006) and “Bayesian Signal Processing: Classical, Modern and Particle Filtering” (Wiley/IEEE Press, 2009). He was the General Chairman of the inaugural 2006 IEEE Nonlinear Statistical Signal Processing Workshop held at the Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. He has presented a variety of short courses and tutorials sponsored by the IEEE and ASA in Applied Signal Processing, Spectral Estimation, Advanced Digital Signal Processing, Applied Model-Based Signal Processing, Applied Acoustical Signal Processing, Model-Based Ocean Acoustic Signal Processing and Bayesian Signal Processing for IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society/ASA. He has also presented short courses in Applied Model-Based Signal Processing for the SPIE Optical Society. He is currently the IEEE Chair of the Technical Committee on “Sonar Signal and Image Processing” and was the Chair of the ASA Technical Committee on “Signal Processing in Acoustics” as well as being an Associate Editor for Signal Processing of ASA (on-line JASAXL). He was recently nominated for the Vice Presidency of the ASA and elected as a member of the Administrative Committee of IEEE OES. His research interests include Bayesian estimation, identification, spatial estimation, signal and image processing, array signal processing, nonlinear signal processing, tomography, sonar/radar processing and biomedical applications.
Kenneth Foote is a Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The George Washington University in 1968, and a Ph.D. in Physics from Brown University in 1973. He was an engineer at Raytheon Company, 1968-1974; postdoctoral scholar at Loughborough University of Technology, 1974-1975; research fellow and substitute lecturer at the University of Bergen, 1975-1981. He began working at the Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, in 1979; joined the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1999. His general area of expertise is in underwater sound scattering, with applications to the quantification of fish, other aquatic organisms, and physical scatterers in the water column and on the seafloor. In developing and transitioning acoustic methods and instruments to operations at sea, he has worked from 77°N to 55°S.
René Garello, professor at Télécom Bretagne, Fellow IEEE, co-leader of the TOMS (Traitements, Observations et Méthodes Statistiques) research team, in Pôle CID of the UMR CNRS 3192 Lab-STICC.
Professor Mal Heron is Adjunct Professor in the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, and is CEO of Portmap Remote Ocean Sensing Pty Ltd. His PhD work in Auckland, New Zealand, was on radio-wave probing of the ionosphere, and that is reflected in his early ionospheric papers. He changed research fields to the scattering of HF radio waves from the ocean surface during the 1980s. Through the 1990s his research has broadened into oceanographic phenomena which can be studied by remote sensing, including HF radar and salinity mapping from airborne microwave radiometers . Throughout, there have been one-off papers where he has been involved in solving a problem in a cognate area like medical physics, and paleobiogeography. Occasionally, he has diverted into side-tracks like a burst of papers on the effect of bushfires on radio communications. His present project of the Australian Coastal Ocean Radar Network (ACORN) is about the development of new processing methods and applications of HF radar data to address oceanography problems. He is currently promoting the use of high resolution VHF ocean radars, based on the PortMap high resolution radar.
Hanu Singh graduated B.S. ECE and Computer Science (1989) from George Mason University and Ph.D. (1995) from MIT/Woods Hole.He led the development and commercialization of the Seabed AUV, nine of which are in operation at other universities and government laboratories around the world. He was technical lead for development and operations for Polar AUVs (Jaguar and Puma) and towed vehicles(Camper and Seasled), and the development and commercialization of the Jetyak ASVs, 18 of which are currently in use. He was involved in the development of UAS for polar and oceanographic applications, and high resolution multi-sensor acoustic and optical mapping with underwater vehicles on over 55 oceanographic cruises in support of physical oceanography, marine archaeology, biology, fisheries, coral reef studies, geology and geophysics and sea-ice studies. He is an accomplished Research Student advisor and has made strong collaborations across the US (including at MIT, SIO, Stanford, Columbia LDEO) and internationally including in the UK, Australia, Canada, Korea, Taiwan, China, Japan, India, Sweden and Norway. Hanu Singh is currently Chair of the IEEE Ocean Engineering Technology Committee on Autonomous Marine Systems with responsibilities that include organizing the biennial IEEE AUV Conference, 2008 onwards. Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2007-2011. Associate editor, Journal of Field Robotics 2012 onwards.
Milica Stojanovic graduated from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1988, and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, in 1991 and 1993. She was a Principal Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 2008 joined Northeastern University, where she is currently a Professor of electrical and computer engineering. She is also a Guest Investigator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Milica’s research interests include digital communications theory, statistical signal processing and wireless networks, and their applications to underwater acoustic systems. She has made pioneering contributions to underwater acoustic communications, and her work has been widely cited. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, and serves as an Associate Editor for its Journal of Oceanic Engineering (and in the past for Transactions on Signal Processing and Transactions on Vehicular Technology). She also serves on the Advisory Board of the IEEE Communication Letters, and chairs the IEEE Ocean Engineering Society’s Technical Committee for Underwater Communication, Navigation and Positioning. Milica is the recipient of the 2015 IEEE/OES Distinguished Technical Achievement Award.
Dr. Paul C. Hines was born and raised in Glace Bay, Cape Breton. From 1977-1981 he attended Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, graduating with a B.Sc. (Hon) in Engineering-Physics.