Distinguished Service Award
The Distinguished Service Award is given to honor an individual IEEE member for outstanding contributions towards furthering the objectives of the Oceanic Engineering Society. The award consists of an appropriately worded certificate. Candidates for the Distinguished Service Award are nominated by the OES Awards Committee and must be approved by a majority of the elected members of the AdCom.
Request for Nominations for The Distinguished Service Award 2019
The IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society is hereby soliciting nominations for the society Distinguished Service Award to honor an individual IEEE member for outstanding contributions toward furthering the objectives of the Oceanic Engineering Society. Download the nomination form here. Nominations should be forwarded to the Awards Chair, Dr. René Garello at r.garello@ieee.org. The deadline for nominations is 1 July 2019.
Dr. René Garello, Chair
IEEE/OES Nominations and Appointments Committee
r.garello@ieee.org
2018 Distinguished Service Award
Jerry Carroll is presented the DSA for contributions to the governance of the Society as an elected member of the Administrative and Executive Committees, for service as Treasurer (2005 – 2008), President (2009 – 2012), Junior Past President (2013 – 2016), and Senior Past President (2016– 2018).
Jerry Carroll attended Oklahoma State University majoring in geophysics. Before graduating, he worked for Petty Geophysical Co. performing seismic survey, and for Phillips Petroleum Co. After graduating he began his career with NAVOCEANO in Washington D.C. During his career in Oceanography, he served as Special Advisor to the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, concerning Oceanography Programs from 1996 to 2008. While at the Naval Oceanographic Office, he was the Director of the Oceanography Department from 1981 to 1990 and Director of the Operations Directorate from 1991 to 1996, responsible for over 650 civilians, 100 military personnel and a fleet of oceanographic ships & aircraft. He developed a system at NAVOCEANO to find a major wreck off the Aleutian Islands that was set to create a nuclear explosion, but the threat was neutralized. His experience in the Navy Department was very valuable for involving Navy participation, organizing conferences and symposia for the OES, and expanding OES international participation. He was very influential in developing technical sessions with Navy participation for OES conferences and symposia.
He received numerous awards, including the Navy’s Meritorious Civilian Service Award and the Secretary of the Navy’s Hispanic 5 Point Award. He was very active in the Navy’s International Programs, establishing contacts in many countries. Mr. Carroll has been active in Professional Societies most of his career. As a member of the American Geophysical Union he helped organize Oceanographic Conferences in New Orleans. He is a Fellow in the Marine Technology Society and served as Vice-President for the MTS Southern Region. He was also a member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and GRSS. He was affiliated with the University of Mississippi as a Research Scientist and a member of the Gulf Coast Gas Hydrate Consortium.
As OES President and Treasurer of IEEE/OES, Jerry strengthened OES policy for controlling finances for conferences and symposia. He provided leadership and promoted new international symposia in South America, the Baltic and S.E. Asia.
Mr. Carroll is a Senior Past President of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society and served more than 10 years providing OES leadership in the administrative and executive committees. He served as OES Treasurer from 2005 to 2008 and as OES president from 2009 to 2012.
In his term of office, he pioneered initiating international programs in South America, and initiated a series of symposia in the Baltic region. Mr. Carroll was successful in getting prominent speakers from the Navy Department and financial support from the Office of Naval Research Global whose responsibility included providing conference support for foreign universities. In 2006, Mr. Carroll played a major role in inviting Russian participation, including bringing a prominent Russian oceanographic ship into Klaipeda Harbor; inviting ship tours and an onboard reception. This was the first time that a Russian ship from neighboring Kaliningrad was allowed entry in the port of Klaipeda. Russian participation enabled exchange of ocean technology which was previously limited. He brought about discussions of very sensitive and new topics on marine activities in the Baltic such as obtaining valuable information on World War II ordinance disposal and monitoring, and the introduction of the gas pipeline from Russia along the Baltic floor. The disposal of World War II ordinance, including unexploded mines bearing dangerous chemicals, posed serious environmental problems.
Mr. Carroll played a leading role in establishing symposia and workshops in South America. This represented the first OES penetration in South America. The symposia proved to be very successful. In Chile and Argentina, academic and naval organizations and their leadership were invited in responsible roles in symposia participation. Mr. Carroll played a leading role in planning and organizing the South American symposia and in particular, getting financial support. The symposia in Vina Del Mar, Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina were very successful in providing OES South American participation. Mr. Carroll also participated in launching a new series of Underwater Technology (UT) symposia in Tokyo Japan which later led to the UT symposia in Taiwan, China and India.
Recipients of the Distinguished Service Award of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society
| 2018 | Jerry Carroll |
| 2017 | Robert L. Wernli |
| 2016 | Harumi Sugimatsu |
| 2015 | Elizabeth Creed |
| 2014 | Diane DiMassa |
| 2013 | Robert Bannon |
| 2012 | Robert Spindel |
| 2011 | James Barbera |
| 2010 | Thomas Freud Wiener |
| 2009 | Christian de Moustier |
| 2008 | Archie Todd Morrison III |
| 2007 | Stephen M. Holt |
| 2006 | Rene Garello |
| 2005 | Claude P. Brancart |
| 2004 | William M. Carey |
| 2003 | Joseph Czika |
| 2002 | James S. Collins |
| 2001 | Claude P. Brancart |
| 2000 | Frederick H. Maltz |
| 1999 | Pierre Sabathé |
| 1998 | Norman D. Miller |
| 1997 | Ferial M. El-Hawary |
| 1996 | Glen N. Williams |
| 1995 | David E. Weissman |
| 1994 | Daniel L. Alspach |
| 1993 | Edward W. Early |
| 1992 | Gordon Raisbeck |
| 1991 | Frederick H. Fisher |
| 1990 | Anthony I. Eller |
| 1989 | Eric Herz |
| 1988 | Harold A. Sabbagh |
| 1987 | Stanley L. Ehrlich |
| 1986 | Stanley G. Chamberlain |
| 1985 | Joseph R. Vadus |
| 1984 | John C. Redmond |
| 1983 | Elmer P. Wheaton |
| 1982 | Arthur S. Westneat |
| 1981 | Lloyd Z. Maudlin |
| 1980 | Donald M. Bolle |
| 1979 | Richard M. Emberson |
| 1978 | Edward W. Early |
| 1977 | Calvin T. Swift |
| 1976 | Frank Snodgrass |
| 1975 | Arthur S. Westneat |
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.
Dr. Albert J. Williams 3rd (Sandy) received his AB in Physics from Swarthmore College in 1962 and his Ph.D. in physics from Johns Hopkins University in 1969. He spent his entire career at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, becoming Scientist Emeritus in 2002. A Fellow of IEEE, he received the Distinguished Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE/Oceanic Engineering Society in 2000 and is presently VP Technical Activities for OES. His research interests are microstructure and mixing, flow measurements, oceanographic instrumentation and measurements, sediment transport, and turbulent boundary layers. He designs and manufactures acoustic travel-time current meters for measurement of current, waves, and turbulence.
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.
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.
Dr. Marcia Isakson received a B.S. with a double major in engineering physics and mathematics from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1992. Upon graduation, she was awarded the Hertz Foundation Fellowship for the study of atomic and molecular physics. She earned her M.A. in atomic and molecular physics from The University of Texas at Austin in 1994. From 1994 to 1997, Isakson served as an officer in the United States Army at Fort Hood, Texas. In 1997, CPT Isakson was honorably discharged. In 2002, she earned a Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin. In the summer of 2001, she began work on acoustics at Applied Research Laboratories at the University of Texas at Austin.
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.
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.
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.
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.