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 to bring keynote speakers, IEEE OES has been, and is, involved in several events as a co-sponsor.
Thus, since the beginning of 2018, IEEE OES has been co-sponsor of 9 events taking place all over the world and allowing sharing knowledge about fields of interest linked to the ocean’s understanding and exploration:
Baltic International Symposium—June 2018, Klaipeda, Lithuania
This 7th IEEE/OES Baltic Symposium “Clean and Safe Baltic Sea and Energy Security for the Baltic countries” has been hosted by Klaipeda University and Baltic Valley Association.
The program has included plenary talks by experienced lecturers, oral and poster presentations, round table discussions, and a field trip to the UNESCO Natural Heritage Site—Curonian Spit. Basic topics for the Symposium have been Energy Security and Independence, Hazard Planning and Mitigation, Handling of the Extensive Ammunition and Ordinance that have been disposed of in the Baltic Sea and Ecosystems and Socio-Economic Impacts.
International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)—June 2018, Cairns, Australia
This 27th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics has provided a forum for discussions and presentations of advancements in knowledge, new methods and technologies relevant to industrial electronics, along with their applications and future developments.
Several current and upcoming frontier technologies, innovative solutions, research results, as well as enterprises related to industrial electronics and their applications, have been presented.
Offshore Energy and Storage (OSES 2018)—July 2018,
University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
OSES2018 has expanded its lead in the sustainable advancement of integrated coastal/offshore energy systems. In its 5th and largest iteration, OSES2018 Ningbo has built on the well-known and expanding OSES Event legacy established in Windsor, Edinburgh, Malta, and Cape Cod. Leading industrial, policy, and academic professionals have converged to challenge convention. Offshore Energy Generation and Storage Technology, Environmental Integration, Policy, and Expanding Global Markets are a priority. Cleaner and smarter energy systems mean sustainable economic growth. Offshore Energy and Storage capitalizes on the tremendous resource opportunities associated with coastal regions. Over half the world lives near the coast. Its energy should too. Such topics were the purpose of OSES, which has become, since its inception in 2014, the leading annual forum for the revelation and examination of new thinking in the space of offshore energy systems.
Ucomms—August 2018, Lerici, Italy
The missionof the UComms conference series is to promote the development of a deep understanding of the propagation of communication signalsunderwaterand the performance of higher layer protocols with the objective of supporting the intelligent choice of network-wide standards, as a foundation for interoperability.
UComms’18 was the fourth conference of the series organised by the NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) and was open to scientists and engineers involved in research, development, implementation and use of underwater communication systems.
The conference topics have covered the full range of interests from physical understanding of the communication channels (acoustic optical, radio) through to network protocols and experimentation.
IEEE Antarctic and Southern Ocean Forum—for Engineering, Science and Technology (ASOF-fest)—August 2018, Hobart, Australia
This forum, jointly organized by IEEE OES and IEEE GRSS, is an IEEE TAB initiative. ASOF has consisted of a single stream with encouragement for discussion and questions.
The topics, developed during this forum and related to the Extreme Conditions, have included Autonomous Observing; Observation Technologies, Sustained measurements, Biology and Biomass; Data Science and Science challenges.
Doppler Oceanography from Space (DOfS)—October 2018, Brest, France
This Doppler Oceanography from Space workshop has been hosted by the Laboratory for Ocean Physics and Satellite remote sensing in Brest, France and has been held during the Sea Tech Week 2018.
Satellite missions that measure surface velocities using Doppler radars are opening new perspectives for the monitoring and analysis of oceans, including sea ice, with a direct measurement of currents, winds and waves. From past and existing missions (Envisat, Sentinel 1) that are limited to a fixed line of sight component and sparse/partial coverage of the oceans, to future at different stages of planning and proposal (SKIM, WaCM, SEASTAR), a vast variety of instrument designs and signal processing steps are possible.
This workshop has brought together instrument and processing experts with the ocean science community to address a wide range of topics that will feed into the processing and design of existing and future missions.
Technologies for Observing and Monitoring Plastics in the Oceans — November 2018, Brest, France
Plastics in the oceans pose a mounting existential threat to life in the oceans and on land, including human life, and technologies to observe, measure and monitor the flow of plastics into, and within, the oceans are urgently needed in support of mitigating the threat.
This workshop has brought together stakeholders engaged in assessing and reducing the impacts of plastics in the ocean, experts assessing the sources of plastics in the ocean, and scientists and developers focusing on existing and new observation technologies to detect and quantify plastics in the ocean. The meeting has aimed for a joint understanding of the challenge, including the impacts of plastics on life in the ocean and on land. The plastics life-cycle, when in the ocean, has been at the center of the challenge for developing a conceptual model which will then be used to look at different socio-economic and environmental scenarios.
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Symposium (AUV)—November 2018, Porto, Portugal
Every two years the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (IEEE OES) sponsors a collaborative symposium to bring together those working in the field of autonomous underwater vehicles.
In 2018, this diverse group from around the world has met in Porto, Portugal at the University of Porto for AUV 2018.
This symposium has covered topics from vehicles to extreme environments, exploring software development; multi-vehicle; mission planning; navigation, localization and control; applications (mapping, oceanography …).
Underwater System Technology: Theory and Applications (USYS ’18)— December 2018, Wuhan, China
This 8th international conference has been held in Wuhan, China in December 2018. This conference aims to provide a platform for researchers, scientists, engineers, academicians, as well as industrial professionals from all over the world, to share, discuss and disseminate their current research and development activities and experiences related to the field of underwater system technology, including relevant theories as well as applications.
USYS ’18 has focused on exploring new technologies and approaches utilizing the vast resources of the oceans, developing new engineering strategies for the preservation of the oceans eco-system, as well as providing a specialized forum for discussing the future of underwater system technology.
For the upcoming months, 3 workshops will be co-sponsored:
Currents, Waves, Turbulence Measurement and Applications Workshop (CWTMA)—March 10–13, 2019, San Diego, California
Objectives of this 12th CWTMA Workshop are to provide the ocean community with a forum for technical information exchange and to promote coordination among those concerned with measuring current, waves and turbulence. The goal is to ensure that the CWTMA Workshop remains the “go-to” forum for people who need to know how to measure ocean motions and how to translate those measurements into meaningful information.
The scopes of this workshop are: development of sensors for measuring currents, waves, turbulence; use of these sensors to study transport, coastal erosion, wave climate, and currents that affect marine operations. New technologies to make flow and wave observations, such as radar remote sensing, correlation sonar, drifters, and satellite observation, are included.
It is too late to submit an abstract, but it is not too late to register!
Underwater Technology (UT ’19)—April 16–19, 2019, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
UT ’19 Kaohsiung, which will be hosted by five organizers and institutes: IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (IEEE/OES), IEEE/OES Japan Chapter, IEEE/OES Taipei, Taiwan Chapter, Taiwan Ocean Research Institute, and National Sun Yat-sen University. The symposium will be held from 16–19 April 2019 at National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) in Kaohsiung, the third largest city in Taiwan.
The UT symposium has had a long history of success and has provided excellent networking opportunities for all involved and we warmly invite you to attend this future UT event, and possibly join a committee to host a future Underwater Technology workshop or symposium.
It is too late to submit an abstract, but it is not too late to register!
Offshore Energy and Storage (OSES 2019)—July 10–12, 2019, Brest, France
OSES2019 heads west to Brest, France, for its 6th demonstration of leading innovation in offshore energy systems integration. Building on the legacy that snowballed from Windsor, to Edinburgh, Malta, Cape Cod, and most recently, Ningbo; the “OSES Effect” continues to expand its global sphere of influence. The OSES Community is a warmly-linked, international group that is expanding at an accelerating rate. Now partnered with the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES), our inclusive reach has extended even further. The benefits of OSES event attendance are realized immediately in the connection to concepts and colleagues that are driving the leading edge of offshore energy integration. However, the most strategic value of your involvement with OSES is the energizing and enduring relationships that are incubated at our events. Come see what people are talking about.
OSES2019 drives a confluence of leading industrial, policy, and academic professionals to challenge convention. Offshore Energy Generation and Storage Technology, Environmental Integration, Policy, and Expanding Global Markets will be tackled at this event. Cleaner and smarter energy systems mean sustainable economic growth. Offshore Energy and Storage capitalizes on the tremendous resource opportunities associated with coastal regions. Over half the world lives near the coast. Its energy should too.
April 7, 2019: deadline for abstract submission;
April 26, 2019: acceptance notification;
June 8, 2019: deadline for registration and full research paper submission.
Do not forget IEEE OES exists to serve you, but only your participation in events can allow the society to fulfill its mission!
Suleman Mazhar has been working as a professor in Information & Communication Engineering at Harbin Engineering University (China) since July 2019. He did PhD from Tokyo University (Japan) and postdoctorate from Georgetown University (Washington DC, USA). He had BS-CS from FAST-NUCES (Lahore) and MS from GIK Institute (Pakistan). He is TYSP young scientist fellow (Ministry of Science & Technology China) and have won several research grants from international organizations such as DAAD (Germany), ICIMOD (Nepal), NRPU (Higher Education Commission Pakistan), WWF (Worldwide Fund for Nature) Pakistan. His research focus is deep learning and signal processing applications for environmental monitoring, with particular focus on underwater acoustics, and marine mammal conservation. He is a reviewer for professional journals such as Journal of Acoustical Society (America), IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, IEEE Sensors Journal, Applied Acoustics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Peng Ren is a full professor with the College of Oceanography and Space Informatics, China University of Petroleum (East China). He is the director of Qingdao International Research Center for Intelligent Forecast and Detection of Oceanic Catastrophes. He received the K. M. Scott Prize from the University of York, the Natural Science award (first rank) from China Institute of Electronics, and the Eduardo Caianiello Best Student Paper Award from 18th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing as one co-author. He has served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
Mohd Rizal Arshad is a full professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia, where he specializes in ocean robotics technology and intelligent system. He received his B.Eng. in Medical Electronics & Instrumentation and PhD in Electronic Engineering from University of Liverpool, UK in 1994 and 1999, respectively. He completed his MSc. in Electronic Control Engineering from the University of Salford, UK in Dec 1995. He has supervised many postgraduate students and published extensively in local and international publications. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and was awarded IEEE OES Presidential Award in 2019.
Itzik Klein is an Assistant Professor, heading the Autonomous Navigation and Sensor Fusion Lab, at the Charney School of Marine Sciences, Hatter Department of Marine Technologies, University of Haifa. He is an IEEE Senior Member and a member of the IEEE Journal of Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation (J-ISPIN) Editorial Board. Prior to joining the University of Haifa, he worked at leading companies in Israel on navigation topics for more than 15 years. He has a wide range of experience in navigation systems and sensor fusion from both industry and academic perspectives. His research interests lie in the intersection of artificial intelligence with inertial sensing, sensor fusion, and autonomous underwater vehicles.
John R. Potter (IEEE M’94, SM’02, F’18) graduated in the previous century with a joint honours Mathematics and Physics Degree from Bristol and a PhD. in Glaciology and Oceanography from Cambridge, UK studying Antarctic ice mass balance, where he spent four consecutive summers. This work helped underscore the non-linear fragility of polar ice to climate change and led to him receiving the Polar Medal from Queen Elizabeth II in 1988.
Nick is a Visiting Fellow at the UK National Oceanographic Center, Southampton His nomination was endorsed by the Underwater Acoustics Technology Committee. He had worked as a Research Associate and Lecturer at University of Birmingham and has been working as a Research Scientist at the Applied Research Laboratory, University of Texas, Austin. He has also served as a Program Officer at the Office of Naval Research Global. He is a senior member of IEEE (OES) and a Fellow of Acoustical Society of America (ASA). Nick has also been serving as Assoc. Editor for IEEE JoE and JASA. He is widely acknowledged for his expertise are seabed acoustics, parametric array modeling, sonar beamformer, underwater signal processing.
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.