IEEE OES social media outlets
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IEEEOES
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/IEEE_OES
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ieee_oes
- LinkedIn [Group]: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1519807/
- [New] YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6wjVnDY2-BmzdS8LzxrdHQ
1. IEEE OES Events Social Media Coverage
IEEE OES members can volunteer to do live coverage of an OES sponsored event/conference (such as OCEANS) on their unit’s existing social media pages (tagging OES) and/or through the official IEEE OES social media outlets.
1.1 Social Media Reporting Grants
If you are interested in being a social media reporter for an IEEE OES event, you can apply for a grant for registration of the relevant events. The grant covers 2-3 reporters per event.
NOTE: Due to COVID related challenges, the grant currently only covers virtual events and their registration only. Details for physical events will be updated as and when available.
Contact the VP Professional Activities Brandy Armstrong (vp-professional-activities@ieeeoes.org) to inquire about the event you would like to cover. The following are the types of events OES would like coverage for:
- OCEANS 2021, San Diego (https://sandiego21.oceansconference.org/)
- AUV competitions (e.g. SAUVC, ERL)
- Other OES sponsored Conferences & workshops
1.2 Requirements to receive funding for social media reporting at OES sponsored conferences/events
Prior to the event
- Ensure social media apps are installed on your laptop or smartphone (or other multimedia device) and confirm access to various social media channels.
- Review the schedule and write out a plan for what sessions, activities and interviews will be covered each day (requirements below)
- The plan should include how they will be incorporated into a Beacon or Earthzine article or video required to be submitted following the event.
- This plan must be submitted at least 2 weeks ahead of the event to the social media coordinator Manu Ignatius at manuignatius@gmail.com.
General
- Must be willing to be online and attend 70% or more of the event, take screenshots and short clips and post to social media during the event.
- Sessions: Reporters must cover at least 70% of sessions on each day (at least 4 post a day related to session coverage)
- Activities: Reporters must attend at least 2 social activities and post at least 2 posts/photos from each mixer, reception or other social activity attended. Each post must contain 40-100 characters of text.
- Exhibition: For events with a physical or virtual exhibition, reporters must do a short (1-5 min) “live” interview with a vendor covering their technology/cutting edge science at least once a day. While posting, use both vendor tags and OES tags.
- Members/participants: Conduct a short (1-5 min) “live” interview with an OES member or chapter (anyone who is actively involved is great) involved with the event and post in social media.
Competitions
- For a competition held in conjunction with a conference, reporters must interview 3 or more competitors, quote them (40-100 characters) with a photo of the competitors with their entry or do a short live interview (3-5 minutes).
- If the event being covered is solely a competition (no associated conference), reporters must interview at least 4 teams for each day that the competition is taking place and record live video of the final rounds of competition.
- Reporters must contact the teams ahead of time to set up interviews.
After the event
- Following the conference, submit an article to Beacon that is 1000 to 1600 words long and contains 5-10 pictures or submit a video compilation from the event that is 10 to 18 minutes long. Submissions could cover: new technology, cutting edge research, competitions associated with the conference, member involvement, or another topic with prior approval.
1.3 Rules for Official IEEE OES Social Media Posting
- Follow IEEE social media policy brand-experience.ieee.org/guidelines/digital/social-media/
- Use relevant hashtags and oes tags and hashtags
- OCEANS
- #OCEANS2019 – For all OCEANS conferences during the year 2019
- #OCEANSFanatic
- IEEE OES
- @IEEEOES – Facebook page
- @IEEE_OES – Twitter
- @Earthzine – Twitter and Facebook
- Use relevant chapter/branch, vendor and cooperator tags and hashtags
- OCEANS
2. Social Media Content Creation
The main goal of this campaign will be to promote awareness about IEEE OES and our activities to our current and potential members, and to drive the membership growth. Towards this goal, we have some activities planned for 2021 and we encourage our members to participate in the various opportunities and in return receive funding for respective chapters.
2.1 Planned activities for 2021
OES Podcast series
We plan to organize and publish IEEE OES Podcasts on topics ranging from the diversity in ocean engineering to personal experiences and future directions directly from the leaders. Our goal is to reach the wider audience and get new members. In addition, we hope to become a resource for various fields in ocean engineering that both members and non-members can easily access. The following document describes the protocol for organizing these podcasts as well as the structure for publishing these podcasts to reach a wider audience.
If you would like to support the podcast series, contact Rajat Mishra (rajat.mishra@u.nus.edu).
Testimonial video series
Have you ever wondered how the pioneers in our field started out? How they heard about the field or how they found their passion and motivation for the field of oceanic engineering and continue to do so? We bring you the testimonial video series that give you a glimpse to some of the pioneers’ professional lives. We made two of these in 2020 and expect to do more in 2021. Check them out on our YouTube channel.
If you would like to be part of the testimonial series of videos, contact Manu Ignatius (manuignatius@gmail.com).
2.2 Content Creation Opportunities for Members
We are always looking for new types of content that we can share through our various social media platforms. Learn and practice your image and video editing skills by creating great content and sharing it through our social media channels. This will also help you in contributing back to your local chapter. There are plenty of opportunities for volunteering as listed below:
A. Short video clips promoting IEEE OES
Work with our social media coordinator and VPPA to find various appropriate outlets (online magazines, webcasts, podcasts, etc.) to interview and provide insight into technical expertise while also highlighting OES membership and benefits. Earn $250 per completed opportunity, per Chapter, once a year.
Assistance in finding the potential candidates to interview, editing video and graphics etc. will be provided.
Requirement
- Reach out to us with a plan of the final content format to be published.
- The format can be of a testimonial video or a promotional article or a short interview.
B. Global Social Media updates
Work with our social media coordinator to update social media, create content, cover upcoming and current events, etc., and earn up to $500 per chapter, $5 per approved post (even if shared through multiple platforms).
Requirements
- Comply with various IEEE social media posting guidelines.
- Post assignments to include: adding calendar events (deadlines, seminars, etc.) , collecting and sharing global chapter news, sharing Earthzine and Beacon articles, sharing local chapter events, etc.
C. Virtual OES Membership drive/publicity event
Work with our VPPA to plan a local or regional virtual membership recruitment event and/or senior membership drive and earn $250 per chapter (once a year).
Requirements
- The drive must include an event in the format of a seminar or workshop or panel discussion with speakers relevant to the domain of oceanic engineering, and should be open to the public to attract potential members.
D. OES Virtual Speaker
Join Virtual Speakers Bureau at https://students.ieee.org/virtual-speakers/ to reach out to IEEE Student Branch Chapters, and work with them to publicize and give virtual presentations. Earn $100 per presentation, up to $500 per chapter.
E. Joint Section/Chapter activity with SBC
Plan a joint local or virtual event highlighting career discussion exchanges with students and the benefit of continued IEEE membership after graduation. Earn $250 per chapter (once a year) or SBC who organizes and publicizes the event.
F. Chapter/SBC WIE activity
Plan a local or virtual WIE event highlighting career discussion, common challenges WIE face, and the benefit of IEEE WIE membership. Earn $250 per chapter (once a year) or SBC who organizes and publicizes the event. This may be an event that is part of OCEANS too.
G. Earthzine Write Fee Invoicing (of non-members)
Initial (first year) incentive (up to $500 per chapter/SBC) to entice Chapters work to recruit members and non-members to write for Earthzine, invoice non-members locally through the chapter, maintained through collected money which supports chapter involvement/activities
2.3 Chapter Support for Participation in Content Creation
Chapter support will go to the associate chapter or student branch chapter bank account. It will be up to the chapter or student branch chapter as to how the support provided in return for content creation is used to benefit the chapter. Chapters and student branch chapters must set up a chapter bank account in order to receive support for content creation.
Pitch your exciting ideas (if they are not listed here), to VPPA, Brandy Armstrong, at vp-professional-activities@ieeeoes.org .
Social Media Initiative 2019-2021
The IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) had a social media initiative during 2019-2021 with the following goals:
- Increase visibility of IEEE OES through various social media outreach
- Increase membership and retain membership of existing members, students and young professionals.
- Generate new membership leads
- Increase member intimacy
- Improve member satisfaction
- Increase brand awareness (OCEANS)
- Increase media coverage
- Continued conversation before/after major events
- Build community
The initiative was broadly classified into two areas:
IEEE OES sponsored events coverage
General social media content creation towards the goals stated above
This was all done through IEEE OES volunteer members creating relevant social media content in the form of posts (textual), graphics (photos, banners), audio and video (testimonials, podcasts etc.).
NOTICE: The financial support for travel to events and for social media initiatives ended in 2021. It was based on the available funds and the activity of the units and IEEE travel guidelines and restrictions.
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.