
Anja Babić, Nadir Kapetanović, Igor Kvasić The IEEE OES University of Zagreb Student Branch Chapter (UNIZG SBC) was one of the co-organisers of this year’s…

Global OCEANS 2020: Singapore-U.S. Gulf Coast – An Overview
Venugopalan Pallayil & Craig A. Peterson, General Co-Chairs The first ever virtual IEEE OES/MTS OCEANS conference, Global OCEANS 2020: Singapore-U.S. Gulf Coast, was held…

The Student Poster Competition at Global OCEANS 2020
Shyam Madhusudhana, OES Student Poster Competition Chair The Student Poster Competition (SPC) is a flagship event of the MTS/OES OCEANS conferences in which undergraduate and…

Memorial University of Newfoundland Hosts International Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Symposium
By: Jeff Green and Kathryn Lear (authors/editors) This Sep/Oct, Canada’s Memorial University of Newfoundland hosted the 2020 IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (IEEE OES) Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)…

Enhancing the Ocean Best Practices System for Global Ocean Observation, Data Management and Applications
Jay Pearlman, Pier Luigi Buttigieg, Peter Pissierssens, Pauline Simpson Nearly 500 ocean experts and enthusiasts participated in September in a virtual workshop addressing ocean observations,…

The New Age of Oceanography
Miriam E. Lucero-Tenorio, César A. Enderica-Posligua, Gema M. Camacho- Viteri, Karen M. Mirabá-Peñafiel An important objective of the IEEE technical chapters is to transmit to…
Welcome to COA 2021!
2021 IEEE/OES China Ocean Acoustics Conference – COA 2021, Harbin, China 27-30 May 2021 *The conference has been shifted from 2020 to 2021 due to…

A NEW OCEANS!!
John Watson, FIEEE, OES Vice-President for OCEANS In January of this year we were all looking forward to OCEANS in Singapore – registrations were made,…

A Toast to the Future! . . . Here’s to the Good Times Ahead!!
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief, photos by Stan Chamberlain With the uncertainty of the future and the concerns regarding the Coronavirus, we think that we…
Global OCEANS 2020: Singapore-U.S. Gulf Coast
The enduring COVID-19 pandemic does not allow the Marine Technology Society and the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, co-sponsors of OCEANS 2020 Singapore and OCEANS 2020…
Welcome to COA 2021!
2021 IEEE/OES China Ocean Acoustics Conference – COA 2021, Harbin, China 27-30 May 2021 *The conference has been shifted from 2020 to 2021 due to…
From the Vice President for W&S – A COVID-19 Update
Philippe Courmontagne, Vice President for W&S For 2020 and 2021, IEEE OES is involved in several upcoming events as a co-sponsor. But this year is…

New Year, New Member Opportunities
Brandy Armstrong, VP of Professional Activities It’s been a busy few months in my new role as VP of Professional Activities. Fortunately, I was able…

Marine Debris Indicators: What’s Next? – Workshop Summary Report
An IEEE OES event 16-18 December 2019-Brest, FRANCE René Garello, OES Junior Past President This workshop was sponsored by: THE WORKSHOP The workshop on “Marine…

From the Vice President for W&S
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…

The Science We Need for the Ocean We Want
Regional Planning Workshop for the Northern/Central Indian Ocean countries as well as ROPME sea area towards the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development…
Welcome to COA 2020!
2nd IEEE/OES China Ocean Acoustics Conference -COA 2020, Harbin, China, 27-30 July 2020 *Updated The 2016 IEEE / OES China Ocean Acoustics Symposium (COA2016), initiated…

Offshore Technology Conference
Jerry C. Carroll, Senior Past President, OTC Board of Directors Founded in 1969, the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) organizes the world’s foremost events for…

A Blast from the Past! . . . And a Look at Our Future
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief, photos by Stan Chamberlain Many of our OES members are, how shall I say it . . . “very experienced.”…

OCEANS 2019 Seattle – A Success
Fritz Stahr, Ph.D., Chair, OCEANS 2019 Seattle More than 1700 people attended OCEANS 2019 Seattle, October 27th through 31st, at the Washington State Convention…

Underwater Robot Convention in JAMSTEC 2019
Takumi Matsuda, The University of Tokyo, IEEE OES Japan Chapter Introduction Underwater Robot Convention 2019 was held in JAMSTEC (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and…

Who’s who in the OES (September 2019)
Ken Takagi, RECON Committee, Associate Editor of JOE I’m writing this article during a short summer vacation in my hometown of Osaka. I was…

OCEANS 2019 Marseille
Philippe Courmontagne, General Chair After fourteen years, the international biennial OCEANS conference came back to France. Indeed, for this 64th installment, this co-sponsored conference, by…
OceanObs’19 Conference, An Ocean of Opportunity
Jay Pearlman, Christopher Whitt and Mal Heron OceanObs is a conference held every 10 years to celebrate the successes of the past decade and to…

The European Robotics League (ERL) Emergency 2019
Gabriele Ferri1 and Fausto Ferreira2 1 ERL Emergency 2019 Director 2 OES AdCom 2018-2020 NATO-STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) has been organizing…