
In Person component, San Diego Conference report Introduction The OCEANS 2021 San Diego portion of the hybrid conference, held at the Town and Country Resort,…

The Student Poster Competition at OCEANS 2021
Shyam Madhusudhana, OES Student Poster Competition Chair On-site photographs by Stan Chamberlain A flagship event of the MTS/OES OCEANS conferences is the Student Poster Competition…

Background on OCEANS 2022 Chennai
M. A. Atmanand, General Co-Chair of OCEANS 2022 Chennai As the OCEANS 2022 Chennai, one of the long-cherished aspirations of the entire OES communities in…

OCEANS 2022 Hampton Roads is on the East Coast Horizon
Conference Co-Chairs – Ray Toll, Laura Rogers, Daniel Sternlicht The OCEANS conference is returning to Hampton Roads after 10 years. The conference theme, Resilient Coasts,…

Breaking the Surface 2021
Nadir Kapetanović, Anja Babić, Ivan Lončar, Igor Kvasić, Barbara Arbanas, Matej Fabijanić, Jura Vuković, Maja Magdalenić, Goran Borković OCEANS 2021 activities In the week leading…

ARIEL, the AUV Won First Place in Underwater Robot Convention in JAMSTEC 2021!
Kazushi Yamamoto, Sehwa Chun, Yuki Sekimori, Chihaya Kawamra Introduction On August 28 and 29, students and enthusiasts gathered online to take part in the Underwater…

From the Vice President for Workshops & Symposia (December 2021)
Fausto Ferreira, Vice President for W&S As the last issue in 2021, it is now time to make a balance of this year and look…

A Blast from the (recent) Past! . . . Face-to-Face Again!
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief and Photographer Stan Chamberlain In our last Blast, we took a look at the prior Singapore and Gulf Coast conferences,…
Did You Know – OCEANS Photo Gallery???
The photo gallery for the OCEANS conferences is on line in the OES website. There are decades of photos. Scan down the list, select a…

Antarctic and Southern Ocean Forum – ASOF 2021 Workshop Summary
Andreas Marouchos – Chair, Polar Oceans Technology Committee On August 5-6th the Polar Ocean Technology Committee hosted the third polar technology workshop–the Antarctic and Southern…

A Blast from the Past! . . . A Vision of the Future?
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief and Stan Chamberlain Well, thanks to the pandemic, our 2020 Singapore and Gulf Coast OCEANS conferences went virtual, and most…

OCEANS Conferences 2021 – Where are we now?
John Watson, OES Vice-President for OCEANS So here we are, very close to OCEANS 2021 San Diego – Porto. Some features make this conference and…

From the OES BEACON Editors (September 2021)
Harumi Sugimatsu and Robert Wernli Welcome to the September 2021 issue of the Beacon. Although we seem to be living in a virtual world at…

Underwater Technology 2021 Online (UT21 Online) – Underwater Video Competition, Tokyo, Japan, 2 March, 2021
Katsunori Mizuno, Technical Program Committee Co-Chair of UT21 Online, Beacon Associate Editor The IEEE OES International Symposium on Underwater Technology 2021 (UT21) was postponed till…

From the Vice President for Workshops & Symposia (June 2021)
Fausto Ferreira, Vice President for W&S Since the last Beacon, a lot has been happening in my portfolio. While the COVID-19 pandemic still affects our…

A Blast from the Past! . . . In Honor of Ferial
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief and Stan Chamberlain Ferial’s obituary is in this issue, but because of her amazing support of the IEEE and OES,…

Report on Indian Ocean Blue Economy Summit
– Webinar on Blue Economy in the Indian Ocean region towards United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainability (2021-2030)- held on May 6, 2021…
OES Conference Calendar (2021-2022)
Stephanie Kemna, OES Calendar Coordinator OCEANS Global OCEANS 2021 San Diego – Porto In-Person & Virtual, September 20-23, 2021 Town & Country Resort, San Diego,…

The first UNIFI–UNIPI IEEE OES Joint Student Branch Chapter workshop
Alessandro Bucci, Matteo Bresciani The UNIFI–UNIPI IEEE OES Joint Student Branch Chapter is born in the first months of 2020 with the aim of increasing…

Welcome to OCEANS 2021: San Diego – Porto
San Diego Co-Chairs: Alan Kenny, Robert Wernli Porto Co-Chairs: António Pascoal, Eduardo Silva, João Borges de Sousa We’re going Hybrid! Rooted in the success of…

From the Vice President for Workshops & Symposia – a transition year
Fausto Ferreira, Vice President for W&S In December 2020, I was elected VP for W&S to complete the mandate of Philippe Courmontagne until the end…

IEEE OES SBC NAOME Poster Competition
Roberto Ravenna (IEEE OES SBC Vice president), Marvin Wright (IEEE OES SBC Webmaster), Olena Karpenko (IEEE OES SBC Chair), Andrea Coraddu (IEEE OES SBC Advisor)…

OCEANS Conferences 2021 – Where are we now?
John Watson, OES Vice-President for OCEANS Your VP OCEANS staying at home Well, here we are into February 2021 and we are still very much…

Breaking the Surface in 2020
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…