
John Watson, OES Vice-President for OCEANS When you read this, I will just be signing-off as your OES Vice-President for OCEANS (VPO). As we move…

OCEANS 2022 Hampton Roads and After
John Watson, OES Vice-President for OCEANS The OCEANS 2022 Hampton Roads (Virginia Beach Conference Center, 17-20 October 2022) conference is now almost upon us. You…

A Blast from the Past! . . . Student Poster Competitions
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief and Photographer Stan Chamberlain A major effort in OES is to ensure that we have an excellent Student Poster Competition…

OCEANS 2022 Hampton Roads is on the Horizon
Ray Toll, OCEANS 2022 Hampton Roads Co-Chair OCEANS 2022 Hampton Roads is just a few months away, and all the planning since 2017 is about…

OCEANS Conferences 2022 and beyond
John Watson, OES Vice-President for OCEANS The OCEANS 2022 Chennai conference has now been and gone. This was the first time that OCEANS reached out…

The Student Poster Competition at OCEANS 2022 Chennai
Dr. A Malarkodi, SPC Chair OCEANS 2022 Chennai, Dr. Shyam Madhusudhana, OES Student Poster Competition Chair The Student Poster Competition (SPC) is a flagship event…

Continue to Broaden Your Horizons – An Experience of Attending OCEANS 2022 Chennai Virtually
Yang Weng (The University of Tokyo), OCEANS 2022 Chennai SPC winner The OCEANS Conference is a worldwide event for maritime professionals to share their research…

A Blast from the Past! . . . A Look to the Future!
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief and Photographer Stan Chamberlain OCEANS 2012 Hampton Roads provided a “springboard” from the east coast to OCEANS 2013 San Diego…

OCEANS Conferences 2022
John Watson, OES Vice-President for OCEANS By the time you read this OCEANS 2022 Chennai (https://chennai22.oceansconference.org ) will, in all probability, be over. The impact…

OCEANS 2021 San Diego – Porto Report 1
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,…

OCEANS 2021 San Diego – Porto Report 2
OCEANS 2021 San Diego – Porto Virtual component, Porto Conference report António Pascoal, LARSyS, IST, Portugal, Co-Chair Eduardo Silva, INESC-TEC, ISEP, Portugal. Co-Chair Fausto Ferreira,…

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,…

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,…

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…

Drop the Mask!! Global OCEANS 2021 San Diego – Porto is bringing us back together!
Robert Wernli, Global OCEANS 2021 San Diego Co-Chair The Global OCEANS 2021 San Diego – Porto committee invites you to participate in this event—in person…

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,…

A Blast from the Past! . . . San Diego, Here We Come!
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief, photos by Stan Chamberlain OCEANS 2013 was held in the lovely city of San Diego. Now, 8 years later, Global…

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…

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…

A Blast from the Past! . . . OES Exhibits, Ready & Waiting!
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief, photos by Stan Chamberlain OES Exhibits are always ready and waiting at all our conferences. Thanks to those who spend…

A Blast from the Past! . . . We Love Our Music!
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief, photos by Stan Chamberlain Another look back at our OCEANS conferences, where, no matter what country we’re in, we love…