René Garello, Chair of IEEE/OES Nominations and Appointments Committees, Junior Past President Each year at the beginning of January, the Oceanic Engineering Society is…

VPTA Column: Carrying on…
Malcolm Heron, OES Vice President for Technical Activities I started writing this column with Plan A in mind to say that the year was getting…

From the President (March 2020)
Christian de Moustier, OES President Calendar year 2020 is a leap year. In our epoch, this means an extra day at the end of February…

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.”…
Welcome New and Reinstated Members (March 2020)
Australia Perri Quattrociocchi Andrew E Sayers C J Skinner Brazil J Coriolano Canada Chris Bayley Xinwei Chen Jasper Dupuis James Leo Hanlon Franz Heubach Anna…
From the Journal Editor’s desk: IEEE Journal of Engineering Early Access Papers
Mandar Chitre, Journal Editor-in Chief Congratulations to the authors of our most recently approved papers for the IEEE JOE. The following papers were published as…

From the OES BEACON Editors (March 2020)
Harumi Sugimatsu and Robert Wernli Welcome to the March 2019 issue of the Beacon. The latest changes to all our committees and volunteers can be…
Fred Maltz Obituary
With sadness, we again announce the passing of another of our long-time OES colleagues—Fred Maltz. Frederick (Fred) Harold Maltz of Mountain View, CA died on…

Obituary on D. Richard “Dick” Blidberg
January 1, 1945 – September 1 2019 It is with sadness that we have recently lost another valuable member of our technical community with the…
Sonar performance quantification: report on two DLs
Kenneth G. Foote, IEEE Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA Introduction The author gave two seminars under the aegis of…

Member Highlights (March 2020)
Contact the editors if you have items of interest for the society Doraemon Museum with a new OES member’s family in Japan Harumi Sugimatsu,…

OES Society Awards (2019)
Photos by Stan Chamberlain The OES Society Awards Ceremony was held during the Wednesday Plenary at OCEANS 2019 Seattle. We are honored to introduce the…

Who’s who in the OES (December 2019)
Jenhwa Guo, National Taiwan University (NTU) Jenhwa Guo was born in Taipei in 1958. He is a professor at the Department of Engineering Science and…

Awards for OES members
Contact the editors with your submissions. Team KUROSHIO place 2nd in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE Reported by the OES Japan Chapter members of the…

Member Highlights (September 2019)
Contact the editors if you have items of interest for the society Title: Visiting U-Tokyo story Author: Hsin-Hung Chen and Yu-Cheng Chou Professors, Institute…

A Blast from the Past! . . . In Honor of JP
Bob Wernli – Beacon Co-Editor-in-Chief, photos by Stan Chamberlain Jean-Pierre Hermand has been remembered in the December 2018 issue and in a special memorial session…
Welcome New and Reinstated Members (September 2019)
Australia Irina R Rabeja Biba Tominc Canada Ali Jebelli China Yong Chen Yu Hao Jiasheng Li Mingwei Lin Guoyuan Tang Defa Wu Croatia Kristijan Krcmar…

Technology Committee Reports (September 2019)
Submit TC reports to VPTA and Technology committee coordinator with cc to Beacon Co-Editors The BEACON newsletter introduces the hot topics of the Technology Committee…

The OES Festival of Distinguished Lectures
Philippe Courmontagne, French Chapter Chair Just following the OCEANS conference in Marseille, the first edition of the OES Festival of Distinguished Lectures has taken place…

From your Chapter Coordinator (September 2019)
Gerardo Acosta, OES Chapter Coordinator Still with the joy of sharing four wonderful days at the OCEANS Conference in Marseille, France, exchanging top level knowledge…

Jean-Pierre Hermand MEMORIAL Session – OCEANS 2019 Marseille, France
James Candy, OES AdCom member The special session entitled the “Jean-Pierre Hermand Memorial” was held at OCEANS 2019 Marseille and was co-chaired by his…
Beacon Archives Now On Line
OES has totally updated the society website (ieeeoes.org) to make it more useful for our members. The latest additions, under the “Publications” tab, are an…
Recon Report (September 2019)
Brian Horsburgh, OES RECON Committee Co-Chair Recon committee meeting in Marseille Welcome to my first report as RECON Co-Chair for OES. Its been a…
AdCom Election Results (2019)
The election results are in for the 2020-2022 Administrative Committee members. This year we had a great list of 12 candidates from around the world…
Member Benefits—Did You Know?
Group Insurance Plans IEEE’s member group insurance plans offer exceptional benefits, value and service. Active IEEE members in specified geographic areas may participate in insurance…