OES Electronic Newsletter Volume 6, Number 19
President's Message21 December 2009 Hope you have a very happy holiday period and
a great New Year! We find the Oceanic Engineering Society extremely active and
in good financial condition at the end of 2009. We have had very successful
OCEANS Conferences in Bremen, Germany and in Biloxi, along with our first major
Symposium in China. We worked with our new Chapter in India to be a Technical
Co-Sponsor for SYMPOL in November and we now have a new Chapter in Norway. In
2010 we will have our OCEANS Conferences in Sydney in May and be back once again
in Seattle in September. Along the way we will be visiting Argentina and Latvia
for Symposiums and returning once again to Brest, France in June. Our always
very successful workshop on ocean current technology will be in Monterrey, CA
in March. Our membership has increased in 2009 due to all the hard work of our
Membership Committee.
In 2010 we will be concentrating on student activities, including organizing
our Gold members and awarding scholarships to deserving students. We are also
very pleased to be a co-sponsor with other Societies in our Division for the
"Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems in Vienna, Austria
in 2011."
Our Journal of Oceanic Engineering continues to be a masterpiece under our Editor,
Christian de Moustier and James Gant as our new Editor of the Newsletter is
doing an outstanding job. Our goal is to serve our members and to help them
in their professional development through our products and conferences. I am
extremely pleased with the work done by our volunteers in the Society, including
those serving on our ADCOM, our EXCOM and on our Technical Committees. After
an extremely busy year, now is the time to relax and enjoy the holidays and
my thanks to all of you for your support of the OCEANIC ENGINEERING SOCIETY.
Sincerely,
Jerry C. Carroll
President, IEEE/OES
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Send comments regarding this newsletter to the editor: Marinna Martini, mmartini@ieee.org