IEEE/OES Ed Early Student Poster Competition
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Norm Miller - Student Poster Chair
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Each year the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society sponsors the Student Poster Competition at the spring and fall OCEANS Conferences. Cash awards for the winning posters and the travel, food, lodging, and registration expenses of all students participating in the competition are provided by OES. Students interested in participating in next year's competition should contact Norm Miller for additional information.
In 2003, the OCEANS Conference Student Poster Competition was renamed to honor the late Edward W. Early, a founding member of the Society. The competition shall henceforth be know as the IEEE/OES Ed Early Student Poster Competition.
OCEANS ’09 MTS/IEEE BILOXI STUDENT POSTER PROGRAM
The twenty fifth Student Poster Program of the OCEANS Conference series was held in Biloxi, MS as a part of OCEANS ’09 MTS/IEEE BILOXI. The program was organized by Prof. Stephan Howden of the University of Southern Mississippi and Greg Eisman of SAIC. The program was funded by grants from the Office of Naval Research, SAIC, Mississippi Technical Alliance, and the Deep Sea Power and Light. Forty three poster abstracts were received and thirty four were accepted for presentation. Two invited students from China were unable to attend, however their posters were displayed. One other student was away on a scheduled research assignment and was unable to attend. The students came from Australia, Canada, Egypt, Germany, Korea, Portugal and the United States. Thirty one posters were on display and wonderfully located in the corridor between the exhibit area and the conference session. This enable the conference attendees to pass through them in their way to the meeting rooms.
The judging was completed by noon on Wednesday and the awards were presented at the Gala in the Beau Rivage hotel that evening. Prof. Howden called on the students on stage and presented each student with a certificate for their participation in the program. Colonel Norman D. Miller, the OES Student Activities Coordinator was called up to present the awards. The audience gave the students a big hand following the awards presentations. The session ended with a photograph session in the lobby. The roster of students and their poster titles is:
Ame Arakaki – University of Hawaii at Manoa
“Harnessing the SHM of Ocean Waves”
Nicholas Asseff – Florida Atlantic University
“Design an Finite Element Analysis of an Ocean Current Turbine Blade”
John Bandas – Texas A&M University
“The Design of a Self-propelled Jack-up Drilling Rig for the Chukchi Sea”
Stephan Barkby – Australian Centre fir Field Robotics
“Incorporating Prior Bathymetric Maps with Distributed Particle Bathymetric SLAM for Improved AUV Navigation and Mapping”
Becky Baxter – Georgetown University
“Polarimetric Remote Sensing of Ocean Waves”
Samuel Bingham – University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
“Design of an ROV for Precision Sea Floor Vehicle Mobility and Entry in the 2009 MATE International ROV Competition”
Clint Dunbar – Texas A&M University
“Texas A&M Student Design Project – East Central Gulf of Mexico Truss Spar”
Sarah Epps – University of Southern Mississippi
“Distribution of Suspended Particulate Matter in the Surface Waters of the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Interim Report”
Girges Fath-Allah – Alexandria University, Egypt
“A New Reliable Minimal Volume/Weight Environmental Friendly Power Unit Design Using Microchannel Vaporizer Fuel Cell Processors and Slice Hulls for Super and Mega Yachts”
Bruno Ferreira – Engineering of University of Porto, Portugal
“Modeling and Motion Analysis of the MARES Autonomous Underwater Vehicle”
Aaron Fisher – Florida Atlantic University
“Adaptive Control of Small Outboard-Powered Boats for Survey Applications”
Rowan Fox – Institute of Ocean Sciences – University of Victoria, Canada
“Slocum Glider Observations during the Spring Bloom in the Strait of Georgia”
Thomas Furfaro – Florida Atlantic University
“Design, Construction and Initial Testing of an Autonomous Surface Vehicle for Riverine and Coastal Reconnaissance”
Valerie Hartman – University of Southern Mississippi
“The Impact of hypoxia on bioturbation rates in the Louisiana continental shelf, northern Gulf of Mexico”
Xiaodong Kang – Shenyang Institute of Automation, China
“Fuzzy logic based behavior fusion for multi-AUV formation keeping in uncertain ocean environment”
YoungBum Kim – Inha University, Korea
“Application Scenario of Nautical Ad-hoc Network for Maritime Communications”
William Kirkey – Clarkson University
“Long-Term Deployment of Liquid-Cooled High Frequency (HF) Radar”
Justin Lorio – Florida Atlantic University
“Design of a Next Generation Surface Piercing Propeller Test Stand”
Virgilio Maisonet – University of Southern Mississippi
“Measuring Coastal Sea-Surface Salinity of the Louisiana Shelf from Aerially Observed Ocean Color”
Joule Mikhael – Alexandria University, Egypt
“Minimal Fuel Consumption and Highly Maneuverable Marine Vessels Designed Based on ASAP Hull Technology and Sontag Non-linear Feedback Stabilization”
Ruth Mullins – Texas A&M University
“Real-time Environmental Monitoring from a Wind Farm Platform in the Texas Hypoxic Zone”
Julia O’Hern – Texas A&M University
“Marine Mammal Habitat in Ecuador: Seasonal Abundance and Environmental Distribution”
Chudong Pan – University of Southern Mississippi
“A Preliminary Study of the Influence of Regional Winds on Bering Strait Transport”
Allison Penko – University of Florida
“Mixture Theory Model Sensitivity to Effectiveness Viscosity in Simulations of Sandy Bedform Dynamics”
Miguel Pinto – Engineering University of Porto, Portugal
“Using Side Scan Sonar to Relative Navigation”
Shanshan Ren – University of Southern Mississippi
“Using Qdot conjugations to detect proteins in situ in highly autofluorescent cyanobacterial cells”
David Rosenfield – University of Southern Mississippi
“Using Acoustic Tomography to Monitor Deep Ocean Currents in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico”
Patrick Rynne – Florida Atlantic University
“Visual-Based Navigation of an Autonomous Tugboat”
Shivakumar Shivarudrappa – University of Southern Mississippi
“Benthic Community Response to Hypoxia: Baseline Data”
Marcia Silva – Great Lakes Water Institute
“Application of an automatic event-controlled sampler for biological analysis and monitoring: studies on plume tracking in Milwaukee Harbor, Wisconsin”
Nina Stark – MARUM – University of Bremen
“Geotechnical investigations of sandy seafloors using dynamic penetrometers”
Maria Stefanovich – Oregon State University
“Wave energy and public opinion in Oregon, U.S.A.”
Dennis Waldron – Lafayette College, Pennsylvania
“Underwater Optical Ranging: A Hybrid LIDAR-RADAR”
Baoju Wu – Shenyand Institute of Automation, CAS, China
“ARC Navigation and Control System at Arctic Research”
The posters were judged by the judging team on Tuesday andWednesday morning. The scores were collected and Prof. Howden and Colonel Miller reviewed the results and selected the winners as follows:
1stPlace - Dennis Waldron
2ndPlace– Virgilio Maisonet
-- Ruth Mullins
3rdPlace– Justin Lorio
-- Allison Penko
-- Patrick Rynne
Each student received a round of applause as they received their award. Once again the quality of the poster presentations was outstanding and the research work covered a wide spectrum. All of the students expressed their appreciation for being invited to the Conference and made good use of their time to attend sessions and view the exhibits as well as being at their posters at the appointed times.
Norman D. Miller, P.E.
IEEE/OES
Student Activities Coordinator
OCEANS ’09 IEEE BREMEN STUDENT POSTER PROGRAM
The twenty fourth Student Poster Program of the Conference Series was held in Bremen, Germany as a part of OCEANS’09IEEEBREMEN. Once again there were many outstanding posters representing a wide variety of work. Once again the students came from Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe, Canada and the UK and the United States. Fifty nine student poster abstracts were received and twenty students were selected to present their posters. Two students did not show up and one was late in arriving. However eighteen posters were displayed and judged. The posters were located in a good location in the Exhibition Hall. As you entered the hall, the posters were off to you right and immediately caught your attention.
The Poster program began with a briefing and review of the rules on Tuesday morning. Each student then gave a short description of the poster to the fellow students and judges. Following the Opening Plenary Session the posters were mounted in their assigned places and the program began. Once again the program was supported by a financial grant from the U.S. Navy Office of Naval Research. The climax of the program came on Wednesday evening at the gala reception in the Old Town Hall. This magnificent room was a fitting way to honor the students for their work and participation in this program. The students assembled in front of the podium and were introduced by Mr. Norman D. Miller, IEEE/OES Student Activities Coordinator. Mr. Miller gave a brief history of the program and then announced the winning posters. Dr. Martina Patzold in turn gave the award Certificate to Dr. Christoph Waldmann and he gave it to the student. At the completion of the Awards ceremony all of the students received a round of applause for their work. Many photos were taken and congratulations abounded.
The roster of students and their poster titles are:
Marcos Sastre – University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
“Backscattering of Sound from Salinity Fluctuations: Measurements off a Coastal River Estuary”
Thibaut Lurton – Telecom Bretagne, France
“Simulation of the Radar Observations of a Sea Patch using the TLM Electromagnetic Methods”
Sabine Graf – University of Bath, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
“Acoustic Modeling of Dolphin Sound Reception and Implications for Biosonar Design”
Ismael Aymerich – University of Marine Technology (UTM-CSIC) Spain
“Fast phytoplankton classification from fluorescence spectra: comparison between PSVM and SOM”
David Sarria – Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), SARTI Spain
“Control and acquisition system design for an Expandable Seafloor Observatory (OBSEA)”
Mathew Johnson-Roberson – University of Sydney
“Fast phytoplankton classification from fluorescence spectra: comparison between PSVM and SOM”
Adrian Bodenmann – The University of Tokyo
“Visual Mapping of Internal Pipe Walls using Sparse Features for Application on board Autonomous Underwater Vehicles”
Shyam Kumar Madhusudhana – San Diego State University
“Blue Whale B and D Call Classification Using a Frequency Domain Based Robust Contour Extractor”
Grant Pusey – Curtin University of Technology – Australia
“Analysis of acoustic modem performance for long range horizontal data transmission”
Valentin Soulenq – ISEN, Toulon, France
“A voice recognition system for a submarine piloting”
Marcel Farre’ – University of Bremen, MARUM
“Sensor Network based on IEEE 1451 for ocean sensors”
Mohamed Abdel-Salam – Alexandria University, Faculty of Engineering
“Designing high speed monohull small crafts (HSMSC) using neural networks guided CFD based optimization”
Hermann Bertram – Bremen University, MARUM
“Developing and IDE interface for the SNAP module”
Saad Sharaf – Alexandria University, Faculty of Engineering
“WCLES: An innovative environmental friendly combustionless engine for marine applications based on low-current electrolysis technology”
Midori Shimizu – Kobe University
“Correction Method for Buoy Oscillation by Three GPS Receivers”
Yanzhe Fu – Jacobs University, Bremen
“Forward modeling of paleo heat flow: a case study of Kristin Field, Mid-Norwegian continental shelf”
Yusuke Yamane – Kobe University
“Improvement for Detection Distance of Sonar by Flat Acoustic Reflector”
Tanio Lado – University of Rhode Island
“Offshore mussel aquaculture: new of just renewed?”
The Judging Team met Wednesday afternoon to review the results and select the winning posters. After some deliberation the winning posters were selected as follows:
First Place – Thibaut Lurton
2nd Place - Marcos Sastre
Shyam Kumar Madhusudhana
3rd Place – Valentin Soulenq
Grant Pusey
Ismael Aymerich
Once again the Student Poster Session was highly successful and the students and conference attendees all gained from the experience.
Gallery of OCEANS ’09 IEEE Bremen Student Posters
OCEANS’08MTS/IEEEQUEBEC – Student Poster Program
The twenty third Student Poster Program of the Conference series was held in Quebec, Canada, as a part of OCEANS’08MTS/IEEEQUEBEC. This proved to be one of the best series of Student Posters that has been presented at an OCEANS Conference. The Student Program was organized by Norman D. Miller IEEE/OES.
Forty four poster abstracts were received and twenty six students were invited to participate. Five had to withdraw and twenty one students presented their posters. Support for the students was provided by the conference with a generous grant from the Office of Naval Research. The posters were displayed in a section of the Exhibition Area. On Monday each student gave a five minute oral presentation describing the poster to the assembled students and judges. The posters were then posted in the Exhibition Area and the students attended their posters during breaks, lunch time break through Thursday afternoon. The judges completed their work on Wednesday morning in time for the selection of the award winners to be determined for the Wednesday Evening Awards ceremony. Once again there was a wide distribution of universities represented including China, Japan, Taiwan, Spain, France, Portugal, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, and the United States. The program culminated in the presentation of the Prize Paper Awards at the Wednesday night Gala. Mr. Miller was introduced and gave a short history of the Student Poster Program. All of the students assembled in front of the stage. This session marked a special event in the Student Poster history.
 The 400 th Student Poster was presented. Miss Emma Robinson from the University of Dublin, Ireland was introduced and awarded a special certificate. Since Quebec City was celebrating its 400 th anniversary, Miss Robinson was presented with a book on Quebec and a generous cash contribution from Raytheon-Canada.
Mr. Miller then introduced the winning students and Dr. Ferial El-Hawary, Conference Co-chair presented the awards to the winning students. Pictures were taken of the assembled group as well as pictures of each award winner. The students and their posters were:
Thomas Ludwicki – University of British Columbia
“Study of Vessel Wakes in Sensitive Inland Waterways”
Patrick F. Rynne – Florida Atlantic University
“A Wind and Solar-powered Autonomous Surface Vehicle for Sea Surface Measurements”
Karim Ouertani – IT Telecom Bretagne
“Enhanced Pilot Aided Channel Estimation using Lagrane Interpolation and Pilo Symbol Cancellation in Rayleigh-fading Multipath Channels”
Jacob M. Sobin - Duke University Marine Lab
:”Diving behavior of female loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) during their internesting interval and an evaluation of the risk of boat strikes”
Elena Torrecilia – Marine Technology Unit (UTM-CMIMA)
“Stray-light correction of in-water array spectroradiometers, effects on wunderwater optical measurements”
Jeffrey Rogers – Duke University
“Passive Broadband Source Localization in Shallow-water Multipath Acoustic Channels”
Paul Mahacek – Santa Clara University
“Development and Initial Testing of a SWATH Boat for Shallow-water Bathymetry”
Joseph R. Holler – Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
“An Unmanned Surface Vehicle for Undergraduate Science Education”
Emma Robinson – University College Dublin
“Methodology for Modeling Tidal Turbine Characteristics”
De Huang – Hangzhou Dianzi University
“SINS initial alignment method using Robust filtering for Towed Ocean Bottom Magnetometer”
Ismael F. Aymerich – Unidad de Technologia Marine (UTM-CSIC)
“Fast phytoplankton classification from emission flouresence spectra based on Self-Organizing Maps”
Shenping Wang – Wuhan University
“Study on key technologies of Construction of Marine Geomagnetic Filed Model Based on Polynomial Method”
Oghenevwori Patricia Okorie – The Robert Gordon University
“Ocean Energy”
Maya Nand Jha – University of Calgary
“Oil Spill Contingency Planning using Laser Fluorosensors and Web-Based GIS”
Tom Fedenczuk – University of Hawaii
“Automated Quantification of Gradient Defined Features”
Naomi Turner – The Robert Gordon University
“Modelling Tidal Turbines”
Tuan Phan Anh – Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
“Increasing Ship Roll Stability by Using Anti-rolling Tanks”
Severin Stalder – EPFL
“Terrain Based Navigation for Underwater Vehicles using Side Scan Sonar Images”
M.Azizur Rahman – University of Ryukus
“Identification and function of new proteins in calcified endoskeleton: a new insight in the classification mechanism of soft corals”
Morgan Adams – The Robert Gordon University
“A Study of annulus lubrication for oil well completion using scale model tests”
Sergio Rui Silva – FEUP
“Shallow Water Height Mapping with Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Sonar”
At the Wedneday evening banquet the Poster Awards were announced and each student came forward to receive the award as follows:
1st Place – Jeffrey Rogers – Duke University
2nd Place
– Morgan Adams – The Robert Gordon University
- Maya Jha – University of Calgary
3rd Place – M. Azizur Rahman – The University of Ryukus
- Emma Robinson – The University of Dublin
- Naomi Turner – The Robert Gordon University
At the conclusion of the Awards Ceremony, suitable pictures were taken and the students were given a round of applause.
Norman D. Miller
Student Activities Coordinator
IEEE/OES
OCEANS’08 MTS/IEEE KOBE- Student Poster Program
The twenty second Student Poster Program of the OCEANS Conference series was held in Kobe, Japan as a part of OCEANS’08MTS/IEEE KOBE – TECHNO-OCEANS’08 (OTO’08). The program was organized by Dr Susumu Araki of Osaka University assisted by COL Norman D. Miller IEEE/OES. Sixty three poster abstracts were received and twenty were selected to attend the conference and display their poster. Eighteen students were able to attend the conference. Support for the students was provided by the conference with a generous contribution from the Office of Naval Research. The posters were displayed in the Poster Section of the Exhibition Area. The students made five minute oral presentations about their posters to fellow students and judges on Wednesday afternoon, April 9th, and then stood with their poster during the Organized Poster Session on Thursday, April 10th. While the majority of the posters were from universities in Japan and China, abstracts were received from African, European, Canadian and United States universities as well. The program culminated in the presentation of awards at the Gala on Thursday evening, April 10th in the Kobe Kacho-En (Bird and Flower Garden). Dr. Araki opened the presentation ceremony and Colonel Miller gave a brief overview and history of the Student Poster Program. He then introduced Dr, Walter Jones, Executive Director of ONR, USA, who presented in turn the awards to the prize winning students. The students and their posters were:
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Norm Miller introduces the Student Poster Program at the OTO '08 Gala
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Yoko Shibutani – Tottori University, Japan
“N-Line Model for Predicting Beach Evolution”
Schei Okamoto – Tottori University, Japan
“A Facility Composed by Oyster Shell Filters for Purifying Contaminated Water in Closed Water Area”
Daochen Zhu – Kobe University, Japan
“Physiological role of compatible solute hydroxyectoine synthesized in halophilic Halomonas ventosae DL7”
Aki Miyagi – Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan
“Receiving Distance of Stationary Ultrasonic Biotelemetry Receiver in the Temperate Ocean”
Hongyan Zhang – Kobe University, Japan
“Cultivation and Characterization of Microorganisms in Antarctic Lakes”
Ying-Yuen Su – National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
“Spatial Cluster Detection for Fishing Vessel Monitoring Systems”
Atsuhiko Yumine – Kobe University Graduate School of Science and Technology,
“Establishment of N2O simulation in Yodo River estuary”
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OTO '08 Student Poster Competition Winners with Susumu Araki, Norm Miller, Walter Jones, and Ken Takagi
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Hideaki Nozato – Graduate School of Marine Science, Kobe University, Japan
“A simulation study of the growth and spatial distribution of plankton in the estuary of the Yodo River Osaka Bay, Japan”
Xiaoyi Hu – Xiamen University, China
“A novel scheme of Timing Synchronization for OFDM Underwater Communication System”
Shyam Kumar Madhusudhan – San Diego State University, USA
“Frequency Based Robust Contour Extraction of Blue Whale B and D Calls”
Ningning Wang – Harbin University, China
“Tunnel effect in multibeam bathymetric system and its canceling with error feedback least square lattice algorithm”
Rei Arai – Osaka Prefecture University, Marine System Engineering, Japan
“Measurement Method of suspended solids using ADCP”
Karim Ouertani – GET/ENST Bretagne, France
“Toward Performance Improvements of RAKE Receiver with Pilot Signal Cancellation, Power Allocation and Lagrange Filtering”
Weidong Gong – School of electronic & Computer Science, University of Southampton
“Oceanographic Sensor for in-situ temperature and conductivity monitoring”
Yusuke Aoki, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
“Development of “IISA-ATP” system for in situ microbial assessment in deep-sea environment”
Phan Tuan – Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Japan
“Response of roll damping on Anti-rolling Tank devices”
Quiang Li – ShenYang Institute of Automation, CAS, China
“Research on Dynamic Simulation of Underwater Vehicle Manipulator Systems”
Junichi Inadomi - Saga University, Japan
“Weighting of the characteristic of the cycle on the OTEC system using ammonia/water mixture as working fluid”
Following the oral presentations by the students, the judges set to work evaluating the posters. Once again it was a daunting task as the posters were all well done. The students receiving awards were:
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Ms. Hongyan Zhang receives her First Place Award from Dr. Walter Jones
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1st Place – Hongyan Zhang – Kobe University
2nd Place – Shyam Kumar Madhusudhan – San Diego State University
- Karim Quertani – GET/ENST Bretagne
3rd Place – Aki Miyagi – Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
- Rei Arai – Osaka Prefecture University, Marine Systems Engineering
- Weidong Gong – School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Southampton
At the conclusion of the Awards Ceremony, suitable pictures were taken and the students were given a round of applause .
Norman D. Miller
Student Activities Coordinator
IEEE/OES
OCEANS '07 MTS/IEEE Vancouver Student Poster Competition
OCEANS '07 MTS/IEEE Vancouver Student Poster Competition Participants
OCEANS '07 MTS/IEEE Vancouver Student Poster Competition Winners
Third Place:
Windell Jones, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Marcos Manuel Sastre, University of Massachusetts School of Marine Science and Technology
Daniel G. Walker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Second Place:
Michelle Weirathmueller, University of New Hampshire
Chris Watts, University of Glasgow
First Place:
Arthur C. R. Gleason, University of Miami
OCEANS ’07 MTS/IEEE Vancouver Student Poster Program
The 21st Student Poster Program was held as a part of OCEANS07MTS/IEEEVancouver. The Student Poster Program and Competition has been an integral and important part of the OCEANS Conferences since 1989. The program is designed to foster and promote student involvement in technical societies and conferences and to provide a forum for the student to interact with marine professionals. It is open to engineering and science graduate and undergraduate students of any tertiary level university or college worldwide. Twenty two students were selected from 53 submitted abstracts from schools in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America to present their posters. Nineteen were able to attend. Once again we were able to receive support from the US Navy Office of Naval Research. A judging team made up of members from OES and MTS judged all of the posters and selected the top six for awards. The awards were announced and presented at the Wednesday Night Gala Reception at the Pan Pacific Hotel Atrium.
The roster of students and poster titles are:
Mahmoud Aildadi – University of British Columbia
“Numerical Investigations of the Effects of Towing Tank Walls on Vertical Axis Tidal Turbine”
Ryan J. Bell – College of Marine Science, St. Petersburg, FL
“Simultaneous Pressure-Corrected Dissolved Gas Profiles in the Gulf of Mexico Determined using an In-Situ Membrane Inlet Underwater Mass Spectrometer”
Jonathan Byron – University of Rhode Island
“Designing a Vertical/Horizontal AUV for Deep Ocean Sampling”
Yin-Jun Chen – National Chia-Yi University, Taiwan
Ordered CSMA: A collision-free MAC protocol for underwater acoustic networks”
Karen Leigh Dreger – University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL
“Unmanned Surface Vehicles for Seagrass Monitoring”
Arthur C.R. Gleason – University of Miami, Florida
“Automated classification of underwater multispectral imagery for coral reef monitoring”
Matthew Kai Johnson-Robertson – University of Sidney, NSW, Australia
“Generating Visually Consistent Benthic Surface Meshes Using Visual Features”
Windell Jones – University of Hawaii at Manoa
“NUROV: The Network-controlled Underwater Remote Observation Vehicle”
Thibaut Lurton – ENST Bretagne, France
“A Simulation of the Synthetic Aperture Radar Observation of a Manufactured Object in Sea Clutter using Finite Differences”
Hayato Mizushima – The University of Tokyo
“Autonomous recognition of bubble plumes for navigation of undwerwater robots in active shallow vent areas”
Donald T. Murray – UW-Milwaukee Great Lakes WATER Institute, WI
“Monitoring and Controlling System Performance In the Pioneer Buoy”
Paul Rigby – Australian Center for Field Robotics – University of Sidney, Australia
“Effective Benthic Surveys with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles”
Marcos Manuel Sastre – UMASS School of Marine Science and Technology
“Measurements of the turbulent microstructure of a buoyant salinity plume using acoustics: Field observations and theory validation”
Nayrah Shalout – National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Alexandria, Egypt
“The distribution of CO2 partial pressure and air-sea CO2 flux in El-Mex Bay, Alexandria, Egypt”
Sergio Rui Silva – Porto University, Portugal
“An Autonomous Boat Based Synthetic Aperture Sonar”
Andrea Verena Striz – Franklin Olin College of Engineering, Needham, MA
“Design, Construction and Field Testing of an Autonomous Surface Craft for Engineering and Science Education”
Daniel G. Walker – MIT, Cambridge, MA
“XAUV: A Modular Highly Maneuverable Autonomous Underwater Vehicle”
Chris Watts – University of Glasgow, Scotland
“Biomimetic Propulsions Systems for Mini-Autonomous Underwater Vehicles”
Michelle Weirathmueller – University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
“Acoustic Positioning and Tracking in Portsmouth Harbour, New Hampshire”
During the Gala Reception all of the Students were called forward and introduced to the Conference Attendees by Dr. James McFarlane. He then introduced COL Norman D. Miller who inducted the students into the “Student Poster Hall of Fame” and then announced the award winners:
First Place – Arthur C. R. Gleason , University of Miami, Florida
Second Place – Chris Watts, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Second Place – Michelle Weirathmueller, University of New Hampshire
Third Place – Windell Jones, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Marcos Manuel Sastre – UMASS School of Marine Science and Technology
Daniel G. Walker – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Following the presentations the Conference attendees gave the students a big round of applause. Another successful Student Poster Program had been completed.
Norman D. Miller, P.E.
Student Poster Chair
OCEANS07MTS/IEEEVancouver
OCEANS '07 IEEE Aberdeen Student Poster Competition
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OCEANS '07 IEEE Aberdeen Student Poster Competition Participants
OCEANS '07 IEEE Aberdeen Student Poster Competition Winners
Third Place:
Sergi Pons, CMIMA-CSIC, Spain
Edward Pilbrow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Lee Pius, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Second Place:
Ejria Sibadogil, Borneo Marine Research Institute, Malaysia
Morgan Adams, The Robert Gordon University, Scotland
First Place:
Angela Piehl Harms, University of Bergen, Norway
OCEANS ’07 IEEE Aberdeen Student Poster Program
A very fine Student Poster Program was presented at OCEANS 07 Aberdeen. Forty two poster abstracts were received and twenty two students were invited. One student had to cancel, but twenty one posters were displayed on poster boards in the Exhibition Center. Financial support for the program was provided by the Research-Directorate General of the European Commission. Prizes were awarded by funds from the College of Physical Sciences of the University of Aberdeen. The poster program was organized by a committee lead by Dr. Martin Solan, The University of Aberdeen. He was assisted by Aland Edwards and Miguel Nuevo-Alarcon of RDG European Commission. Judging of the posters was led by Colonel Norman D. Miller, IEEE/OES who was assisted by Miguel Nuevo-Alarcon and Mr. John Dunn of the FRS Marine Lab Aberdeen. The posters were on display Tuesday through Thursday for the Conference attendees to view. The judges worked Tuesday and Wednesday and were able to select the winners in time for the awards presentation at Fyvie Castle on Wednesday evening. The awards were presented by Dr. Alan Edwards, RDG European Commission and Prof. William Deans, Head of the School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh. The roster of students, their respective university, and poster subject are:
Morgan Adams, The Robert Gordon University, Scotland
“Novel Tracers for Environmental Applications”
Nicholas Burns, The University of Aberdeen, Scotland
“Extraction from Underwater Holograms of Marine Organisms”
Tomasz Gorski, Instytut Radioelecktroniki Wojskowa Akademis Techniczna, Poland
“Target Detection using HF Radar Data”
Yan Hou, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
:Behavior-based Rules with Fuzzy Logic Controlled Priority Weights in Multi-UUVs Team Cooperation”
Mathew Johnson-Robertson, Australian Centre for Field Robotics, Australia
“Three Dimensional Heterogenous Imaging Sensor Correspondence and Registration Visualization”
Inigo Martinez, FRS Marine Laboratory, Scotland
“What Impact do North Sea Oil and Gas Platforms have on Demeral Fish Population Ecology”
Derrick Mirikitani, Goldsmith College, England
“Day Ahead Ocean Swell Forecasting with Recursively Regularized Recurrant Neural Networks”
Piehl Harms Angela, University of Bergen, Norway
“Physical Qualification and Quantification of the Water Masses in the Kongsfjorden System Cross Section”
Edward Pilbrow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
“An Active Beacon for Measuring theTow-Path of a Synthetic Aperature Sonar: Purau Bay Sea Trail Results”
Lee Pius, University of Singapore, Singapore
“Comparison of data delivery schemes for Underwater Sensor Networks”
Sergi Pons, Marine Technology Unit (CMIMA-CSIC), Spain
“Monolithic Spectrometer for Environmental Monitoring Applications”
Ruben Quesada, EPSC-UPC, Spain
“Wavelet Denoising Technique to Minimize the Noise Effects on Oceanic Microstructure Data”
Jeffery Rogers, Duke University, USA
“A Study of Active Sonar Reverberation using Ultrasonic Experiments in a Shallow-water Tank”
Ejria Sibadogil, Borneo Marine Research Institute, Malaysia
“Water Circulation in Darvel Bay, Sabah, Malaysia”
Manuel Toscano-Jiminez, University of Seville, Spain
“Using Oceanography to Control and Forecast Nuclear Accidents and Other Passive Particles Problems”
Naomi Turner, The Robert Gordon University, Scotland
“Development of a Tidal Turbine for Deployment in Areas of Slow Moving Tidal Flows”
Richard Veitch, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom
“Reconfigurable Hardware Applied to Holographic Reconstruction”
Zhenhai Wang, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA
“Time Frequency Domain Blind Source Separation in Underwater Wireless Speech Communication”
Fang Xu, Xiamen University, Fujian , China
“Space-time Signal Processing of ofdm Signals in Fast Varying Underwater Acoustic Channel”
Tomoko Yoshiki, Soka University, Japan
“The Pressurizing System for Observation of Marine Zooplankton”
Following a very fine banquet at Fyvie Castle the Poster Program was concluded with the award of prizes to the award winning posters:
First Place - Angela Piehl Harms – 300 Pounds
Second Place – Morgan Adams – 200 Pounds
- Ejria Sibadogil – 200 Pounds
Third Place – Edward Pilbrow - 100 Pounds
Third Place – Lee Pius – 100 Pounds
- Sergi Pons – 100 Pounds
All students were asked to stand and received a warm round of applause for their participation in the program. Appropriate photos were taken to commemorate the occasion.
Norman D. Miller , P.E.
Student Activities Coordinator
OCEANS '06 MTS/IEEE Boston Student Poster Program
The nineteeth Student Poster Program was held at OCEANS 06 MTS/IEEE Boston . Once again there was a very fine display of student posters located in the center of the exhibits area at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA. The posters were prominently displayed and were widely viewed by the conference attendees. The Student Poster Session was organized by Dr. Alexandra Techet from MIT. 49 poster abstracts were received and 24 were selected for presentation. Poster abstracts were obtained from students in the US, Canada, France, Italy, Russia, China, Venezuela,and the UK. The program was supported by funding from the Office of Naval Research and from the National Science Foundation. A new event was the addition of a Poster Precis prior to the beginning of the poster display. Each student gave a brief concise overview of the project in 2-3slides to the judges panel, fellow students and guests. This introduction gave the judges a great overview of the work as well as an opportunity to the student to give an oral presentation. The awards for the winning posters were presented at the Wednesday evening Gala at the Museum of Science. Two level of awards were given. First to Graduate Students and second to undergraduate students. The posters were:
Daniel Walker, MIT
"Micro Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Concept for Distributed Data Collection"
Zhenhai Wang - University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA
"Factor Analysis for Ocean Seismic Remote Sensing"
Rogelio Morales - Universidad Central de Venezuela - Caracus, Venezuela
"Prototype of a Stereoscopic Vision System to Improve Image Quality in Turbid Waters During Underwater Inspections"
Alexander Pavin - MIT
"The Pipeline Identification Method Basing on AUV's Echo-Sounder Data"
Brandon Cochenour - Naval System Command/Johns Hopkins University
"Effects of Multiple Scattering on an Underwater Wireless Optical Communications Link"
Jiaming Zhang - University of Massachusetts, Darmouth, MA
"Development of an Integrated Acoustical-Optical Platform for Detecting Groundfish"
Lauren Cooney - MIT
"Design of an ROV to Compete in the 5th Annual MATE ROV Competition and Beyond"
Jesse Kipp - University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee Great Lakes WATER Institute, WI
"A Software Framework for an Integrated Observing System"
Korey Verhein - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Great Lakes WATER Institute, WI
"An Inexpensive Underwater Multi-Point Temperature System"
Lauren Cooney - MIT
"Design of an Acoustic-Homing Autonomous Surface Vessel"
Fan Gu - University of New Hampshire-Durham, NH
"Optimal Image Blending for Underwater Mosaics"
Xiaoling Chen-Steven Institute of Technology - Hoboken, NJ
"Passive Acoustic Detection of Divers Under Strong Interference"
Madaline Barbu - University of New Orleans - New Orleans, LA
"Acoustic Seabed Classification using Fractional Fourier Transform and Time-Frequency Transform Techniques"
Lloyd Ackermann - Florida Atlantic University - Dania Beach, FL
"Hydrodynamic testing of as Vectored-Thruster Propelled UUV"
Zhipeng Sun - Harvard University - Cambridge, MA
"Size Spectrum of Suspended Particulate Matter in the Bohai Sea"
Kathryn D'Epagnier - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
"AUV Propellers: Optimal Design and Improving Existing Propellers for Greater Efficiancy"
Paula Echeverri - MIT
"Experimental Investigation of Internal Tide Genertaion by Two-dimensional Topography"
Jeffery Kaeli - Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Blacksburg, VA
"An Automated Morphological Image Processing Based Methodology for Quantifying Coral Cover in Deeper Reef Zones"
Michael Stanway - MIT
"Small Diameter Ducted Contrarotating Propulsor for Marine Robots"
Andy Schneider - University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Great Lakes WATER Institute, WI
"Near Shore Wireless Communications System for Sensor Buoys"
Ye Li - University of British Columbia - Vanouver, BC, Canada
"Modeling the Operation and Maintenance Cost of Large Scale Tidal Current Turbine Farm"
Laura Amate - 13S UNSA-CNRS - Sophia-Antipolis, France
"A Contribution to the Problem of Mapping Seabed Transition Zones"
Daniela Donno - Politecnico di Milano - Milan, Italy
"Seismic Shape Parameters Estimation and Ground-roll Suppression using Vector Sensor Beamforming"
The Judging Team did an out standing job of eveluating the posters and reached a concensus on the ranking of the posters. Prizes were awarded as follows:
Graduate - First Place - Brandon Cochenour
Second Place - Lauren Cooney
Jordan Stanway
Third Place - Alexander Pavin
Ye Li
Undergraduate - First Place - Zhipeng Sun
Second Place - Jeff Kaeli
Third Place - Andy Schneider
All of the Students were asked to stand and were given a round of applause at the conclusion of the Awards presentation.
Norman D. Miller
Student Activities Coordinator
OCEANS '06 IEEE Singapore Student Poster Program
The eighteenth Student Poster Program was held at OCEANS '06 ASIA PACIFIC in Singapore . Once gain we had a very fine display of student posters. Sixteen poster abstracts were received and fourteen were accepted. Two of the students had scheduling conflicts and were unable to attend and a third student cancelled out just prior to the Conference. Eleven posters were displayed and represented students from China, Japan, New Zealand, Turkey, France, Taiwan, Greece and Singapore. The posters were on display in the Lobby of the Conference Center and were heavily visited by the attendees. The Student Poster Session was organized by Mandar Chitre from the University of Singapore. Support from the Office of Naval Research of the United States Navy underwrote the cost of the program. Prizes for the top six posters were awarded at the Gala Banquet on Thursday evening. The posters were:
Gerard Llort-Pujol, ENST Bretagne, Brest, France
"A New Approach for Fast and High-resolution Interferometric Bathymetry"
Sie-Yu Li, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
"A Novel Piezo-resistive Type Underwater Acoustic Sensor using SOI Wafer"
Mehdi Farrokhrooz, Shiraz University, Tehran, Iran
"A Performance Comparison Between Conventional PNN and Multi-spread PNN in SHip Noise Classification"
Isil Elmasli, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
"A Wideband and a Wide Beamwidth Acoustic Transducer Design for Underwater Acoustic Communications"
Jose Garcia, University of Hanover, Hanover, Germany
"Adapted Distributed Localization of Sensors in Underwater Acoustic Networks"
Philip Barclay, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
"Bathymetric Results from a Multi-frequency InSAS Sea-Trial"
Daijin Hou, Kobe , Japan
"Evaluation Test Result on Wave Direction Measurement Using GPS Buoy"
Alan Hunter, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
"Fast Fourier-Domain Modelling for an SAS Simulator with Application to Time-Variant Targets, Aspect-Dependent Occlusions, adn Doppler Effects"
Effrosyni-Maria Skordaki, Laboratory of Marine Geology and Physical
Oceanography, University of Patras. Patras, Greece
"Heavy Metal Determination in Eastern Mediterranean Marine Sediments by Partial LEaching and High Resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Techniques"
Liang Zhao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
"Particle Filtering Detectioin in Turbo Coded OFDM System Over Underwater Acoustic Communication Channels"
Imen Karoui, ENST Bretagne, Brest, France
"Region Based and Incidence Angle Dependent Segmentation of Seabed Sonar Images using a Level Set Approach Combined to Local Texture Statistics"
Lijie Zhang, College of Marine Engineering, Northwestern Polyterchnical
University, Xi'an, China
"Spectral Analysis of Noise Characteristics Caused by Ship Propeller Cavitation"
Oliver Wurl, National University of Singapore, Singapore
"Time Trend of Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Atmosphere Over the Indian Ocean Over the Last 30 Years"
He Bing, College of Marine Engineering, Polytechnical University, Xi'an,
China
"Underwater Acoustic Spread Spectrum Communication Based on M Family N Group Parallel Transmission"
The Judging Team did and outstanding job of evaluating the posters and
reached a concensus on the ranking of the posters. Prizes were awarded as
follows:
1st Place - Gerard Llort-Pujol
2nd Place - Imen Karoui
- Philip Barclay
3rd Place - Jose Garcia
- Alan Hunter
- Oliver Wurl
All of the Students were asked to stand and were given a round of applause at the conclusion of the Awards.
Norman D. Miller
Student Activites Coordinator
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