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 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”
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