Environmental Technology
Chair Daniel Hanes, PE
Technical Scope: The Environmental Technology Committee is chartered to examine the impact that oceanic engineering sensors and systems have on the ocean environs and the impact the ocean has on the performance of oceanic systems and sensors. This involves the performance prediction of acoustic and non-acoustic sensors as modified by the natural environment e.g., bathymetry interaction with active sonars, and the level of disturbance that the systems bring to the ocean, e.g., high energy levels associated with active sonars with respect to mammal behavior.

Ocean Policy and Education
Chair Dr. Joseph Czika, Jr.
Technical Scope: The scope of this Committee consists of activities associated with the formulation, discussion, and implementation of international and national policies effecting oceanic engineering, science, and technology. This scope includes issues associated with maritime law, ocean resources management, technology innovation, international cooperation, and education. Anticipated activities include delivering papers at oceanic engineering conferences and workshops, interacting with national and international organizations and societies dealing with oceanic policy issues, and informing legislative bodies concerning ocean policy and education issues. The Committee seeks to promote: the policy and educational interests of the oceanic profession, informed stewardship of oceanic resources, public awareness of oceanic issues and needs, and the development and use of innovative technology to better understand the oceans.

Environmental Acoustics
Chair: Timothy F. Duda
Vice-Chair: (Asia-Pacific) Ruey-Chang Wei

Technical Scope: The Environmental Acoustics Committee covers the theory, design and operation of acoustic systems that are strongly affected by the complexities of propagation through the environment, or are intended to measure the environment. One focus is on the influence of temporal fluctuations and model mismatch on performance. Another is on the effects of spatial and temporal decorrelation on array systems. Other topics include intensity and phase fluctuation, multiple scattering, sub-bottom variability, and noise (ambient or event-like).

Current, Wave, and Turbulence Measurement
Chair Dr. Steven P. Anderson
Co-Chair Dr. Albert J. Williams 3rd
Vice-Chair (Europe) Sicco D. Kamminga
Vice-Chair (Asia-Pacific) Dr. Malcom L. Heron
Technical Scope: The Current, Wave, and Turbulence Measurement Technology Committee is concerned with methods of measuring current for studies of the general circulation; vertical and horizontal profiles of current in harbors and rivers; spatial mapping of currents in estuaries, rivers and dams; and boundary layer studies.

Global Earth Observing System of Systems
Chair Dr. Jay S. Pearlman
Co-Chair Stephen M. Holt
Vice-Chair (Europe) Dr. Christoph Waldmann
Technical Scope: The technology domain for the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) Technology Committee is in all aspects of this complex system of sensors, communication devices, storage systems, computational and other hardware elements. These entities are used in concert to improve the monitoring of the state of the Earth, to increase the understanding of Earth processes, and to enhance prediction of the behavior of the Earth system. GEOSS will link millions of established national, regional and international sources and datasets into a single network capable of tracking environmental changes in atmospheric, oceanic, and land-based ecosystems around the world. This system is expected to yield advances in knowledge in many areas of benefit to humankind, including disaster reduction, health, energy, climate, weather, water, and agriculture.

Sonar Signal and Image Processing
Chair James V. Candy
Co-Chair Dr. Edmund Sullivan
Vice-Chair (Europe) Dr. Jean-Pierre Hermand
Vice-Chair (Asia-Pacific) Prof. Akira Asada
Technical Scope: The technical scope of the Sonar Signal and Image Processing (SSIP) Technology Committee has an emphasis on sonar processing with a "focus" on the signal and image processing aspects including theory, algorithms and applications, both simulated and experimental.

Ocean Energy
Chair Claude P. Brancart
Co-Chair Dr. William M. Carey

Underwater Acoustics
Chair Dr. Kenneth G. Foote
Co-Chair Raymond J. Soukup
Vice-Chair (Europe) Prof. Manell E. Zakharia
Vice-Chair (Asia-Pacific) Prof. Masahiko Furusawa
Technical Scope: The domain of the Technology Committee on Underwater Acoustics encompasses many aspects of acoustics in the subsea environment. Principal concerns include: (1) design, fabrication, testing, and calibration of acoustic instruments such as transducers, transducer arrays, hydrophones, sound sources, sonar systems, and transponders; (2) use of acoustic instrumentation in the form of active and passive sonar systems for such applications as bottom mapping, underwater imaging, ocean measurement, observation and quantification of biological organisms, and target surveillance and tracking; (3) modeling and prediction of ocean acoustic characteristics, such as propagation, scattering, reverberation, and noise, which influence sonar system performance.

Unmanned Maritime Vehicles and Submersibles
Chair Claude P. Brancart
Co-Chair Dr. Hanu Singh
Co-Chair Justin Manley
Vice-Chair (Asia-Pacific) Hayato Kondo
Technical Scope: Unmanned Maritime Vehicles and Submersibles technology has progressed to the point that the vehicle as a transport medium is no longer the technical issue. Vehicles have been designed, built, and operated from the very small (micro) to the very large (20,000 lbs displacement).

Air/Space Remote Ocean Sensing
Chair Dr. David Weissman
Vice-Chair (Europe) Dr. Rene Garello
Technical Scope: The ultimate goal of ocean remote sensing is to be able to make accurate estimates of a selected set of geophysical variables, with the intention of either making predictions across time and spatial boundaries, or advancing fundamental knowledge through developing empirical relationships and/or theoretical models.

Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization
Chair Dr. Warren L.J. Fox
Technical Scope: The technology focus of the Modeling, Simulation, and Visualization Technology Committee encompasses all activities and products associated with computer oriented modeling, simulation and databases within ocean engineering and science. The Committee identifies three major issues to be focused on in the next few years. The first one concerns quality control in existing and developing databases and their user interfaces. The second relates to the need for a better description of applicable models, introducing the notion of an informal ?sunset law? for their codes. The third issue is attainment of a greater interdisciplinary interaction with workers in the other technical fields under OES cognizance. The Committee considers the activities in its domain to be primarily a service tool for solving concrete problems in the other areas of the ocean engineering arena, and intends to serve as a bridge - in a advisory capacity - between application needs and solution means.

Information Processing and Data Fusion
Chair William (Bill) Porto
Technical Scope: The focus of the Information Processing and Data Fusion Technology Committee encompasses virtually all aspects of data presentation, database design, filtering, modeling, and analysis. This committee directly benefits from advances in computer science, mathematics, and all physical sciences. Key research areas include data fusion, neural networks, computational intelligence, artificial intelligence, and visualization tools, among many others. Though there is considerable overlap with other technical committee areas, the focus of this committee is to utilize information acquired from one or more external sources (e.g., sonar imagery) and derive/implement/apply state-of-the-art computational methods to represent this data in a meaningful manner. Information processing techniques span the range from graphical user interface design to evolution of models that optimally classify ocean mammal signals.

Underwater Communication, Navigation, and Positioning
Chair Dr. Milica Stojanovic
Co-Chair Lee Freitag
Technical Scope: The technology areas of interest for the Committee are:
- Marine Communication: Communications systems used between all possible combinations of marine platforms, shore based facilities, and intermediate relay facilities.
- Navigation Systems: Systems which are used to derive present location and to provide the ability to move a platform to another relative or geographic location in the marine environment within a desired error budget.
- Positioning: Systems which are used to establish the position of platforms in the marine environment.

Subsea Optics and Vision
Chair Dr. Frank M. CaimiBR> Co-Chair Dr. Jules S. JaffeBR> Vice-Chair (Europe) Dr. John Watson
Technical Scope: The focus of the Subsea Optics and Vision Technology Committee consists of all aspects of electromagnetic technology for obtaining images or multidimensional data constructs useful in undersea sensing applications.

Oceanographic Instrumentation, Communication, Navigation, and Positioning
Chair Michael Harris, PE
Co-Chair Dr. Brian Bourgeois
Technical Scope: The technology interests of the Oceanographic Instrumentation, Communication, Navigation, and Positioning Technology Committee include new developments in oceanographic instrumentation and data acquisition, and their dissemination through workshops, conferences and publications; the solicitation and evaluation of papers related to instrumentation and data acquisition; and the development, evaluation and acceptance of standards for oceanographic measurements and acquisition of data.

Maritime Security and Critical Infrastructure Protection
Chair Pamela J. Hurst
Co-Chair Robert T. Bannon
Vice-Chair (Europe) Prof. Andrzej Stepnowski
Technical Scope: The technology focus of the Maritime Security and Critical Infrastructure Technology Committee (for the protection of Ocean and Maritime Infrastructure) encompasses all engineering activities and underwater products associated with monitoring, observation, and protection of intercoastal networks and ocean infrastructures, resources, and eco-systems.

Submarine Cable Technology, Commercial and Scientific
Chair Robert T. Bannon
Co-Chair Pamela J. Hurst
Vice-Chair (Europe) Gary Waterworth
Vice-Chair (Asia-Pacific) Dr. Kenichi
Technical Scope: The technology focus of the Submarine Cable Technology Committee encompasses all engineering activities and underwater products associated with underwater fiber optic telecommunications systems, networks, and underwater observatories. This includes transoceanic and festooned fiber applications, and the revitalization and reuse of first and second generation fiber optic technologies for acoustic information and data transfer for scientific ocean engineering.