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Annual Student Poster Competition

IEEE/OES Ed Early Student Poster Competition

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 2011 SANTANDER SPAIN

The judges are, from left to right: by Dr. Ellen S. Livingston, Associate Director, Ocean and Underseas Science, U.S. Office of Naval Research Global: Dr. Rene Garello; Dr. Christophe Sintes; and Dr. Jose Luis Arteche, Chair of the Student Posters.

The 28th Student Poster Program of the OCEANS Conferences was held at OCEANS 2011 SANTANDER Spain June 6-9, 2011. Once again the program was technically very interesting and well appreciated by the student participants as well as those attending the Conference. The Student Poster Program was organized by Dr. Jose Luis Arteche, Senior Scientist, Spanish Meteorological Agency. He was assisted by Dr. Christophe Sintes, Telecom-Bretagne, France. The program was supported by funding from ONR Global which enabled the students to attend the conference. The Conference provided the Student Participants with full registration for all events. Forty student poster abstracts were received and twenty students were invited to participate. Ten abstracts were received from the United States, ten from Asian countries, and twenty from European countries. Unfortunately only fourteen students were able to attend and present their posters. The posters were displayed in a section of the Exhibition Hall and received a lot of attention during the breaks and at lunch time when the students were at their posters.

The students were assembled on Monday afternoon for instructions and each of them introduced themselves and made a short presentation on the goals of their research and the background of their poster. Then before the ice breaker a short aperitif was organized for all the students to meet and mingle as a group. The posters were judged by a team of six judges who were very busy during the event. At the Gala Dinner all of the Student Poster participants were introduced. After a short introduction by Pr. Rene’ Garello of Telecom Bretagne, the awards were announced. The awards were presented to the students by Dr. Ellen S. Livingston, Associate Director, Ocean and Underseas Science, U.S. Office of Naval Research Global, Dr. Jose Luis Arteche, Chair of the Student Poster Competition and Dr. Christophe Sintes. The winning students were:

1st Place
Sarab Tay – Telecom Bretagne, France

2nd Place
Gregory Julien – IFREMER, France
Isabel Caballero – Andalusian Institute of Marine Sciences, Spain

3rd Place
Hector Fabian Guarnizo Mendez – Telecom Bretagne, France
Fredrico Traverso – University of Genoa, Italy
Yanira Guanche – Cantabria University, Spain

Following the awards presentations the audience was asked to give the students a round of applause. The students were announced as members of the “OCEANS Student Poster Alumni Association” The audience was also invited to visit the posters and review the great work by all of the students. The students were all invited to receive a membership in the IEEE/OES. The roster of students and their poster titles is:

Yanira Guanche, Water and Environmental Sciences and Techniques Department, Canabria University, Spain
“A multivariate approach to estimate design loads for offshore wind turbines”

Jacob Izraelevitz, Franklin Olin College of Engineering, USA
“Optimal Trajectory Generation for Draped AUV Gravity Surveys”

Hector Fabian Guarnizo Mendez, Telecom-Bretagne, France

Hans Christian Woithe, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
“Using Slocum Gliders for Coordinated Spatial Sampling”

Gregory Julien, IFREMER and Collaboration with the French National Center for Scientic Research, France
“A comparison between the classical Pulse Compression and the improved WV-SMF-PC on IFREMER sea trial signals”

Sarab Tay, Telecom-Bretagne, France
“Near Sea Surface Target Tracking by Extended Kalman Filtering of the GPS Reflected Signals”

Jian Cui, Kobe University Graduate School of Maritime Sciences, Japan
“Ocean Wave Observation by GPS Signal”

Federico Traverso, Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering, University of Genoa, Italy
“Tuning the performance of the superdirective frequency-invariant beamforming applied to end-fire arrays”

Mark Van Middlesworth, Harvard University/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, USA
“A Heterogoneous Rapid-Turnaround Visualization Package for AUV Data”

Isabel Caballero, Andalusian Institute of Marine Sciences and the High Conseil for Scientific Research in Cadiz, Spain
“Dynamics of turbidity plume in the Guadalquivir estuary (SW Spain): A remote sensing approach”

Meng Cai, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
“Passive Acoustic Detection of a Small Remotely Operated Vehicle”

Kyung Woon Lee, Korea University of Seoul, Republic of Korea

Pauline Vincent, Telecom-Bretagne, France
“Doppler Effect of Bathymetry using Frequency Modulated Multibeam Echo Sounders”

Pablo Pla Caro, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
“Unmanned localization of sperm whales in realistic scenarios”

OCEANS 2010 MTS/IEEE SEATTLE STUDENT POSTER PROGRAM

The 27th Student Poster Program of the OCEANS Conference Series was held in Seattle, where the Student Poster first began at OCEANS'89. The OCEANS Conference was held in the Washington State Conference and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington September 20-23, 2010. Once again the program was very successful and was greatly appreciated  by the student participants. The program was organized by Colonel Norman D. Miller, IEEE/OES, and was supported by a grant from ONR. Fifty eight student poster abstracts were received and twenty six students invited to participate. Thirty five abstracts were received from the US, ten from Asian Countries, eleven from European countries and three from Canada. Unfortunately the dates of the conference conflicted with many of the students school schedules and as a result only eighteen students were able to attend and present their posters.  The posters were displayed in a section of the Exhibition Hall and received a lot of attention during the breaks and lunch times.

    1st Place - Michael Shives - University of Victoria, Canada

    2nd Place - Mathew Harrison - University of Southampton, UK
                       - Nicole Nichols - University of Washington, Seattle, WA

    3rd Place - Nasir Ahsan - Australian Center for Field Robotics, Sydney
                      - Sarah Howse - Memorial University of Newfoundland
                      - Ruth Mullins - Texas A&M University

OCEANS’10 IEEE SYDNEY STUDENT POSTER PROGRAM

The twenty sixth Student Poster Program of the OCEANS Conference series was held as a part of OCEANS’10 IEEE Sydney, Sydney, Australia.  The program was organized by Dr. Stefan Williams, University of Sydney, and was supported by a grant from ONR Global.  Sixty one abstracts were received and twenty one were accepted for presentation. Nineteen students were invited to participate.  Two students had two posters accepted and displayed.  Ten countries were represented; France, Norway, New Zealand, India, Spain, USA, Australia, Scotland, Germany and Japan. The posters were displayed in the Exhibition Hall where the conference attendees passed by and observed them.  The students gave short presentations describing their work at three scheduled session on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning. This facilitated the judging and also gave the students and opportunity to make a group presentation.

 The judging was completed by noon on Wednesday and the awards were presented at the Gala  Function in Luna Park that evening.  Dr. Williams and Mr. Norman D. Miller reviewed the work of the judges and selected the winning posters.  At the Gala Function, the Conference Chairman, Dr. Brian Ferguson called Mr. Miller to relate the history of the program and to present the certificates and award. Mr. Miller noted that to date 482 posters had been displayed at the OCEANS Conferences since the program began at OCEANS ’89 in Seattle. Dr. Williams called the students forward and each received a certificate of their participation from Mr. Miller.  The last six students called were the award winners.  In addition to their participation certificate they received a monetary award. The students were assembled on stage for group photos and then Mr. Miller proclaimed that they were now members of the “OCEANS Student Poster Alumni Association” and  asked the audience to recognize the students by their applause.

 The roster of students and their poster titles is:

Anuj Sehgal, Jacobs University, Germany 
“Modeling Underwater Acoustic Communications for Multi-Robot Missions in a Robotics Simulator”

Edmund Brekke, Unik, Norway
“The Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Human Divers”

Aaron Fisher, Florida Atlantic University, USA
“Station Keeping of Small Outboard-Powered Boats”

Angelos Mallios, Universitat de Girona, Spain
“Probabilistic Sonar Scan Matching SLAM for Underwater Environment”

Francesco Maurelli, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland (UK)
“Particle Diversity Reduction for AUV’S Active Localisation”

Ariell Friedman, Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney, Australia
“Rugosity, Slope and Aspect Derived from Bathymetric Stereo Image 3D Reconstructions”

Daniel Steinberg, Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney, Australia
“Dirichlet Process Mixture Models for Autonomous Habitat Classification”

Francois-Xavier Socheleau, Telecom Bretagne, France
“A Maximum Entropy Framework for Statistical Modeling of Underwater Acoustic Communication Channels”

Edmund Brekke, Unik, Norway
“Target Tracking in State Dependent Wake Clutter”

Jo Borchsenius, Auckland University of Technology. New Zealand
“Underwater Glider Propulsion Using Chemical Hybrides”

Divya Parihar, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
“Time Reversal Mirror: Temporal an Spatial Focusing Tool”

Serge Pons Freixes, Marine Technology Unit, Centre Mediterrani d’Investigacions Marines/Ambientals, Spain
“Video-Image Porocessing Applied to the Analysis of the Behavior of Deep-Water Lobsters (Nephrops norvegicus)”

Gabrielle Inglis, University of Rhode Island, USA
“Constrained Stereo Correspondence for 3D Seafloor Reconstruction”

Lashika Medagoda, Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney, Australia
“Water Column Current Profile Aided Localisation for Autonomous Vehicles”

Eric Ferguson, University of Sydney, Australia
“Precise Sound Source Localisation of Dolphin Biosonar Pulse Transmissions”

Anuj Sehgal, Jacobs University, Germany
“Effects of Climate Change and Anthropogenic Ocean Acidification on Underwater Acoustic Communications”

Elena Torrecilia, Marine Technology Unit, Centre Mediterrani d’Investigacions Marine/Ambientals, Spain*
“Mapping Marine Phytoplankton Assemblages From a Hyperspectral and Artificial Intelligence Perspective”
*Poster presented by Ismael F. Aymerich

Michael Stanway, MIT/WHOI, USA
“Water Profile Navigation with an Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler”

Natalia Hurtos, Universitat de Girona, Spain
“Calibration of Optical Camera Coupled to Acoustic Multibeam for Underwater 3D Scene Reconstruction”

M. Azizur Rahman, University of Ryukyus, Japan
“The Role of Carbonic Anhydrase Enzyne in the Biocalcification Process of Coral and its Resilience to Global Climate Change”

Bryan McGilvray, University of Rhode Island, USA
“Control System Performance and Efficiency for a Mid-Depth Lagrangian Profiling Float”

The judging team attended the oral presentations and then reviewed each poster with the student in attendance. The judges turned in their rating sheets and Dr. Williams and Mr. Miller reviewed the results and selected the winners as follows:

1^st Place – Ariell Friedman

2^nd Place – Francois-Xavier Socheleau
                      Anuj Sehgal

3^rd Place – Gabrielle Inglis
                     Lashika Medagoda
                     M. Azizur Rahman

Each student received a round of applause as they received their award. 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. Once again the Student Poster Program had achieved its objective of showing students what the field of Oceanic Engineering was all about.

Norman D. Miller, P.E.
Student Activities Coordinator
IEEE/OES

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:

            1^stPlace  -  Dennis Waldron

             2^ndPlace– Virgilio Maisonet

-- Ruth Mullins

            3^rdPlace– 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

Gallery of OCEANS ’09 IEEE Bremen Student Posters

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. 

 

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:

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”

OTO '08 Student Poster Competition Winners with Susumu Araki, Norm Miller, Walter Jones, and Ken Takagi

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: 

Ms. Hongyan Zhang receives her First Place Award from Dr. Walter Jones

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

 OCEANS '07 IEEE Aberdeen Student Poster Competition

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 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