Newsletter of the Oceanic Engineering Society MAY 2016, Volume 5, Number 2 www.ieeeoes.org (USPS 025-095) ISSN 2164-8042 The OES BEACON is published four times a year as a benefit to the membership of the IEEE Ocean Engineering Society. The OES Beacon is printed and distributed from IEEE headquarters in New York City, New York, USA. Editor-in-Chief: Associate Editors: Contributing Editors: Harumi Sugimatsu – [email protected]. Masakazu Arima Australia – Mal Heron ac.jp Kenichi Asakawa Canada – Ferial El-Hawary Co-Editor-in-Chief: Katsuyoshi Kawaguchi France – Philippe Courmontague Robert L. Wernli – [email protected] Toshihiro Maki Germany – Christoph Waldmann IEEE OES VP – Professional Activities Takumi Matsuda India – M. 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Table of Contents From the President .......................................................................................3 From the OES BEACON Editors ...........................................................................4 OES Interoperability Standards Initiative for the Marine Environment: an overview .................................4 From the Editor’s desk: Shanghai Adventures .................................................................7 Dr. Glen N. Williams, 1938–2016 ...........................................................................8 Awards for OES members and their families .................................................................10 Chapter News ..........................................................................................12 Ad. on AUV2016 ........................................................................................17 Ad. on UT17 ...........................................................................................18 COA 2016 – In the ‘Ice City’, IEEE/OES sponsors the first international symposium focused on ocean acoustics in China ..............................................................................19 IEEE-OES Smiling Faces at Oceanology International 2016/London .............................................22 OTC Asia 16 BEACON Report – OTC Asia 16 Kuala Lumpur 22–25 March 2016 ...................................22 OTC Houston Attracts 68,000 .............................................................................23 Upcoming OES Sponsored conferences, Symposia and Workshops ...............................................24 Our Future is with Oceans ...............................................................................26 Student Poster Competition, OCEANS’16 MTS/IEEE Shanghai .................................................29 Winning Poster Paper ...................................................................................35 The Sea and OCEANS 2016/Monterey ......................................................................39 Ad. on Techno-Ocean 2016 ...............................................................................42 IEEE Sensors Council AdCom Meeting in La Jolla Village, April 4–5, 2016 .......................................43 GEO Blue Planet – a contribution to ocean monitoring and applications .........................................43 Manual for Real-Time Quality Control of Water Level Data ....................................................46 From Earthzine: NOAA’s Chief Scientist Charts Course Toward a New Blue Economy ...............................46 EarthNow Featured at Earthzine ..........................................................................48 CoolTech: Polystyrene instrumentation spheres ..............................................................49 Member Highlights ......................................................................................50 Who’s Who in the OES ...................................................................................51 OES Members in Print ...................................................................................51 IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Election for Election of Members to the Administrative Committee Nominees for the Term 1 January 2017–31 December 2019 ...........................................51 Welcome New and Reinstated Members .....................................................................59 MATE ROV Competition RANGER Class Winners AMNO & CO Demonstrate ROV at the White House Science Fair .....60 OES Supports First Flight High School “Phytofinders” ........................................................62 OES Awards Student Scholarships .........................................................................64 From the President we’ll held our ExCom, in July and the 7th Bien- Greetings nial Baltic International Symposium in Ventspils, We are just a month out of the first Oceans’16 of Latvia at the end of August. the year. This was an extremely dynamic confer- And hopefully, I don’t forget any … ence in Shanghai, China including a large number Just before the Shanghai OCEANS confer- of papers and a very lively exhibit. All our con- ence, we received the sad news that one of our gratulations to the Local Organizing Committee former Presidents, Glen Williams, passed away. (LOC) and the General Chair, Prof. Lian Lian. His wife, Mary, gave us the information And now we are already entering the last lap (quote): “Glen died peacefully shortly after before finish line for the Oceans’16 in Monterey, waking up this morning.” CA. Prior to the conference we will have (and we Glen was instrumental in bringing OCEANS have already had) several other events either co-organized by out of Northern America, and especially to France (Brest in 1994 OES or to which our participation is important: OTC (beginning and Nice in 1998). In this sense he was my mentor inside OES. of May) in Houston, TX; Argencon 2016 (3rd IEEE/OES South There is a complete section in this newsletter devoted to his American International Symposium) in mid-June, SAUC-E, the memory. Student Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Challenge in La Spe- In our last AdCom in Shanghai we discussed the pros and cons zia Italy, at the beginning of July; POCO (Panel of Conference of a new proposal from the IEEE Board of Directors for a constitu- Organizers in Montreal, Canada,