Brandy Armstrong, OES Student Activities Chair and Social Media Coordinator
Does your Chapter or Student Branch Chapter need funds to kickstart a member drive or pay for chapter events? Do you or another member of your geographic unit need assistance with travel to the next OCEANS conference? IEEE OES has funding available this year for two NEW programs that could help raise money for your geographic unit or fund member travel to OCEANS. The first program describes how to apply for Student Branch Chapter support funding and the second program describes how to apply for Social Media Initiative funding. To participate, all proposals must be submitted before September 30th 2018, which will allow OES to disburse the funds before the end of the year. Sending in applications early will help to ensure funding is still available!
Students mingle with Oceanic Engineer Society committee members during the OCEANS’17
Anchorage student mixer.
Student Branch Chapter Support Program
The IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) has begun a new Student Branch Chapter (SBC) support program. This program is designed to provide financial support to the SBCs for the following:
- Financial support to a maximum of two SBC chairs or representatives to attend each OCEANS conference where they will be involved in supporting the society, the conference and promoting student activities and participation.
- Financial support, up to a maximum of $2,000, for SBC initiatives such as technology demonstrations and/or participation in contests/competitions where OES related technologies are demonstrated.
The financial support for travel to OCEANS and for technology initiatives will be based on the available funds and the activity of the SBCs. Funding will also be considered for activities that can “kick start” an SBC to increase its society involvement.
To participate, 90 days prior to the date funds are required, the SBC should provide the student activities coordinator, Brandy Armstrong, the name and contact information of the SBC chair or representative who is nominated to attend the next OCEANS conference.
And/or, the SBCs interested in a technology initiative can provide a not to exceed one-page request for support that indicates the following:
- Description of the initiative
- Identify who in the SBC is involved
- What the benefit to the SBC and the OES will be
- Required amount and time frame for the funding
- Existing funding (student chapter funding, local chapter funding)
In addition, both travel support and technology initiative requests will need to include:
- Description of plans to share (website, information, photos, video) the supported activity on social media (IEEE OES LinkedIn group—https://www.linkedin.com/groups/151980, Facebook page—https://www.facebook.com/IEEEOES/, Twitter—https://twitter.com/ieee_oes)
- Timeline for submitting a Beacon article detailing the supported activity once it has been completed
Those SBCs interested should send inquiries to the student activities chair brandy.armstrong.us@ieee.org.
Supporting OES Social Media Through Member Involvement Program
The IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) has a new IEEE OES organizational units support program. This program is designed to provide financial support up to a maximum of $2,000, to the branches and chapters for the following:
- Build a website and social media pages for their unit and maintain an active presence
- Provide Live coverage of an OES sponsored event/conference (such as OCEANS) on their unit’s existing social media pages (tagging OES) and on OES social media pages. Travel expenses for one person or a Maximum $2000 for a locally hosted event. See requirements below.
- Contribute to themes chosen for the social media calendar by writing and submitting articles covering IEEE OES member activities to Earthzine & Beacon, recording videos of IEEE OES lectures/events, or blogging on their local chapter/branch website (this would require submitting articles to be reviewed/edited for appropriateness).
- Run a campaign (membership drive, meme contest, video/picture contest, etc.) to bring attention and followers to OES social media.
- Funding will also be considered for creative activities that can “kick start” OES social media presence by increasing the number of followers. Be creative and propose another way to enhance the OES social media presence.
The financial support for travel to events and for social media initiatives will be based on the available funds and the activity of the units.
To participate, 90 days prior to the date funds are required, the unit should provide the social media coordinator, Brandy Armstrong, the name and contact information of the unit chair or representative who is nominated to attend and provide live coverage of an event and/or, the unit interested in a social media initiative can provide a not to exceed one-page request for support that indicates the following:
Follow @IEEE on Twitter for the latest OCEANS updates, society news and to get the scoop on cutting edge ocean technology.
- Description of the initiative
- Identify who in the unit is involved
- What the benefit to the unit and the OES will be
In addition, social media initiative requests will need to include: - Description of planned schedule for sharing (website, information, photos, video) the supported activity on social media (IEEE OES LinkedIn group—https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1519807, Facebook page—https://www.facebook.com/IEEEOES/, Twitter—https://twitter.com/ieee_oes)
- Timeline for submitting an Earthzine or Beacon article detailing the supported activity once it has been completed
Those geographic units interested should send inquiries to the social media coordinator brandy.armstrong.us@ieee.org.
Rules for Official IEEE OES Social Media Posting
- Follow IEEE social media policy https://brand-experience.ieee.org/guidelines/digital/social-media/
- Use relevant popular hashtags and OES tags and hashtags
Like and Follow IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society on Facebook to
view live feed and update from OCEANS’18 Kobe.
Requirements to Receive Funding for Social Media Reporting at OES Sponsored Conferences/Events
- Must be willing and able to acquire (purchase or borrow) and use a smart phone (or other multimedia device) to take pictures and recordings and post to social media during the event
- Prior to conference, review the schedule and write out a schedule/plan for what sessions, activities and interviews will be covered each day (requirements below) and how they will be incorporated into a Beacon article or video required to be submitted following the event. This plan must be submitted 2 weeks ahead of the event to the social media coordinator Brandy Armstrong at brandy.armstrong.us@ieee.org.
- Sessions: Reporters must cover at least two sessions (2 posts if there is only one session) in the morning, two in the afternoon, each day that there are sessions (at least 4 post a day related to session coverage). Each post must contain 40-100 characters of text.
- Activities: Reporters must attend at least 2 social activities and post at least 2 photos from each mixer, reception, gala or other social activity attended. Each post must contain 40-100 characters of text.
- Competitions:
- For a competition held in conjunction with a conference, reporter must interview 3 or more competitors, quote them (40–100 characters) with photo of the competitors with their entry or do a short live interview (3–5 minutes).
- If the event being covered is solely a competition (no associated conference), reporter must interview at least 4 teams for each day that the competition is taking place and record live video of the final rounds of competition. If possible, contact teams ahead of time to set up interviews.
- Vendors/new technology: At least once a day do a short (1–5 min) “live” interview with a vendor at their booth covering new technology/cutting edge science—use both vendor tags and OES tags
- Members: At least once a day do a short (1–5 min) “live” interview with an OES member or chapter (anyone who is actively involved is great) preferably in front of a backdrop with the OES logo on it
- Miscellaneous: other events/topics could be of interest to cover on OES social media. Please include this in the written plan for prior approval.
- Prior to conference, ensure social media apps are installed on your smart phone to access Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
- Following the conference, submit an article to Beacon that is 1000 to 1600 words long and contains 5-10 pictures or submit a video compilation from the event that is 10 to 18 minutes long. Or some combination of the two. Submissions could cover: new technology, cutting edge research, competitions associated with the conference, member involvement, or another topic with prior approval.
For additional information please contact Brandy Armstrong at brandy.armstrong.us@ieee.org.
Suleman Mazhar has been working as a professor in Information & Communication Engineering at Harbin Engineering University (China) since July 2019. He did PhD from Tokyo University (Japan) and postdoctorate from Georgetown University (Washington DC, USA). He had BS-CS from FAST-NUCES (Lahore) and MS from GIK Institute (Pakistan). He is TYSP young scientist fellow (Ministry of Science & Technology China) and have won several research grants from international organizations such as DAAD (Germany), ICIMOD (Nepal), NRPU (Higher Education Commission Pakistan), WWF (Worldwide Fund for Nature) Pakistan. His research focus is deep learning and signal processing applications for environmental monitoring, with particular focus on underwater acoustics, and marine mammal conservation. He is a reviewer for professional journals such as Journal of Acoustical Society (America), IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, IEEE Sensors Journal, Applied Acoustics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Peng Ren is a full professor with the College of Oceanography and Space Informatics, China University of Petroleum (East China). He is the director of Qingdao International Research Center for Intelligent Forecast and Detection of Oceanic Catastrophes. He received the K. M. Scott Prize from the University of York, the Natural Science award (first rank) from China Institute of Electronics, and the Eduardo Caianiello Best Student Paper Award from 18th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing as one co-author. He has served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
Mohd Rizal Arshad is a full professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia, where he specializes in ocean robotics technology and intelligent system. He received his B.Eng. in Medical Electronics & Instrumentation and PhD in Electronic Engineering from University of Liverpool, UK in 1994 and 1999, respectively. He completed his MSc. in Electronic Control Engineering from the University of Salford, UK in Dec 1995. He has supervised many postgraduate students and published extensively in local and international publications. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and was awarded IEEE OES Presidential Award in 2019.
Itzik Klein is an Assistant Professor, heading the Autonomous Navigation and Sensor Fusion Lab, at the Charney School of Marine Sciences, Hatter Department of Marine Technologies, University of Haifa. He is an IEEE Senior Member and a member of the IEEE Journal of Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation (J-ISPIN) Editorial Board. Prior to joining the University of Haifa, he worked at leading companies in Israel on navigation topics for more than 15 years. He has a wide range of experience in navigation systems and sensor fusion from both industry and academic perspectives. His research interests lie in the intersection of artificial intelligence with inertial sensing, sensor fusion, and autonomous underwater vehicles.
John R. Potter (IEEE M’94, SM’02, F’18) graduated in the previous century with a joint honours Mathematics and Physics Degree from Bristol and a PhD. in Glaciology and Oceanography from Cambridge, UK studying Antarctic ice mass balance, where he spent four consecutive summers. This work helped underscore the non-linear fragility of polar ice to climate change and led to him receiving the Polar Medal from Queen Elizabeth II in 1988.
Nick is a Visiting Fellow at the UK National Oceanographic Center, Southampton His nomination was endorsed by the Underwater Acoustics Technology Committee. He had worked as a Research Associate and Lecturer at University of Birmingham and has been working as a Research Scientist at the Applied Research Laboratory, University of Texas, Austin. He has also served as a Program Officer at the Office of Naval Research Global. He is a senior member of IEEE (OES) and a Fellow of Acoustical Society of America (ASA). Nick has also been serving as Assoc. Editor for IEEE JoE and JASA. He is widely acknowledged for his expertise are seabed acoustics, parametric array modeling, sonar beamformer, underwater signal processing.
Maurizio Migliaccio (M’91-SM’00-F’17) is Full professor of Electromagnetics at Università di Napoli Parthenope (Italy) and was Affiliated Full Professor at NOVA Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL (USA). He has been teaching Microwave Remote Sensing since 1994. He was visiting scientist at Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fur Lüft und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. He was member of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) scientific committee. He was member of the ASI CosmoSkyMed second generation panel. He was e-geos AdCom member. He was Italian delegate of the ESA PB-EO board. He was Member of South Africa Expert Review Panel for Space Exploration. He serves as reviewer for the UE, Italian Research Ministry (MIUR), NCST, Kazakhstan and Hong Kong Research board. He lectured in USA, Canada, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, Switzerland and Italy. He was Italian delegate at UE COST SMOS Mode Action. He is listed in the Italian Top Scientists. He is an IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing AE, International Journal of Remote Sensing AE, and was IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering AE Special Issue on Radar for Marine and Maritime Remote Sensing, IEEE JSTARS AE of the Special Issue on CosmoSKyMed, Member of the Indian Journal of Radio & Space Physics Editorial board. His main current scientific interests cover SAR sea oil slick and man-made target monitoring, remote sensing for marine and coastal applications, remote sensing for agriculture monitoring, polarimetry, inverse problems for resolution enhancement, reverberating chambers. He published about 160 peer-reviewed journal papers on remote sensing and applied electromagnetics.
He has developed various types of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and related application technologies including navigation methods, a new sensing method using a chemical sensor, precise seafloor mapping methods, a precise seabed positioning system with a resolution of a few centimeters, a new sensing system of the thickness of cobalt-rich crust; and more. He has shown, by using these technologies that AUVs are practicable and valuable tools for deep-sea exploration.
Donna Kocak has had an outstanding career in defense and scientific projects developing and applying solutions in subsea optics, imaging and robotics. She graduated with an M.Sc in Computer Science in 1997 from the University of Central Florida; an MBA in 2008 from the University of Florida; and M.Sc in Industrial Engineering in 2011 from the University of Central Florida. She is currently a Senior Scientist, Advanced Concepts Engineering, and Fellow at the Harris Corporation in Melbourne, Florida, where she has developed novel optical imaging and communication solutions for under-sea defense and scientific projects. Prior to 2008 Donna Kocak was Founder and President of Green Sky Imaging, LLC (GSI) who developed laser/video photogrammetry software for underwater inspection and survey. Her earlier career positions were with Naval Training Systems Center, Florida; Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Florida; eMerge Interactive; and the Advanced Technologies Group in Florida.
John Potter has a Joint Honours degree in Mathematics and Physics from Bristol University in the UK and a PhD in Glaciology and Oceanography from the University of Cambridge on research in the Antarctic, for which he was awarded the Polar Medal in 1988. John has worked on polar oceanography, underwater acoustics, ambient noise (including imaging), marine mammals, communications, IoUT, autonomous vehicles and strategic development. He has 40 years’ international experience working at the British Antarctic Survey in the UK, NATO in Italy, SIO in California, NUS in Singapore and most recently at NTNU in Norway. John is a Fellow of the IEEE and MTS, an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, IEEE OES Distinguished Lecturer, PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer & an International Fellow of the Explorer’s Club.
Dr. James V. Candy is the Chief Scientist for Engineering and former Director of the Center for Advanced Signal & Image Sciences at the University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Candy received a commission in the USAF in 1967 and was a Systems Engineer/Test Director from 1967 to 1971. He has been a Researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory since 1976 holding various positions including that of Project Engineer for Signal Processing and Thrust Area Leader for Signal and Control Engineering. Educationally, he received his B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Cincinnati and his M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville. He is a registered Control System Engineer in the state of California. He has been an Adjunct Professor at San Francisco State University, University of Santa Clara, and UC Berkeley, Extension teaching graduate courses in signal and image processing. He is an Adjunct Full-Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Candy is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and elected as a Life Member (Fellow) at the University of Cambridge (Clare Hall College). He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Phi Kappa Phi honorary societies. He was elected as a Distinguished Alumnus by the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Candy received the IEEE Distinguished Technical Achievement Award for the “development of model-based signal processing in ocean acoustics.” Dr. Candy was selected as a IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for oceanic signal processing as well as presenting an IEEE tutorial on advanced signal processing available through their video website courses. He was nominated for the prestigious Edward Teller Fellowship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Candy was awarded the Interdisciplinary Helmholtz-Rayleigh Silver Medal in Signal Processing/Underwater Acoustics by the Acoustical Society of America for his technical contributions. He has published over 225 journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports as well as written three texts in signal processing, “Signal Processing: the Model-Based Approach,” (McGraw-Hill, 1986), “Signal Processing: the Modern Approach,” (McGraw-Hill, 1988), “Model-Based Signal Processing,” (Wiley/IEEE Press, 2006) and “Bayesian Signal Processing: Classical, Modern and Particle Filtering” (Wiley/IEEE Press, 2009). He was the General Chairman of the inaugural 2006 IEEE Nonlinear Statistical Signal Processing Workshop held at the Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. He has presented a variety of short courses and tutorials sponsored by the IEEE and ASA in Applied Signal Processing, Spectral Estimation, Advanced Digital Signal Processing, Applied Model-Based Signal Processing, Applied Acoustical Signal Processing, Model-Based Ocean Acoustic Signal Processing and Bayesian Signal Processing for IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society/ASA. He has also presented short courses in Applied Model-Based Signal Processing for the SPIE Optical Society. He is currently the IEEE Chair of the Technical Committee on “Sonar Signal and Image Processing” and was the Chair of the ASA Technical Committee on “Signal Processing in Acoustics” as well as being an Associate Editor for Signal Processing of ASA (on-line JASAXL). He was recently nominated for the Vice Presidency of the ASA and elected as a member of the Administrative Committee of IEEE OES. His research interests include Bayesian estimation, identification, spatial estimation, signal and image processing, array signal processing, nonlinear signal processing, tomography, sonar/radar processing and biomedical applications.
Kenneth Foote is a Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The George Washington University in 1968, and a Ph.D. in Physics from Brown University in 1973. He was an engineer at Raytheon Company, 1968-1974; postdoctoral scholar at Loughborough University of Technology, 1974-1975; research fellow and substitute lecturer at the University of Bergen, 1975-1981. He began working at the Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, in 1979; joined the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1999. His general area of expertise is in underwater sound scattering, with applications to the quantification of fish, other aquatic organisms, and physical scatterers in the water column and on the seafloor. In developing and transitioning acoustic methods and instruments to operations at sea, he has worked from 77°N to 55°S.
René Garello, professor at Télécom Bretagne, Fellow IEEE, co-leader of the TOMS (Traitements, Observations et Méthodes Statistiques) research team, in Pôle CID of the UMR CNRS 3192 Lab-STICC.
Professor Mal Heron is Adjunct Professor in the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, and is CEO of Portmap Remote Ocean Sensing Pty Ltd. His PhD work in Auckland, New Zealand, was on radio-wave probing of the ionosphere, and that is reflected in his early ionospheric papers. He changed research fields to the scattering of HF radio waves from the ocean surface during the 1980s. Through the 1990s his research has broadened into oceanographic phenomena which can be studied by remote sensing, including HF radar and salinity mapping from airborne microwave radiometers . Throughout, there have been one-off papers where he has been involved in solving a problem in a cognate area like medical physics, and paleobiogeography. Occasionally, he has diverted into side-tracks like a burst of papers on the effect of bushfires on radio communications. His present project of the Australian Coastal Ocean Radar Network (ACORN) is about the development of new processing methods and applications of HF radar data to address oceanography problems. He is currently promoting the use of high resolution VHF ocean radars, based on the PortMap high resolution radar.
Hanu Singh graduated B.S. ECE and Computer Science (1989) from George Mason University and Ph.D. (1995) from MIT/Woods Hole.He led the development and commercialization of the Seabed AUV, nine of which are in operation at other universities and government laboratories around the world. He was technical lead for development and operations for Polar AUVs (Jaguar and Puma) and towed vehicles(Camper and Seasled), and the development and commercialization of the Jetyak ASVs, 18 of which are currently in use. He was involved in the development of UAS for polar and oceanographic applications, and high resolution multi-sensor acoustic and optical mapping with underwater vehicles on over 55 oceanographic cruises in support of physical oceanography, marine archaeology, biology, fisheries, coral reef studies, geology and geophysics and sea-ice studies. He is an accomplished Research Student advisor and has made strong collaborations across the US (including at MIT, SIO, Stanford, Columbia LDEO) and internationally including in the UK, Australia, Canada, Korea, Taiwan, China, Japan, India, Sweden and Norway. Hanu Singh is currently Chair of the IEEE Ocean Engineering Technology Committee on Autonomous Marine Systems with responsibilities that include organizing the biennial IEEE AUV Conference, 2008 onwards. Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2007-2011. Associate editor, Journal of Field Robotics 2012 onwards.
Milica Stojanovic graduated from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1988, and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, in 1991 and 1993. She was a Principal Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 2008 joined Northeastern University, where she is currently a Professor of electrical and computer engineering. She is also a Guest Investigator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Milica’s research interests include digital communications theory, statistical signal processing and wireless networks, and their applications to underwater acoustic systems. She has made pioneering contributions to underwater acoustic communications, and her work has been widely cited. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, and serves as an Associate Editor for its Journal of Oceanic Engineering (and in the past for Transactions on Signal Processing and Transactions on Vehicular Technology). She also serves on the Advisory Board of the IEEE Communication Letters, and chairs the IEEE Ocean Engineering Society’s Technical Committee for Underwater Communication, Navigation and Positioning. Milica is the recipient of the 2015 IEEE/OES Distinguished Technical Achievement Award.
Dr. Paul C. Hines was born and raised in Glace Bay, Cape Breton. From 1977-1981 he attended Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, graduating with a B.Sc. (Hon) in Engineering-Physics.