Student Poster Winners

A very fine display of posters was presented by 17 students for the Student Poster Session at OCEANS '05 Europe. 24 abstracts were received from Asia, Europe, Canada and the USA. 18 abstracts were accepted. However one student had to cancel out. An additional student from Brest presented a poster, but was not included in the poster judging. Once again a wide display of topics was presented and represented very interesting work. All of the posters were presented by graduate students. The Student Poster session was organized by Jean-Marc LeCaillec, ENSTE-Bretagne. The posters were displayed in a fine location in the Exhibits area of LeQuartz Conference Center and were heavily visited by the Conference attendees. The posters were:

Sara Adams - Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. Johns, Canada
“Environmental monitoring of a fish processing effluent plume in Coastal Newfoundland waters”

Philip Barclay - University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
“MAP estimation of seafloor topography using multifrequency synthetic aperture sonar”

Tom Fedenczuk - University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
“Real Time Ocean Research Education: Methods and technologies for outreach during a ship-based research cruise”

Jose Garcia - University of Hanover, Hanover, Germany
“Accurate Positioning for Underwater Acoustic Networks”

Alan Hunter - University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
“Towards more accurate shadow modeling in simulated SAS imagery”

Viorela Ila - University of GIrona, Girona, Spain
“VLSI Architecture for Underwater Robot Vision System”

Laurent Marrec - Ecole Nationale d'Ingenieur de Brest, Brest, France
“In-situ optical fiber sensors for temperature and salinity monitoring”

Rusian May - State Oceanographic Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
“Simulation of climatic significant nonlinear tidal phenomena in the Euro Arctic Seas”

Eva-Marie Nosal - University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
“Pair-wise processing for localization of multiple broadband CW sources”

Dazhi Piao - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Bejing, China
“The effect of space and time correlation on the underwater acoustic MIMO channel capacity”

Edward Pilbrow - University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
“Autofocus of Active Beacons for the Towpath of a Synthetic Aperture Sonar”

David Redpath - Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
“A methodology for underwater video classifier design and comparison on limited data sets”

Stefania Repetto - University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
“High-Resolution 3-D imaging by a sparse array: array optimization and image simulation”

Sairjn Saragapani - University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, Rhode Island, USA
“Measurements and Modeling of the Target Strength of Divers”

Yoshie Takase - Kanagawa University, Yokohama-shi, Japan
“Real-time sonar system using acoustic lens and numerical analysis based on 2D/3D parabolic equation method”

Manuel Toscana-Jimenez - University of Seville, Seville, Spain
“If a Nuclear Accident occurs, how will the radioactive spots be transported by the ocean?”

YaoTing Tseng - Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
“Implementation of Genetic Programming toward the Improvement of Acoustic Classification Performance for Different Seafloor Habitats”

Christophe Viala - Semantic TS, France
“Real-time geoacoustic inversion of large band signals”
(Not in competition)
Once again judging of the posters was a challenge, but the judging team was able to agree on a slate of top posters. The poster awards were presented at the Banquet at the Naval Academy on Wednesday evening. The program was led by Prof. Rene' Garello, who introduced his honorary CoChair, RADM Pierre de Roquefeul. Adm Roquefeul then presented the First Place Award to Miss Eva-Marie Nosal. This award was sponsored by Thales Underwater Systems. Prof. Garello then introduced the Chairman of the French Section of IEEE who presented the two Second Place Awards to Stefania Repetto and Manuel Toscana-Jimenez. Four Third place awards were presented. Prof. Garello introduced Mr. Pierre Sabathe, Chair of OCEANS 1998 in Nice, and Mr. Norman D. Mille, IEEE/OES Student Activities Coordinator. They in turn presented awards to Philip Barclay, Jose Garcia, Alan Hunter, and Laurent Marrec. All of the students were asked to stand and were given a round of applause. This was a fitting end to the 16th Student Poster Session.

Norman D. Miller