Perth – OSIGp Sunset Geology Walk

We invite you to attend the OSIGp Sunset Geology Walk

Led by Myra Keep, Professor, School of Earth Sciences, UWA

Schedule:

5.15 – 5.30 pm: Meet at Millers Pool Car Park next to Narrows bridge (off Mill Point Rd, South Perth)

5.30 – 6.30 pm: Geology walking tour (finishing at meeting place)

6.30 – 6.45 pm: Walk or take own transport to the Windsor Hotel, 112 Mill Point Rd, South Perth

6.45 – 8.00 pm: Networking at the Garden Bar, Windsor Hotel (pay your own way)

 

Please register here.

View the full flyer and details here.

Perth – OSIGp GeoForum

We invite you to attend the next OSIGp GeoForum on Wednesday 10 November at 5 PM – WA State Library.

Perth GeoForum is a technical evening event featuring a selection of 15-minute long presentations, Geomatics showcasing contributions of Perth-based (geo)scientists, academics and engineers on any offshore topics related to the advancement of knowledge and the practice of the 4Gs: Geomatics, Geology, Geophysics & Geotechnical Engineering.

This event will feature the following presentations:

Steve Duffield

Guardian Geomatics

Myra Keep

University of Western Australia

And with live, on-line presentations from:

Danilo Gianni Zeppilli

Umass Dartmouth

Shiaohuey Chow

University of Melbourne

Please see event flyer with presentation details here.

 

Houston – Online Engineering Competition

The Society for Underwater Technology in the U.S. (SUT-US) is hosting a global virtual online engineering competition for students (undergraduate and graduate) and early-career professionals (0-3 years of experience).

Participants can choose one or more problems to solve within the following topics:

  • Underwater Thermal Garments
  • Remote Subsea Power System
  • Submarine Underwater Rescue in Shallow Water
  • Carbon Capture
  • Renewable Energy

Applications will be reviewed and confirmed on or before February 22nd, 2021. All successful registrants will receive the problem statement on February 22nd, 2021, the organizing committee will send the participants the problem statement(s), including questions to be addressed.

Registration

Participants can register as individuals or as a team, of up to 4 members by using the form here or by following this link: https://forms.gle/puyfcFPVviV85RY97.

There is no limit on number of entries per person or team. For both, individual and team registration, the cost per participant per category is $100.00 for early-career professionals and $50.00 for students.

The deliverables include a MS PowerPoint presentation of up to 20 slides to be submitted by March 19th, 2021 by 5 PM CST. No report is required.

The judges will review each entry against the following criteria:

  • Originality, Creativity & Intent
  • Technical Aspects
  • Implementation Feasibility
  • Potential Impact and Growth

Finalist will be notified via email and assigned a 15 minutes time slot to give a final presentation to the judges between April 5th, 2021- April 8th, 2021. Winners will be notified via email with an invitation to the virtual award ceremony, which will take place on April 9th, 2021.

Prizes

  • Cash prizes.
  • First place winners per category get free registrations to a SUT course/workshop with a cash value of up to $2400.00.
  • All winners get a 1-year SUT membership.

If a team entry has won the topic, the cash award will be distributed evenly to each team member.

For more information and to register please click here.

Important Deadlines

  • January 11, 2021 – Applications begin
  • February 8, 2021 – Registration ends
  • February 22, 2021 – Competition begins
  • March 19, 2021 – Competition submissions due
  • March 29, 2021 – Judging begins
  • April 5-8, 2021- Finalists presentations
  • April 9, 2021 – Awards

Houston – Informational Webinar: Mentoring and online Engineering Competition

28 January, 1700hrs CST (Houston, TX, US)

Online Engineering Competition Informational webinar to learn about the specifics and guidelines of the competition. This webinar will also provide an overview of the SUT-US Mentoring Program and how you can register as a mentee or mentor.

Undergraduate and graduate students and young professionals are encouraged to attend this webinar.

The agenda for the webinar is as follows:

  • Welcome by Tricia Hill, SUT-US Chair
  • Student chapters by John Allen, Chair of SUT-US Education Committee
  • Young Professionals by Patricia Varela, Chair of SUT-US Young Professionals Group
  • Online Competition Information by Tricia Hill, SUT-US Chair
  • Mentoring Program Information by Roneet Das, Vice-Chair of SUT-US Young Professionals Group
  • Online Competition Information by Tricia Hill, SUT-US Chair

Click here to learn more about the SUT-US Online Engineering Competition.

Click here for more information and to register.

 

The Underwater Technology Podcast Episode 48 – Role of the Met Office in supporting the Offshore Industry – Ed Steele

In this interview, SUT Council Member Andrew Connelly speaks to Dr. Ed Steele from the UK Met Office in Exeter about the range of ocean and weather data products that the Met Office can to provide to offshore industry users including ship operators, offshore hydrocarbons platforms, helicopter ops, and marine renewables.

The episode will be uploaded to https://sut.buzzsprout.com/

To find out how you can be featured on a future podcast or for information on how to sponsor an upcoming podcast contact [email protected]

The Underwater Technology Podcast Episode 47 – HR Wallingford – Physical modelling of monopiles & seabed structures – Richard Whitehouse

Our second interview from HR Wallingford, Richard is a long-serving SUT member and is active in our Environmental Forces Special Interest Group. His specialist area is understanding sediment dynamics around seabed structures such as wind farm monopiles. In this interview he talks to our former CEO Steve Hall about how HR Wallingford constructs physical scale models of these sort of structures, to test using specialist flume tanks.

The episode will be uploaded to www.buzzsprout.com/1000288

To find out how you can be featured on a future podcast or for information on how to sponsor an upcoming podcast contact [email protected]

Click here to listen to part 1 of the HR Wallingford Interviews with David Todd, Laboratory Manager. 

 

The Underwater Technology Podcast Episode 50 – SubSea Craft – Anna Lambert

In this episode, SUT council member Andrew Connelly speaks with Anna Lambert – Head of Programme Delivery at SubSea Craft based in Portsmouth UK. Anna talks about the background of SubSea Craft and their current ‘VICTA’ development of a surface and submersible diver delivery craft, what has been involved in the development cycle of such a project, and how students and younger people can be motivated to get involved in engineering.

The episode will be uploaded to https://sut.buzzsprout.com/

To find out how you can be featured on a future podcast or for information on how to sponsor an upcoming podcast contact [email protected]

The Underwater Technology Podcast Episode 46 – Unexploded Ordinance Risk Mitigation – Marco Gilissen, Fugro

In this episode, SUT council member Andrew Connelly speaks with Marco Gilissen – Global UXO Marine Risk Mitigation Director and Offshore Wind Site Appraisal and Design Array Solution Owner at Fugro. Marco talks about UXO risk mitigation and the processes involved to deal with UXO issues that are experienced by different markets around the globe.

The episode will be uploaded to https://sut.buzzsprout.com/

To find out how you can be featured on a future podcast or for information on how to sponsor an upcoming podcast contact [email protected]