Overview: Higuel Norões will present about Unmanned Surface Vehicles, discussing their main applications in the marine industry. A focus on oil spill detection capabilities will be given by using a recent case study.

Higuel Norões is a naval architect with 5-year experience in marine robotics. He is passionate about innovative technologies and emerging design methods.

• Agenda:
  • What are Unmanned Surface Vehicles?
  • What challenges does USV help solving?
  • Oil spill detection by an autonomous system, a case study
  • Trends on market and regulations of USV systems
  • TideWise design process
  • Q&A Session

 

We invite you to attend the OSIGp Prize Evening.

This event, held at the University of Western Australia is a competition event where students, young academics, and early-careers professionals in the areas of offshore Geophysics, Geotechnical, Geology, and Geomatics (4Gs) aged 30 years old or younger give a 7-min presentation about their research work, industry projects or cases studies they have been involved or work with. At the end of the night, the OSIGp Committee will determine the best presentation who will then be awarded the “OSIGp Prize”.

To view the event flyer and Finalists – Click HERE 

For information on sponsorship opportunities click HERE

To register your attendance at this event click HERE

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.

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.

 

Oceanology – Connecting the Oceantech Community.

For more information contact [email protected].

Presented by MAATS/Nexans.

Design and installation of Nexans 10,000 ton carousel making Aurora, the world’s largest cable lay vessel destined for work in the Middle East.

For further information and to book please contact [email protected]

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