Room: 5-314 Speaker Name: David Kelly Affiliation: CEO of Innovasea Abstract: With an increasing global population, the utilization of the oceans to economically support societies is growing. While the traditional uses of the oceans for transportation, defense, energy, and food continue, the engineering challenges are evolving and the range of disciplines involved is increasing. This lecture…
Event Category: Ocean Engineering Seminar
Maritime 5.0: The role of Technology and Innovation as the New Global Shipping Shapers
Room: 5-314 Speaker Name: Christopher J. Wiernicki Affiliation: Christopher J. Wiernicki is Chairman and CEO of the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) and Chairman of ABS’ Affiliated Companies. Abstract: The maritime industry is a vast, interconnected web held together by complex relationships which are increasingly shaped by evolving regulations, emerging value chains and new technologies….
Advancing Marine Spatial Planning through Passive Acoustic Monitoring
Room: 3-370 Speaker Name: Prof. Tomonari Akamatsu Affiliation: Professor, Research Organization for Nano & Life Innovation, Waseda University Abstract: Underwater sound recordings have been collected globally in recent years using both stationary and mobile acoustic receiving systems, which are now commercially available and widely deployed in coastal and offshore waters. However, identifying sound sources remains…
T. F. Ogilvie Lecture: Accelerating at-scale energy transition: examples from biofuels exploitation and life extension of wind farms
Room: 5-314 Speaker Name: Dr Amr Elbanhawy | LinkedIn Affiliation: Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering | PI, Energy Technology and Climate Change Laboratory | Ain Shams University | Cairo | Egypt Fulbright Visiting Scholar | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Abstract: The accelerated energy transition will necessitate the deployment of a multitude of resources…
Student Seminar: The impact of internal variability on benchmarking deep learning climate emulators
Room: 5-314 Speaker Name: Björn Lütjens Affiliation: Website Link Abstract: Full-complexity Earth system models (ESMs) are computationally very expensive, limiting their use in exploring the climate outcomes of multiple emission pathways. More efficient emulators that approximate ESMs can directly map emissions onto climate outcomes, and benchmarks are being used to evaluate their accuracy on standardized…
Student Seminar: Mesopelagic fauna in “Inertial Drainpipe”
Room: 5-314 Speaker Name: Zhaozhong Zhuang Affiliation: MIT-WHOI Joint PhD Program Abstract: Not yet available…
Student Seminar: Decoding the Symphony of the Reef: Monitoring Coral Reef Ecosystem Through Sound
Room: 5-314 Speaker Name: Rupa Kurinchi-Vendhan Affiliation: Website Link Abstract: Not yet available…
Student Seminar: Learning to Swim: Reinforcement Learning for 6-DOF Control of Thruster-driven Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Room: 5-314 Speaker Name: Levi “Veevee” Cai Affiliation: Website Link Abstract: Not yet available…
Student Seminar: Assessing the Viability of the Global Low-carbon Fuel Supply Chain for Maritime Applications
Room: 3-350 Speaker Name: Danika MacDonell Affiliation: Website Link Abstract: Not yet available…
Student Seminar: Quantifying the Impacts of Artificial Reef Structures on Breaking Waves Using Cross-Shore Imagery and Machine Learning.
Room: 5-314 Speaker Name: Ian Robertson Affiliation: LinkedIn Link Abstract: Understanding the breaking characteristics of waves is important in several nearshore applications such as assessing impacts of engineered structures on wave breaking or computing surf zone energy budgets. Past studies have used images collected by remote sensing to estimate characteristics such as breaking wave height,…