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Record Attendance Expected At Oceans '81, the annual confer- ence and exhibition sponsored by the IEEE Council of Oceanic En- gineering and the Marine Tech- nology Society, will be held Sep- tember 16-18 at the Sheraton Hotel, Boston, Mass. A record 300 technical presen- tations will be made by eminent persons from academe, research organizations, industry, and gov- ernment agencies. There will be 85 exhibitions — representing a wide range of marine products, equipment, and services. The international theme of the annual event—"The Ocean—An International Workplace"—is re- flected by both the exhibits and by the authors of many of the technical papers. Scientists from countries such as Canada, China, India, Japan, West Germany, and the United Kingdom, as well as from the United States, will make their presentations at a record 60 sessions. According to Stanley G. Cham- berlain, the general chairman of Oceans '81, the conference "will be an unsurpassed forum for the presentation of the technologies, especially the new technologies, of those who work in, on, and under the oceans of the world, and those applying technology to the problems of the ocean." He said the committee expects the largest turnout in conference his- tory. The keynote address will be de- livered by Rear Adm. Leland F. Kolmorgen, chief of research, U.S. Navy, at the plenary session. Mr. Chamberlain, the conference general chairman, will give the address of welcome. At the IEEE/COE president's luncheon on Wednesday, Septem- ber 16, the featured speaker will be Dr. John Byrne, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospher- ic Administration. Dr. Harold Ed- gerton, professor of electrical en- gineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a founder of EG&G, will be the main speaker at the conference banquet to be held on Thursday evening, September 17. The leadoff for the technical program is scheduled to be given on Wednesday morning at the plenary session by Dr. Ira Dyer, professor of ocean engineering at M.I.T. The technical presentation, some of which are to be rendered in poster formats as well as by traditional lectures, will be or- ganized into sessions covering topics such as acoustics, coastal zone management, instrumenta- tion, marine biology and fisher- ies, ocean energy and engineer- ing, research vessels, seafloor engineering, and wave measure- ments. An unusual feature of Oceans '81 will be the holding of a one- day primer on Outer Continental Shelf Petroleum Operations. The session will cover the technology and the constraints of explora- tion, site selection, development, and production of oil and gas re- sources from the sea. The primer is designed to pro- vide an introductory technical background for the engineering and scientific community, as well as policymaking groups. Specific areas covered by the primer in- clude: offshore petroleum re- sources as part of the energy mix for 1990; geologic, geophysi- cal, and geochemical exploration technology; economic and tech- nology dictates in determining high potential and high develop- ment interest prospects; the OCS leasing process; the exploratory drilling phase of offshore opera- tions ; development drilling and production operations; pipeline and marine transportation sys- tems, and marketing of OCS crude and natural gas resources, (continued on page 14) OCEANS '81 EXHIBITORS About 85 major suppliers and manufacturers of marine products, equipment, and services will have attractive displays at Oceans '81, similar to the exhibits from last year (shown above). Aanderaa Instruments, Inc. Albany International-Precision Components Division Amtec Development Company, Inc. SeaTec International, Ltd. AT&T Long Lines Beckman Instruments, Inc. Benthos, Inc. Brantner Associates Bren-Tronics CEC Division/Bell & Howell Charles S. Draper Lab, Inc. Custom Cable Company Conference Book Service David W. Taylor Naval Ship R&D Center Dukane Corporation, Ultrasonics Division Electronic Sales of New England Giannini Instruments Innerspace Technology, Inc. Magnavox Satellite Receivers Photo Sea Systems Emerson and Cuming EMI Technology, Inc. Engineering Service Associates, Inc. Canflex Manufacturing, Inc. Diving Unlimited International Efcom Communications Systems EG&G Sea Link Fathom 36, Inc. JMR Instruments, Inc. Lucker Manufacturing Co. Optelecom, Inc. Rochester Corporation Tellurometer ENDECO Inc. EPC Labs, Inc. Fluid Dynamics Corporation General Instrument Corp. General Oceanics, Inc. Gould Chesapeake Instrument Division Guildline Instruments, Inc. Hermes Electronics Ltd. Hydro Products, Inc./Tetra Tech, Inc. InterOcean Systems, Inc. ITT Cannon Jack McCarthy Associates, Inc. Cortland Cable Co. Datasonics, Inc. E.M. Blues Sons, Inc. Kintec, Inc. Precision Filters, Inc. Jet Propulsion Laboratory Klein Associates, Inc. Krupp Atlas-Elektronic Marsh McBirney, Inc. M.I.T. National Sea Grant Program Motorola Naico Naval Underwater Systems Center Naval Oceanographic Office Neil Brown Instruments Systems, Inc. Oceans Industries Oceanus-Woods Hole Oceano Instruments, U.S.A. Inc. ODEC O.R.E. Inc. P&P Industries, Inc. Raytheon Ocean Systems Co. Raytheon Submarine Signal Division Robert A. Patterson, Inc. Consolidated Products/South Bay Cable D.G. O'Brien, Inc. Heckerman Corp. Preformed Marine Whitehill Manufacturing Corp. Schonstedt Instrument Co. Sea Data Corporation Simplex Wire and Cable Company Simrad A/S Sea Technology Sonatech, Inc. Sub-Sea Systems The Zippertubing Company Tracor Marine, Inc. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Wall Rope Works/Yale Cordage Maritime Reporter/Engineering News 12 Write 142 on Reader Service Card
