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Dear Students who is engaging in the research related to Ocean

We are very happy to inform you that OCEANS’18 MTS/IEEE Kobe / Techno-Ocean

2018 will organize the Student Poster Competition.

Beginning in 1989, Colonel Norman Miller created and implemented the first Student Poster Competition (SPC) during the OCEANS conference in Seattle, Washington. The competition continued ever since on an annual basis during the OCEANS conference, and then on a bi-annual basis as the OCEANS conference grew to an annual North American conference and an annual Europe/Asia conference.

Students from colleges and universities from around the world are eligible to compete. As the abstract window for a conference opens, students can chose to submit an abstract to the SPC. All abstracts are reviewed by a panel of volunteers to determine if the abstract is of high enough quality to be admitted to the pool of accepted abstracts for the conference. Those abstracts connected to the SPC are reviewed a second time by a specific set of reviewers dedicated to the SPC. Of those hundred or so abstracts received each cycle, a select few are invited to participate in the SPC.

Those abstracts not selected for the SPC are invited to submit a paper to one of the Technical Session in the conference tracks.

Acceptance to the SPC is an honor for the students. Their work is highlighted during the conference, they compete for prizes, and a very important perk for the SPC participants, and their travel, lodging and conference registration are partially covered by the conference. Makes you wish you were a student again. In addition the technical paper submitted by the first place winner is published in The Beacon, the IEEE OES newsletter.

Please see the following web site for detail.

http://www.oceans18mtsieeekobe.org/student-poster-competition-home/

We are looking forward to seeing you in Kobe.

Sincerely yours,

Tokihiro Katsui

Kana Kuroda

Student Poster Competition Committee Co-Chairs.