The OCEANS Student Poster Competition offers an opportunity for students to travel to OCEANS 2024 Halifax to present their research, network with professionals, and meet like-minded students from all over the world. After more than 100 abstracts were submitted for consideration for the competition, 21 outstanding posters have made it to the final round!

We invite you to visit the student posters in Room 108 and speak with the competitors on Tuesday and Wednesday during each coffee and lunch break. Then join us Thursday during the morning coffee break in the Innovation Lounge to celebrate the winners and all of the students' achievements.

This years' posters delve into a diverse array of topics and represent research going on around the world. The presenters and their remarkable works are as follows:

Students:

Devi Ayyagari: Detecting Unexpected Marine Species with Underwater Cameras and Deep Learning

Jesse Chen: Quantification of the Effects of Preprocessing Filters on the Performance of GNSS-R Based Sea Ice Detection

Jiawei Chen: Adaptive Receiver Design for Long-Range Underwater Acoustic Communications

Lily de Loe: Fusing ice surface temperature with the AI4Arctic dataset for enhanced sea ice concentration estimation: A preliminary assessment

Davide Eccher: Physical Layer Authentication via Underwater Acoustic Multipath Channel Crafting

Riley Forth: Developing Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Methodologies for Recovering Derelict Crab Pots

Jonathan Glasspool: Numerical Modelling of ROV-Operated Disconnectable Mooring Systems in Wave Dominated Environments

Tony Jacob: Active Sonar-Driven Iceberg Wall Following Path Planner for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Raymond Lam: A preliminary comparison of 2D and 3D open models for tidal stream energy applications

Bangzhang Ma: A new coral classification method using speed sea scanner-portable and deep learning-based point cloud semantic segmentation

Jason Noel: Advances in Fiber Optic Microtethered Systems for Deep-Sea Sensing and Exploration

Nicholas Occhiogrosso: Glider-observed seasonal and spatial distributions of zooplankton in the Mid-Atlantic Bight

Jonathan Parsons: Onboard Near-Real-Time Detection of Harmful Algal Blooms Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Multispectral Imagery from Satellite in Low Earth Orbit

Logan Paugh: Wave-Focusing Induced by a Submerged Crecent-Shaped Plate in Combination with Headland Breakwaters

Amy Phung: Sonar-Aided Manipulation in Low-Visibility Conditions by Novice Users

Simone Tani: Preliminary online validation of a visual-acoustic-based framework for autonomous underwater structure inspections

Alexandru Umlauft: Towards transformer-based semantic segmentation of seagrass in the Baltic Sea with high-resolution satellite images

Akash Vijayakumar: Learning Autonomous Docking Operation of Fully Actuated Autonomous Surface Vessel from Expert data

Runfa Xing: A Visual Perception Algorithm for AUV Dynamic Docking Based on Variable Markers

Fan Zhao: Consumer-Grade Aerial-Aquatic Speedy Scanner (AASS) for Efficient Underwater Monitoring with Deep Learning

Xiaoteng Zhou: Acoustic Camera-Based Automatic Abundance Estimation Algorithm for Marine Plastic Debris