Changing Hands – A New Editor of the COPRI Journal

Zeki Demirbilek

Editor, Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering

On 1 October 2005, Professor Vijay Panchang, Texas A&M University at Galveston, will become the Editor of the Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering, the flagship journal of COPRI.  Vijay is a talented individual and strong proponent of excellence in science and engineering practice...

Einstein Award Presented to Pokrefke

COPRI and the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) are pleased to award the 2005 Hans Albert Einstein Award to Thomas James Pokrefke, Jr., P.E.  Established in 1988 the award, shared by the two Institutes, is presented annually to honor significant contributions to the engineering profession...

 

Svendsen Honored and Remembered with ICE Award

Each year since 1977 the American Society of Civil Engineers has honored a member for their outstanding leadership and development in the field of coastal engineering.  This year Professor Ib Arne Svendsen, Ph.D. was honored posthumously with the 2005 International Coastal Engineering Award.  A ceremony to commemorate Svendsen was held at the Waves 2005 Conference...

Magoon Award for Service Given To Lopez

The Orville T. Magoon Award for Service was awarded to Dr. John A. Lopez of the US Army Corps of Engineers at the Coastal Zone '05 conference in New Orleans, La.  Dr. Lopez holds a doctorate in Engineering and Applied Sciences from the University of New Orleans...

Nominate a ColleagueToday for a COPRI/ASCE Award!

The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) is now accepting nominations for COPRI’s  three awards for professional achievement...

Member Spotlight

*COPRI is pleased to add this new feature to Waterways.  To appear in or nominate a COPRI member for the Member Spotlight please visit www.coprinstitute.org.

BRUCE L. McCARTNEY, P.E.

 Publications such as the new ASCE Manual No. 107: Ship Channel Design and Operation (see article below), do not “just happen”, but happen most often because certain dedicated members champion a cause and spend the time and energy to make it happen. In this case the champion was Bruce McCartney, the Lance Armstrong of navigation and waterways champions...

Committee Corner

Here are just a few of the many exciting things going on with COPRI’s active committees and subcommittees.  For more information on the COPRI committees and subcommittees please visit the COPRI website at www.coprinstitute.org or contact the COPRI staff at (703) 295-6370 or copri@asce.org.

• Military Programs Technical Committee
• The Beneficial Use of Dredge Material (BUDM) Subcommittee
• Membership Committee
• The Navigation Engineering Task Committee

ASCE Member Memoirs

Memoirs of deceased members are published in ASCE's annual publication Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers.  Friends or colleagues can acknowledge a recently deceased member by submitting memoirs to us.  The deadline for submission for the 2005 Transaction is December 20, 2005.  For more information and instructions visit: http://www.pubs.asce.org/authors/memoirs.html .

Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Symposium

 

On October 25, 2005 preceding the ASCE National Conference, members of the post-tsunami field investigation teams from ASCE and Institution of Civil Engineers will discuss damage to lifeline facilities, coastal areas and port facilities based on their surveys in Thailand, Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia.  An expert panel discussion will also be held.  Visit www.coprinstitute.org/events/tsunamiquake.cfm for a complete agenda or visit http://216.15.146.200/MS/MS38/page.php?p=613 for more information and registration.

ICCE 2006 UPDATE

The International Conference on Coastal Engineering will be held September 3 - 8, 2006 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt on the waterfront of San Diego Bay in San Diego, California.  The conference will include 486 technical papers and 70 poster papers.  Eight-hundred forty seven abstracts were submitted, and they are being reviewed and scored for acceptance by Coastal Engineering Research Council members and an external Scientific Committee...

         

Coastal Sediments 2007

“Coastal Engineering and Science in Cascading Spatial and Temporal Scales”

May 14-18, 2007

New Orleans, LA

 

Coastal Sediments 2007 is the sixth International Symposium on Coastal Engineering and the Science of Coastal Sediment Processes. This technical specialty conference provides an international forum for the exchange of information among coastal engineers, geologists, marine scientists, shallow-water oceanographers and others interested in the physical processes of coastal sediment transport and morphology change.  Please visit the Coastal Sediments 2007 website (www.asce.org/conferences/cs07) for more information. Those interested in organizing sessions on specific topics can contact any CS07 committee member listed on the conference web site. 

*The Coastal Sediments Conference is still scheduled to take place in New Orleans, however due to the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina we will reevaluate this decision no later than April 2006 (13 months prior to the conference).

                 

Ports™2007

“30 Years of Sharing Ideas . . . 1977-2007”

March 25-28, 2007

La Costa Resort and Spa

San Diego, CA

 

Ports™ 2007, the 11th in a series of international port and harbor development specialty conferences held every three years, marks 30 years since the first Ports conference in 1977.  The conference is organized by the Ports and Harbor committee of COPRI/ASCE and the U.S. Section of the Permanent International Navigation Association Congress (PIANC).  Ports 2007 will be co-hosted by the San Diego Unified Port District and the Naval Facilities Engineering Command.  Please visit the COPRI website (www.coprinstitute.org) for updates as they become available.

 

  

“New and Improved” Ship Channel Manual

By Bruce McCartney, Waterways Committee

 

ASCE Manuals and Reports on Engineering Practice No. 107: Ship Channel Design and Operation (2005) represents a major achievement of the COPRI Waterways Committee.  Hot off the presses, this new publication is revised and expanded from Manual of Practice 80: Report on Ship Channel Design. This new and improved volume provides an overview of the design process and operation of deep-draft navigation projects...

 

COPRI Voice at Florida TAC Meeting

 

The Florida Section of the ASCE Technical Activities Council held it’s first meeting in August.  The council, which integrates the various ASCE Institutes, such as COPRI, and the state ASCE section, aims to promote technical activities, coordinate with branch technical groups as well as serve as a liaison to the Institutes...

Winners of International Design Competition Announced

Winners for the 2005 International Student Offshore Design Competition (ISODC) have been announced.  Beating out the four other finalist teams, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro won the international competition with their entry entitled “Subsea Production System for Gas Field Offshore Brazil”...

How Voluntary Contributions Benefit You, the Member

 

Making a voluntary contribution to the Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute (COPRI) enables us to continue to expand and re-energize our programs.  At COPRI, we are dedicated to being good stewards of your donations and we stretch every penny to make sure that your generous contribution is being put to good use.  Your voluntary contribution will be used to fund new initiatives that are meaningful to the COPRI community...

COPRI Merchandise Now Available!

 

Now you can show your support of your favorite Institute by proudly wearing the COPRI logo!  The Institute is pleased to announce that we now have merchandise for sale, including mugs, note cards, and embroidered polo shirts, all bearing the COPRI logo.  Visit our merchandise page for ordering information.