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WATERWAYS The Official Newsletter of the Coasts, Oceans, Ports, and Rivers Institute Please click here for a printable view of Waterways. (PDF) FEATURED ARTICLES:
Offshore Papers Honored at Gala Dinner
For over 35 years the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) has brought together engineers, scientists and other professionals from the offshore industry. Since the first conference in 1969, more than 10,000 papers have been presented at OTC. A few of these papers stand out as having provided the industry with innovation, direction and lasting impact on the design, construction or installation of the offshore infrastructure. Many of the OTC papers have straddled the divides to become an integral part of the design process of other categories of structures such as buildings and bridges... Is Navigation Engineering a Civil Engineering Niche or an Almost Invisible Multidisciplinary Specialty? A new COPRI Task Committee on Navigation is looking for your input. William McAnally, P.E. Chair
To further the navigation engineering initiative, in 2005 the COPRI Waterways Committee created a Navigation Engineering Task Committee to define the specialty of navigation engineering; identify its practitioners, projects, literature, and resources; and recommend actions and provide products to improve the practice...
Billy Edge, Ph.D., P.E.
There are many interesting changes going on within COPRI that will benefit us all. First off I would like to welcome the Tidal Hydraulics Committee to COPRI. For many years we have asked ourselves why the Tidal Hydraulics Committee was in EWRI and prior to that in the Hydraulics Division instead of the more coastal side of ASCE. It seemed at the time that the mold was just too hard to break. But with the opportunities for synergism, the temptation was no longer resistible... COMMITTEE AND MEMBER UPDATES
Dalrymple Elected to the National Academy of Engineering COPRI member Robert A. Dalrymple, Ph.D., P.E. was recently honored with election into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election into the NAE is one of the highest professional honors in the engineering field. The distinction recognizes outstanding contributions to the engineering research, practice or education including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature and to the pioneering of new and significant fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering or developing and implementing innovative approaches to engineering education... Tidal Hydraulics Committee Moves to COPRI: New Members and Ideas Welcome By Andrew Kennedy, P.E. Recent events such as Hurricane Katrina have demonstrated the continuing relevance of engineering works in and around tidal waters, the general domain of the Tidal Hydraulics Committee (THC), which is one of the oldest committees within ASCE. During the ASCE reorganization which brought about the seven Institutes, the membership of the THC decided to align itself with the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI), but after some time it became clear that our purpose and interests were much closer to the work being done within COPRI. Because of this, the most recent committee meeting saw a unanimous vote to join COPRI... New COPRI Standards to Shake Up Pier and Wharf Design By Gayle Johnson, P.E. The Standards Committee on Seismic Design of Piers and Wharves has been hard at work since last summer, in an effort to create from scratch COPRI’s first Standards document. The committee hopes to have a document ready for public balloting in 2007. Because of the unique importance of soil behavior in pier and wharf seismic design compared to conventional building design, COPRI made a concentrated effort to include a significant amount of geotechnical engineers among the membership of nearly 40 professionals, as well as strong representation from East Coast engineers. For more information, contact committee chairman Gayle Johnson at gjohnson@hpa.com or Eileen Boeing of COPRI at eboeing@asce.org.
Member Spotlight: Subrata K. Chakrabarti, NAE, Ph.D, P.E., F. ASCE COPRI member Subrata K. Chakrabarti, NAE, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE has been awarded the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Offshore, Ocean and Arctic Engineering (OOAE) Division of ASME International. The award is bestowed in recognition of his distinguished and significant lifetime contributions to the hydrodynamics and fluid-structure interactions in offshore and coastal structure design... Wetlands and Sediment Management Committee Keeps Busy with Many New Projects By Julie Dean Rosati, P.E. The Wetlands and Sediment Management Committee, chaired by Dominic Izzo, Vice President of the Marine Engineering Business Line, U.S. Gulf Coast, for DMJM Harris, Inc, currently has 31 members, with representation from engineering, environmental and ocean sciences, private industry, government, and academia. The committee has established six subcommittees: Beneficial Use of Dredged Material; Regional Sediment Management; Sediment Measurement; Information Resources, Needs, and Dissemination; Conference Planning; and Wetlands Engineering Guidelines...Technical Region Director’s Report By Stan Caldwell, P.E.
All members of the ASCE Board of Direction are expected to communicate effectively with the constituents in their respective regions. The Technical Region is a worldwide, virtual region comprised of ASCE’s seven Institutes. This report is the second in a series of brief summaries intended to keep you informed of the news from the ASCE Board of Direction. Communication is a two-way process...
Leglislative News
Coastal Professionals Hit Capitol Hill On March 1-3, 2006, the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) held its annual Coastal Summit in Washington DC, bringing together individuals and groups concerned with the conditions of our country’s coastlines including engineers, scientists, public officials and members of Congress. The theme of the 2006 Summit was “Investing in America’s Coast”. The Summit covered a wide-range of topics affecting the nation’s coasts such as beach replenishment funding, coastal hazards, coastal economics, grassroots activism, ocean policy and disaster mitigation...
ASCE Recommends Ways to Improve New Orleans Flood Protection, Levee System A report issued in February by ASCE's External Review Panel (ERP)—a group organized to provide independent peer review of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' effort to rebuild the New Orleans levees—identified areas requiring urgent attention by the federal government and the state of Louisiana... U.S. Gets a D+ on Ocean Policy Reform Opportunities still abound for fundamental changes to protect and restore our nation’s oceans and coasts, according to the bipartisan Joint Ocean Commission Initiative with the release of its U.S. Ocean Policy Report Card on February 3, which gives the nation a D+ on ocean policy reform...
CONFERENCES Ron Noble, Chairman, ICCE 2006 Local Organizing Committee The International Conference on Coastal Engineering will be held September 3 to 8, 2006 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt on the waterfront of San Diego Bay in San Diego, California. A listing of the accepted technical papers for oral and poster paper presentation is posted on the conference website www.icce2006.com. Final abstracts in depth are due by April 1, 2006 with conference registration for all accepted abstracts. The abstracts will be organized into a Book of Abstracts and a Book of Poster Papers for distribution at the Conference... CALL FOR PAPERS Coastal Structures 2007 July 2-4, 2007 Venice, Italy Deadline to Submit Papers is September 30, 2006 COPRI would like to invite you to submit abstracts to our Coastal Structures Conference. This conference, the only comprehensive conference on coastal structures, highlights the significant advancements in coastal structure innovation, design and construction. Abstracts should be submitted via email to cst07secretariat@corila.it. Coastal Structures 2007 is held in conjunction with the IAHR 2007 conference, also in Venice.
CALL FOR PAPERS Coastal Sediments 2007 “Coastal Engineering and Science in Cascading Spatial and Temporal Scales” May 13-17, 2007 New Orleans, Louisiana Deadline to Submit Papers is May 16, 2006 http://www.asce.org/conferences/cs07/index.cfm The Coastal Sediments technical specialty conferences provide an international forum for 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. Prospective authors are cordially invited to submit abstracts of papers dealing with the conference theme and related subjects. COPRI looks forward to hosting this conference in New Orleans. Thematic sessions pertaining to the recent events in the city are currently being developed.
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS ASBPA 2006 Fall Conference October 9-11, 2006 Long Branch, New Jersey Deadline to Submit Papers is May 15, 2006 As a co-sponsor of the conference, COPRI members are encouraged to submit presentations to this annual conference promoting the protection of beaches and shores. Presentations can be on any topic related to the ASBPA mission including: shoreline restoration design, marsh restoration design, coastal shoreline management issues, coastal water quality, coastal ocean and weather observation systems, effects of extreme storms and flood protection to name a few. One page summaries should be submitted to Abstracts@asbpa.org
REGISTRATION OPEN Offshore Technology Conference 2006 (OTC) May 1-4, 2006 Houston, Texas http://www.otcnet.org/2006/index.html Registration is now open for OTC '06 the world's foremost event for the development of offshore resources in the fields of drilling, exploration, production and environmental protection. REGISTRATION OPEN Alternative Maritime Power Symposium April 24-25 San Pedro, California COPRI is pleased to co-sponsor this event. Participants will learn about the latest Alternative Maritime Power (AMP) technology, aimed at reducing the impact of ships on our air quality. To register please click here.
SPONSORSHIP AND EXHBITING OPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE Ports™ 2007 “30 years of Sharing Ideas… 1977-2007” March 25-28, 2007 San Diego, Califronia http://www.portsconference.org Ports™2007 celebrates 30 years of international port and harbor development specialty conferences. This conference is the premiere venue for professionals, issues and ideas related to the ports and harbors, inland waterways and navigational improvements. For more information on sponsoring or exhibiting at Ports™2007, please visit www.portsconference.org. OF INTEREST The Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Engineering is continually evolving. In October 2005 Vijay Panchang took over as the editor, committing to maintain the preeminent status and integrity of the publication. Currently, Panchang and the rest of the assistant editors are working with ASCE staff to establish a system for electronic submission and manuscript processing... Submit your paper to the 2007 De Paepe-Willems Award Contest! Each year PIANC presents the DePaepe-Willems Award for the most outstanding technical paper prepared on an aspect of waterborne transport. Categories include policy, management, design, economics, integration with other transportation modes, technology, safety, public involvement and the environment...
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FEATURED ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS Tetra Tech, Inc. Signs up as First Sustaining Organizational Member COPRI would like to welcome Tetra Tech, Inc. as our first Sustaining Organizational Member, the highest level of COPRI organizational membership. Tetra Tech, Inc. has been a Supporting Organizational Member since 2004. We would like to offer a special thanks to all of our organizational members for their continued support! For information on how to sign up your company please visit www.coprinstitute.org...
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