2008 ISOPE Best Paper Awards Presented to

 Outstanding Researchers at MOERI, Korea

and MARIN, The Netherlands

Vancouver, Canada, July 9, 2008 ¾ The International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) announced co-recipients of its Best Paper Award at the ISOPE-2008 Vancouver Banquet:

Time Domain Analysis on Hydroelastic Response of VLFS Considering Horizontal Motion

Dr. Jo Hyun Kyoung, Dr. Sa Young Hong and Dr. Byoung Wan Kim, Maritime and Ocean Engineering Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea

Large scale LNG Sloshing Model Tests

Dr. Tim Bunnik MARIN, Wageningen, and Rene Huijsmans, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Both papers were presented at the Seventeenth (2007) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, July 1-6, 2007.

Prof. Richard Miksad, Award Committee Chairman, presented the Award plaques and Osaka Prize to Dr. Kim and Dr. Bunnik.  Prof. Miksad explained that the Committee, after evaluating 25 nominations, had short-listed 3 papers, all on hydrodynamics. As the paper selected as Best Paper must receive at least 3 evaluations, the Committee then asked a panel of 9 experts in each field for an expert evaluation. Screening through the qualification requirements ¾ originality and significance of the results ¾ and based on the 6 expert evaluations, the Committee recommended that not one, but two Best Papers be awarded from the Seventeenth (2007) International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference.

Nomination and Evaluation Procedure. Session chairmen, session organizers and editors of the International Journal of Offshore and Polar Engineering made their nominations from among the papers presented in the previous year. Only those papers are initially selected that either have already been accepted for Journal publication or are slated for further Journal review. Then a pool of potential judges, who are very knowledgeable in one or more fields of the nominees' topics, or have chaired or co-chaired the particular sessions, ranked the papers in their field(s) on the basis of the originality and significance of the results. (The nominees are naturally excluded from the list of judges.)  The nominated papers represent expertise areas as well as geographic balance.

From ISOPE Staff