Ocean and Polar Updates 2008

• 2008 ISOPE Best Student Paper Award Presented to an Outstanding Student at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan (July 9, 2008)

• 2008 ISOPE Best Paper Award Presented to Outstanding Researchers at MOERI, Korea and MARIN, The Netherlands (July 9, 2008)

• Five Outstanding Graduate Students Received Offshore Mechanics Scholarships (July 9, 2008)

• Invitation to ISOPE-2008 Student Forum; Tuesday Noon, Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel (June 30, 2008)

• ISOPE Elected in May; New President and New Board Members Elected (June 30, 2008)

• 2008 Session Organizers of the Year Award Go to Emmanuel Fontaine, Australia and Mason Wu, USA (June 30, 2008)

• Synergies between Very Large Floating Structure and Sea-Ice to be presented at ISOPE-2008 July Conference in Vancouver (February 23, 2008)

• Offshore Mechanics Scholarships for Outstanding Graduate Students; Application Deadline: April 7, 2008 (February 19, 2008)