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1 | Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering | |||||||||
2 | ORE 792 Seminar Instructor: Camille Pagniello, PhD | |||||||||
3 | Spring 2026: POST 723, Fridays 1-2 pm | |||||||||
4 | Week | DATE | Time | Speaker | Position | Title | Topic | Sponsor | ||
5 | 1 | 1/16/2026 | 13:00 HST | Zhenhua Huang | Professor, Department of Ocean & Resources Engineering | ORE Townhall | ORE Department | |||
6 | 2 | 1/23/2026 | 13:00 HST | Ozgur Demir, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ocean & Resources Engineering | Finite Element Analysis in Ocean Engineering Applications | ||||
7 | 3 | 1/30/2026 | 13:00 HST | Bryce Davis, PhD | Business Development Manager – Defense, Silixa LLC / Defense | Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Subsea Applications | Distributed Acoustic Sensing | |||
8 | 4 | 2/6/2026 | 13:00 HST | Michael Foley, PhD | Coastal Engineering Lead - Pacific, EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Inc. | Natural and Hybrid Infrastructure for Coastal Protection | Systems -based approach to coastal design | sponsored by MTS Student Section | ||
9 | 5 | 2/13/2026 | 13:00 HST | Kaja Reinhardt | MS Student, Department of Ocean & Resources Engineering | Volunteer at Sea: Studying Methanogens aboard R/V Kilo Moana | ||||
10 | 6 | 2/20/2026 | 13:00 HST | Edward Samson | PhD Student, Department of Ocean & Resources Engineering | Study of Traditional Seawalls | ||||
11 | 7 | 2/27/2026 | 10:00 HST | Filippo Varini (remote only) | Head of AI, WildHackers | Deploying Human-Centered AI for Ocean Conservation: From Deep-Sea Corals to Pelagic Species | AI | |||
12 | 8 | 3/6/2026 | 13:00 HST | Patrick Sullivan, PhD | Founder and CEO, Oceanit | TBA | OceanIt | sponsored by MTS Student Section | ||
13 | 9 | 3/13/2026 | 13:00 HST | William Redford | MS Student, Department of Ocean & Resources Engineering | Distributed Acoustic Sensing for Bird Identification, and Designing a Fiber Optic Isolation Chamber for Interrogator Unit Comparison | Distributed Acoustic Sensing | |||
14 | 10 | 3/20/2026 | 13:00 HST | No Seminar -- Spring Break | ||||||
15 | 11 | 3/27/2026 | 13:00 HST | Alejandra Sanchez-Rios, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Oceanography | Measuring turbulence and parameterizing mixing in the upper layer of the Ocean | Turbulence & Mixing | sponsored by MTS Student Section | ||
16 | 12 | 4/3/2026 | 13:00 HST | No Seminar -- Good Friday | ||||||
17 | 13 | 4/10/2026 | 13:00 HST | Greg Rocheleau + others | CEO, Makai Engineering | TBA | Makai Engineering | sponsored by MTS Student Section | ||
18 | 14 | 4/17/2026 | 13:00 HST | ORE Students (4) | Science Communication Presentations | Selected by Students | ||||
19 | 15 | 4/24/2026 | 13:00 HST | ORE Students (4) | Science Communication Presentations | Selected by Students | ||||
20 | 16 | 5/1/2026 | 13:00 HST | ORE Students | ORE 653 Final Presentation | eDNA sampler design | ||||
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