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Attendees stop by the SeaBotix Inc. booth in the exhibition hall. (Photo Credit: Don Monteaux Photography) included a demonstration of real-time collaboration technology from StormCenter Communications Inc. (Baltimore, Maryland). Conference Awards At the MTS Awards Luncheon, Compass Publications Inc., which publishes Sea Technology magazine, presented three awards. The Compass Distinguished Achievement Award, which includes a Rolex Submariner timepiece, went to Robert Winokur, deputy oceanographer of the Navy and deputy for the Oceanography, Space and Maritime Domain Awareness division in the Offce of the Chief of Naval Operations. The award recognizes Winokur's four decades of service to the private and public sectors as a researcher and technical program manager. Winokur formlerly led national and international policies, including the team that formulated the policy initiatives that reinvigorated naval oceanography. The Compass International Award, presented to a company headquartered outside of the U.S., went to EDT Offshore Ltd. (Limassol, Cyprus) for the company's research, exploration, discovery, and offshore development and production activities. Sonardyne International (Yateley, England) received the Compass Industrial Award for its development and commercial implementation of the Sonardyne wide-signal process capability to accommodate extreme conditions in a deepwater oil and gas blowout, as well as the company's tsunami detection system and Sentinel IDS for detecting divers in high-risk areas. The Lockheed Martin Award for Ocean Science and Engineering was awarded to Franz Hover for his leadership in the creation, control system development and feld testing of several AUV designs, including the hovering autonomous vehicle for precision under-hull inspection. The Ocean News & Technology Young Professional Award went to Jeremy Childress, who works at Sexton Co. (Salem, Oregon). Childress founded the MTS Oregon Section and is very active in organizing and planning events for the regional marine technologists. MTS member Charles Royce was named an MTS fellow, the highest accolade a member can achieve within the society, for his work with ROVs. He worked on early ROV systems and groundbreaking ROV jobs such as the Exxon Hondo platform in 1976 and the Ixtoc blowout in 1979. Coming in 2013 The OCEANS '13 MTS/IEEE conference will be held in San Diego, California, from September 23 to 27. The theme will be "An Ocean in Common." n www.sea-technology.com DECEMBER 2012 / st 43