The Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology has awarded the Denny Medal for 2007 to Dr. Bruno, Dr. Blumberg and Dr. Herrington for their paper entitled 'The urban ocean observatory – coastal ocean observations and forecasting in the New York Bight' published in the Journal of Marine Science and Environment Part C4. The paper details the scientific basis for the network of operational coastal ocean and estuary sensors deployed and maintained by these award winning authors that provide real-time observations of weather and ocean conditions throughout the region. With the additional of their new forecasting component with 48-hour forecasts of weather and ocean conditions, the system has become an important tool for the navigation, fishing, emergency management, and first responder communities. The Institute’s Denny Medal and a certificate are awarded annually to the most worthy paper published by the Institute in the Journal of Marine Science and Environment. The Institute’s awards and medals will be presented in London on Thursday 13th March 2008.

For more information please contact:

Dr. Thomas Herrington
Associate Professor
Davidson Labs
Room D-204
Phone: 201.216.5320
Fax: 201.216.8214

Thomas.Herrington@stevens.edu

Daniel Savitsky, Michael DeLorme and Raju Dalta - all of Stevens Institute of Technology won the 2007 SNAME's Cochrane Award for their paper titled "Inclusion of Whisker Spray Drag in Performance Prediction Method for High-Speed Planing Hulls" published in SNAME's journal of Marine Technology.

For more information please contact:

Daniel Savitsky
Professor Emeritus/Consultant
Davidson Laboratory
Room D-234
Phone: 201.216.5307
Fax: 201.216.8214

dsavitsk@stevens.edu

Brian Borowski was awarded second place for his paper, "Estimation of Passive Acoustic Threat Detection Distances in Estuarine Environments" at the Engineering Acoustics Student Paper contest held by the Acoustical Society of America (ASA).

The award winners were selected by ASA based upon the quality of both the content of the paper and its presentation.

For more information please contact:

Dr. Barry Bunin
Chief Architect and Lab Director-MSL
Davidson Lab
Room 225
Phone: 201 216 8216
Barry.Bunin@stevens.edu

At Stevens Institute of Technology, the object of the SURFace Masters thesis project, conducted by Brian Sweeney (Product Architecture
and Engineering Department (PAE) Masters ’06) and Dror Kodman (PAE Masters ’06), was to custom fit a surfer to a specific surfboard based on a set of location-specific conditions and by using hydrodynamic analysis to quantify the board performance. Hence, this project laid the groundwork
for more advanced board design by adding a level of engineering science to the existing practice.

For more information please contact:

Dr. Len Imas
Associate Professor
Davidson Labs
Room Room 210
Phone: 201.216.5357
limas@stevens.edu

The full-scale testing programs for Volvo Ocean race boats tests Sails, appendages, hull shapes and canting systems. Tank testing is carried out at the Davidson Laboratory of Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ.

Frank DeBord of Chesapeake Marine Technology and a Stevens Ocean Engineering Alum is managing the tank-testing program along with Raju Dalta and Len Imas of the Davidson Laboratory.