News
February 9, 2018
Spotlight on PhD Student Dunja Stanisic
Dunja Stanisic is one of the PhD students in the Project 3: Reliable Moorings and Risers project stream. Dunja’s research explores mooring systems, looking at extreme loads in the mooring lines of offshore floating facilities. Extreme mooring loads are difficult to predict due to the randomness of the environment (waves, wind and current) and the complexities…
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January 31, 2018
Hydrodynamics specialist Bernard Molin to visit the OFFshore ITRH
During the 2017 Ocean Offshore & Arctic Engineering (OMAE) conference, OFFshore ITRH Chief Investigator Dr Wenhua Zhao invited Prof Bernard Molin from the École Centrale de Marseille, France, to visit UWA. We are excited to announce that Prof Molin will spend two weeks with the Project Two: Wave-Structure interaction team in early March 2018. During…
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January 18, 2018
Changes afoot at the OFFshore ITRH
Late last year a number of personnel changes occurred within the ITRH for Offshore Floating Facilities (OFFshore), injecting new excitement into an already energized group of industry focused UWA-based researchers. Phil Watson was appointed as the new Director of the OFFshore ITRH. Phil joined UWA from Fugro-AG where he was the Global Director of GeoConsulting….
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July 10, 2017
The OFFshore ITRH have the numbers at OMAE 2017
At the recent 36th annual international Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE) conference in Trondheim, Norway, the OFFshore ITRH was represented by 15 papers co-authored by 18 current members. In addition, members of the OFFshore ITRH chaired 5 sessions throughout the four day multi-stream conference. This is a considerable achievement by researchers within the OFFshore…
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July 10, 2017
Hub researcher Cynthia Bluteau awarded a postdoctoral fellowship
Dr Cynthia Bluteau, who is currently a Research Associate within the School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering at UWA and an Associate Researcher in the Offshore Floating Facilities ITRH, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). NSERC awards 180 postdoctoral fellowships each year to Canadian…
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July 10, 2017
KISSME team sets sail!
Members of both the UWA Ocean Dynamics group and the OFFshore ITRH have recently returned from the Kimberley Internal Soliton, Sediment and Mixing Experiment (KISSME). The KISSME experiment was set in the highly energetic Browse Basin; a region of great environmental and economic significance to Australia. Trip one (in early April) involved deployment of a…
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June 18, 2017
OFFshore Hub Director Professor David White elected a Fellow of RINA
OFFshore Hub Director Professor David White has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA). RINA is an internationally renowned professional institution whose members are involved at all levels in the design, construction, maintenance and operation of marine vessels and structures. Members of RINA are widely represented in industry, universities and…
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December 21, 2016
Dr Wenhua Zhao wins Best Paper Award for 2016
OFFshore ITRH researcher Dr Wenhua Zhao has, together with his collaborators Ningbo Gao, Jianmin Yang & Xin Li (all Shanghai Jiao Tong University), won the 2016 best paper award from the Journal of Ships and Offshore Structures for a paper entitled “Numerical simulation of deterministic freak wave sequences and wave-structure interaction”. In this study, a…
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December 15, 2016
OFFshore ITRH researcher Dr Sam Stanier wins 2017 ARC Early Career Researcher Grant
OFFshore ITRH researcher Dr Sam Stanier, who is the current Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Project Four research stream (Novel anchors and subsea foundation systems), has won a much coveted Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), commencing in 2017 for three years. The DECRA scheme is a separate element of the ARC Discovery Programme which…
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October 5, 2016
@OFFshoreHub members win 2017 UWA Research Collaboration Award
The results of the 2017 UWA Research Collaboration Awards have been announced. A total of 117 highly competitive applications were received, requesting a total of $3,004,478 in research funds. UWA has awarded a total of $824,093 in funding across 38 projects. These projects will expand the University’s research collaborations, both nationally and internationally. A team lead by Chief…
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