OES Standards Initiative

Information on standards, protocols, quality assurance (QA) procedures, and best practices that are important in ocean engineering is widely scattered throughout the literature, both published and unpublished. To promote good practice in ocean engineering, the OES Standards Initiative of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society aims to compile and disseminate such information through the OES website on a dedicated “Standards” webpage under Technical Activities. This publication will be supported by papers to OCEANS Conferences and other conferences, meetings, and symposia. The OES Standards Committee is coordinating this work, as well as promoting collaboration with the other Technology Committees of OES. The Committee is also soliciting information on standards from the ocean engineering and oceanographic communities. In this presentation, three examples of standards information are described in the manner of their intended publication on the webpage. These include standards on the equation of state of sea water; standards used in the offshore oil and gas industry; and standards and protocols for the calibration of electroacoustic transducers and sonars.