Student Poster Competition

Past Poster Examples

Explore examples from previous OCEANS Student Poster Competitions and see how past winners presented their research, findings and technical contributions.

Looking for inspiration? Select any poster image below to open and review the full-size poster. These examples are provided for inspiration; authors should follow the current OCEANS 2026 Monterey poster requirements and template.

2020

OCEANS Gulf Coast

First Place
Poster by Jordan Pierce View Poster

Jordan Pierce

University of New Hampshire, USA

Reducing Annotation Times: Semantic Segmentation of Coral Reef Survey Images

Second Place
Poster by Francesco Ruscio View Poster

Francesco Ruscio

University of Pisa, Italy

Geo-referenced Visual Data for Posidonia Oceanica Coverage Using Audio for Data Synchronization

Third Place
Poster by Kavita Varma View Poster

Kavita Varma

Florida Atlantic University, USA

Autonomous Plankton Classification from Reconstructed Holographic Imagery by L1-PCA-Assisted Convolutional Neural Networks

2020

OCEANS Singapore

First Place
Poster by Marija Jegorova View Poster

Marija Jegorova

The University of Edinburgh, UK

Unlimited Resolution Image Generation with R2D2-GANs

Second Place
Poster by Matias Carandell View Poster

Matias Carandell

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Impact on the Wave Parameters Estimation of a Kinetic Energy Harvester Embedded into a Drifter

Third Place
Poster by Eduardo Ochoa Melendez View Poster

Eduardo Ochoa Melendez

University of Girona, Spain

Allowing Untrained Scientists to Safely Pilot ROVs: Early Collision Detection and Avoidance Using Omnidirectional Vision

2019

OCEANS Seattle

First Place
Poster by Bernardo Teixeira View Poster

Bernardo Teixeira

INESC TEC, Portugal

Deep Learning Approaches Assessment for Underwater Scene Understanding and Egomotion Estimation

Second Place
Poster by Philip Leadbitter View Poster

Philip Leadbitter

University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

A Methodology for Thorpe Scaling 512 Hz Fast Thermistor Data from Buoyancy-Driven Gliders to Estimate Turbulent Kinetic Energy Dissipation Rate in the Ocean

Third Place
Poster by Nare Karapetyan View Poster

Nare Karapetyan

University of South Carolina

Dynamic Autonomous Surface Vehicle Control and Applications in Environmental Monitoring

2019

OCEANS Marseille

First Place
Poster by Léa Bouffaut View Poster

Léa Bouffaut

Naval Academy Research Institute

Automated Blue Whale Song Transcription Across Variable Acoustic Contexts

Second Place
Poster by Mengxue Hou View Poster

Mengxue Hou

Georgia Institute of Technology

Partitioning Ocean Flow Field for Underwater Vehicle Path Planning

Third Place
Poster by Wendy Snyder View Poster

Wendy Snyder

University of Rhode Island

Effects of Incorporating Inertial Measurements on the Localization Accuracy of the Seaglider AUV

2018

OCEANS Charleston

First Place
Poster by Joshua Mangelson View Poster

Joshua Mangelson

University of Michigan

Communication-Constrained Trajectory Alignment for Multi-Agent Inspection via Linear Programming

Second Place
Poster by Dheepak Nand Kishore Khatri View Poster

Dheepak Nand Kishore Khatri

North Carolina State University

Investigation of a Novel Approach for Ocean Current Power Generation: The Inclined-Axis Coaxial Turbine

Third Place
Poster by Sara Cardigos View Poster

Sara Cardigos

University of Aveiro

Using LAUVs in Highly Dynamic Environments: Influence of the Tidal Estuarine Outflow in the Thermocline Structure

2018

OCEANS Kobe

First Place
Poster by Jin Wei Lim View Poster

Jin Wei Lim

University of Southampton

Automated Interpretation of Seafloor Visual Maps Obtained Using Underwater Robots

Second Place
Poster by Eduard Vidal View Poster

Eduard Vidal

Universitat de Girona

Online Robotic Exploration for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles in Unstructured Environments

Third Place
Poster by Mitchell Borg View Poster

Mitchell Borg

University of Strathclyde

Numerical Analysis of a Ducted High-Solidity Tidal Turbine

2017

OCEANS Anchorage

First Place
Poster by Kaitlyn Morgan View Poster

Kaitlyn Morgan

Clemson University

Higher Order Bessel Beams Integrated in Time (HOBBIT) for Free-Space Underwater Sensing and Communication

Second Place
Poster by Arnold Kalmbach View Poster

Arnold Kalmbach

McGill University

Learning Seasonal Phytoplankton Communities with Topic Models

Third Place
Poster by Zhuoyuan Song View Poster

Zhuoyuan Song

University of Florida

Cooperative Mid-Depth Navigation Aided by Ocean Current Prediction

2017

OCEANS Aberdeen

First Place
Poster by Klemen Istenic View Poster

Klemen Istenic

University of Girona

Mission-Time 3D Reconstruction with Quality Estimation

Second Place
Poster by Bilal Wehbe View Poster

Bilal Wehbe

DFKI – Robotics Innovation Center

Learning Coupled Dynamic Models of Underwater Vehicles Using Support Vector Regression

Third Place
Poster by Habib Mirhedayati Roudsari View Poster

Habib Mirhedayati Roudsari

Dalhousie University

Channel Model for Wideband Time-Varying Underwater Acoustic Systems

2016

OCEANS Monterey

First Place
Poster by Joshua Baghdady View Poster

Joshua Baghdady

Clemson University

Underwater Optical Communication Link Using Orbital Angular Momentum Space-Division Multiplexing

Second Place
Poster by Mohammad Haghighat View Poster

Mohammad Haghighat

University of Miami

Segmentation, Classification and Modeling of Two-Dimensional Forward-Scan Sonar Imagery for Efficient Coding and Synthesis

Third Place
Poster by Yue Ma View Poster

Yue Ma

Memorial University of Newfoundland

First-Order High-Frequency Radar Ocean Surface Cross Section Incorporating...

Prepare Your OCEANS 2026 Monterey Poster

Use these past winners for inspiration, but be sure to follow the current poster dimensions, presentation requirements and submission instructions provided for OCEANS 2026 Monterey.