Diplomate Ceremonies |
The Academy of Coastal, Ocean, Port & Navigation Engineers (ACOPNE) holds ceremonies at most major COPRI conferences, including OTC and many PIANC events, including Dredging. If you are a Diplomate of ACOPNE and haven't participated in a ceremony, we invite you to join us. Just send us an email and let us know. Upcoming ceremonies are listed here. Below you will find photos and/or inductee's names from our previous ceremonies, in chronological order:
Ports 16 Conference
June 14, 2016
New Orleans, LA
[no group photo]
Individual photos can be found here
Steven Davie
Scott W. Fenical
Gary Mocke
Bill Paparis
Ralph A. Petereit
Doug Sereno
Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Hall of Fame Gala
May 3, 2016
Houston, TX
[no photo]
Geraldo Contreras
James Hollowell
Thomas Ward
COPRI’s Coastal Structures & Solutions to Coastal Disasters Joint Conference
September 9, 2015
Boston, MA
(L to R: Hugo Bermudez, Stephen Famularo, Bret Webb, Lynn Bocamazo, Bryan Jones, Murat Utku, John Ramsey, Joshua Carter, Andrew Cairns)
Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Hall of Fame Gala
May 5, 2015
Houston, TX
[no photo]
Ed Clukey
E.G (Skip) Ward
Robert Whalin
34th International Conference on Coastal Engineering (ICCE) 2014
June 17, 2014
Seoul, Korea
(L to R: Mohamed Dabees, Kyu-Han Kim, Ki Dai Yum, Chong-Kun Pyun, Byong Ho Choi, Xiao Li, Hans Burcharth, Kiyoshi Horikawa, Hwung-Hweng Hwung, Jang-Won Chae, Kyung-Duck Suh, Miguel A. Losada, Kyungmo Ahn)
33rd PIANC World Congress
June 5, 2014
San Francisco, CA
(L to R: Sandra Knight, Nicholas Pansic, Terence M. Browne, Philippe Rigo, James R. McCarville, Reinhard Pfliegl, Christian P. De Meyer, Michael Whelan, Honorable Jo-Ellen Darcy)
Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Hall of Fame Gala
May 6, 2014
Houston, TX
(L to R: Jane McKee Smith, Andrew Cairns, Abdel Ghoneim, Njok Lai, Abbas Sarmad, Bil Stewart, Billy Edge)
Ports 2013 Conference
Seattle, WA
August 23, 2013
(L to R: Michael Barnett, Elizabeth Burkhart, Thomas Ward, Richard Czlapinski, Robert Tolsma, John Gaythwaite, Todd Graham, Jennifer Irish, Albert Lee Barco IV)
Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Hall of Fame Gala
May 7, 2013
Houston, TX
[no photo]
Joseph Kallaby
Robert Robertson
Dredging 2012
October 23, 2012
San Diego, CA
(From L to R: Kelly Barnes, ACOPNE Public Board Member, William H. Hanson, Dist.D.NE, Robert M. Engler, Ph.D., Dist.D.NE, M.ASCE, Edmond J. Russo, Jr., Ph.D., P.E., D.CE, D.NE, M.ASCE, Edward D. Allen, P.E., D.PE, M.ASCE, Eng. Louis J. Van Schel, M.S., Dist.D.PE, Michael A. Ports, P.E., P.H., D.NE, D.WRE, BCEE, F.ASCE, ACOPNE Immediate Past-President, Douglas A. Thiessen, P.E., D.PE, M.ASCE, ACOPNE Board Member)
Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Hall of Fame Gala
May 1, 2012
Houston, TX
(L to R: William A. Kinney, James F. Sullivan, Don Riley and John Paul Woodley, Jr.)
COPRI's Coastal Engineering Practice Conference
August 22, 2011
San Diego, CA
( L to R, Front Row: Michael Cox, Douglas Gaffney, Kevin Knuuti, Neal Gruber, Young Kim; Standing: Donald Treadwell, Joseph Colonell, Billy Edge, Michael Ports, Walter Crampton, ChiaChi Lu, Ronald Heffron, Carl Strock, Richard Czlapinski, Christopher Day, Scott Douglass, Dennis Webb, Kathy Caldwell)
Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Hall of Fame Gala
May 3, 2011
Houston, TX
(L to R: William A. Kinney, James F. O'Sullivan, Don Riley and John Paul Woodley, Jr., Warren Steward (not pictured))
COPRI Congress
November 15, 2010
Memphis, TN
(L to R, Front Row: Orville Magoon, Nancy Powell, Thomas Pierro, Catherine Dunn, Scott Noble, Martin Eskijian. Standing: Michael Cox, Steven Hughes, Julie Dean Rosati, Robert Dalrymple, Billy Edge, Christopher Bender, Harley Winer, Stanley White, Robert Kirby, Allen Dupont, Richard Czlapinski)
ICCE 2010
July 1, 2010
Shanghai, China
(L to R: Minoru Hanzawa, Shigeo Takahashi, Orville Magoon, Jentsje van der Meer, Jane McKee Smith, David Kriebel, Qihua Zuo, Jiufeng Ge)
Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Hall of Fame Gala
May 4, 2010
Houston, TX
(L to R: John Bomba, Richard Seymour, Steven Balint, Gordon Sterling, Jack Templeton, Robert Dean, Robert Randall, and David Wisch)
Ports 2010 Conference
April 25, 2010
Jacksonville, FL
(L to R, Front to Back - Row 1: Stephen Curtis, Stanley White, Douglas Thiesson, Thomas Wakeman III, Thomas Campbell, Richard Czlapinski, Walter Crampton, Michael Ports, William McAnally, Robert Nichol, Edward Schmeltz; Row 2: Larry Daggett, James Dailey, Albert Browder, James Marino, Michael Whelan; Row 3: Thomas Spencer, Cliff Truitt, Michael Walther, Jack Cox, Karyn Erickson, Robert Kirby, Matthew Martinez, Lesley Ewing, Stephen Dickenson, James Clausner, Billy Edge; Row 4: Fernando Pages, Allen Dupont, Laurence Emsley, Michael Briggs, James Blanchar, Charles Calhoun, Jr., Peter Marshall, Scott Hagen, Ronald Noble, John Headland, Kevin Bodge, Christopher Creed)
