List of conferences, workshops, tutorial, etc., in the marine robotics field. If you want your activity to be listed here, please send a mail to one of the chairs.

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• 2009, December 1, Special issue on State of the Art in Maritime Autonomous Surface and Underwater Vehicles of the Journal of Field Robotics.
• 2009, November 23, Senior Researchers / Researchers in Underwater Robotics. In the field of innovative software technologies, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) is the leading research institution in Germany, and in the international science community the DFKI ranks among the most important "Centers of Excellence" worldwide. Within research projects at DFKI Bremen there are open positions for Senior Researchers / Researchers in Underwater Robotics.
• 2009, November 30, 3 open PhD Positions - Underwater Robotics - University of Girona, Spain. Message appeared in the robotics-worldwide mailing list in date November, 19th, 2009. Author: Dr. Marc Carreras.
• 2009, September 15. Several invited sessions in marine robotics planned for next ICRA 2010, Anchorage, Alaska.
• 2009, July 6-13, WRSC/IRSC 2009 World Robotic Sailing Championship International Robotic Sailing Conference . Matosinhos, Portugal.
• 2009, June 29, half-day workshop on Aquatic Robots and Ocean Sampling will at RSS 2009.
• 2009, June 17-19, 8th International Navigational Symposium on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation TRANS-NAV 2009 . Gdynia Maritime University, Faculty of Navigation, Navigation Department, Poland.
• 2009, June 12, A postgraduate research position is open at Ifremer's Underwater Systems Department for an early stage researcher (ESR) to develop image processing and sensor fusion algorithms for underwater image mosaicking. The candidate will join the European research training network FreesubNET and contribute to the development of a challenging underwater exploration application. Further details at the following link. Message appeared in the Euron dist mailing list in date June, 12th, 2009. Author: Max Blanco.
• 2009, June 1, Special issue on Marine Robotic Systems of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine.
• 2009, May 31-June 5, OMAE 2009, the 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
• 2009, May 30, OMAE 2009, ASME-IPTI introduces Short Courses in conjunction with OMAE 2009, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
• 2009, May 29-26, IMCD 2009, The 10th International Marine Design Conference. Trondheim, Norway.
• 2009, May 17, Full-day Workshop on Recent developments in marine robotics at next ICRA 2009, Kobe, Japan.
• 2009, May 11-14, IEEE Oceans' 09, Bremen, Germany.
• 2009, May 10-12, 8th International Conference on Computer Applications and Information Technology in the Maritime Industries, COMPIT2009, Budapest, H.
• 2009, April 21-24, The International Symposium on Underwater Technology (UT 2009) will be held in Wuxi, China on 21-24 April 2009.
• 2009, January 26, several job openings at the Jacobs University Robotics Group. The positions are suited for candidates at postdoc as well as doctorate student level. Furthermore, there is an opening for a technician. Topics are "3D Underwater Perception and Mapping", "Underwater Multi Robot Simulation" and "Cognitive AUV Control". The three Postdoc/PhD positions at Jacobs Robotics are related to the EU-project "Cooperative Cognitive Control for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (Co3-AUVs)". Message appeared in the Euron dist mailing list in date January, 26th, 2009. Author: prof. Andreas Birk.
• 2008, December 11, The Autonomous System group at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) invites applications for 1 postdoc position. Further details at the following link. Message appeared in the robotics-worldwide mailing list in date October, 15th, 2008. Author: Dr. Kanna Rajan.
• Open PhD/PostDoc research positions within the domain of multi-robot systems, reconfigurable and evolutionary robotics as well as underwater robots (EU-projects, see for example www.symbrion.eu) at the Dep. of Parallel and Distributed Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany. Message appeared in the robotics-worldwide mailing list in date November, 12th, 2008. Author: Dr. Serge Kernbach.
• 2008, October 31, deadline for the Fifth Call for proposal to apply for the M.E.T.R.I.-2 project. The European Union offers a free-of-charge access to IFREMER Marine Environment Tests and Research Infrastructure.
• 2008, October 14-15, IEEE International Conference to Discuss Underwater Noise Measurement, Impact and Mitigation. Novotel Hotel, Southampton, UK.
• 2008, October 13-14, IEEE AUV 2008 Workshop on Polar AUVs . Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
• The AI Laboratory of the University of Zurich has openings for a number of PostDoc and PhD positions in Robotics and Embodied AI. Among the main themes: "Novel design principles and technologies for soft-bodied robots inspired by the octopus". Additional information can be found on: http://ailab.ifi.uzh.ch/research/open-positions. Message appeared in the robotics-worldwide mailing list in date September, 23rd, 2008. Author: Prof. Lijin Aryananda.
• Positions available for candidates wishing to apply for a Post-Doc or a Research Assistantship grant at the Institute for Systems and Robotics, University of Coimbra. Underwater robotics is among the scientific areas under which grants are being offered. Message appeared in the robotics-worldwide mailing list in date July, 23rd, 2008. Author: Prof. Lino Marques.
• 2008, June 28, RSS 2008 Workshop Underwater Robotics... at the Microscale. ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• Two Postdoctoral Research Positions in Marine Robotics at the Robotic Embedded Systems Lab, University of Southern California, CA, USA. Message appeared in the robotics-worldwide mailing list in date June, 23rd, 2008. Author: Prof. Gaurav Sukhatme.