2024 Events

GUEST SPEAKER:  Thalía Krüger, Senior Business Development Manager, Principle Power and SNAME Fellow
PRESENTATION:  On offshore floating wind energy.
Via Arctic Section Zoom on January 24; via Headquarters GoToWebinar on January 31. (Abstract link below)

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GUEST SPEAKER:  Richard McKenna, Consultant, Wakefield, Quebec. 
PRESENTATION:  Initiation of motion for stationary and landfast ice covers as it pertains to shipping and on-ice travel.
Via Arctic Section Zoom on February 21. (Abstract link below)

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GUEST SPEAKER:  Arno Keinonen, Retired, President of AKAC Inc. Dr. Sci & M. Sci in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. Sooke, BC.
PRESENTATION:  Lessons from Operational Ice Risk Management in Arctic Pioneering.  
Via Headquarters GoToWebinar on February 28. (Abstract link below)

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GUEST SPEAKER:  Peter G Noble, Noble Associates Inc, and SNAME Fellow.  
PRESENTATION:  Denny Shipyard – A History of Innovation from the “Cutty Sark” to Surface Effects Ships.
Via Arctic Section Zoom on April 24; via Headquarters GoToWebinar on May 1. (Abstract link below)

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GUEST SPEAKER:  Ben Seligman, PhD, Oil and Gas Project Specialist, Calgary, AB.  
PRESENTATION:  Russian Arctic Offshore Update.
Via Arctic Section Zoom on May 15; via Headquarters GoToWebinar on May 29. (Abstract link below)

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