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COFS would like to extend to its congratulations to Mr Joe Tom on his award of an OMAE Outreach for Engineers Specialty Forum Scholarship. The scholarship provides Joe with the opportunity to attend the 34th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering in St. John’s, Canada, as well as the OMAE 2015 Outreach to Engineers Speciality Forum.

Joe will present a paper at the conference entitled “Drained breakout resistance of a pipeline on a mobile seabed”. The paper has been co-authored by other COFS researchers Simon Leckie, David White and Scott Draper.

Joe’s PhD research investigates the formation of trenches around objects at the seabed, such as pipelines, risers and mooring line chains. The results of his research are intended to be used in development of seabed interaction models explicitly incorporating seabed trench formation and development into the overall response.

For further details on Joe’s research, please contact him on [email protected]

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Rochelle Gunn, Centre for Offshore Foundation Systems, +61 8 6488 3183, [email protected]