The Society is pleased to announce that Fugro-GEOS Ltd will be again offering awards for the best project or thesis work in applied marine science or technology. There will be awards of £500 in each of the categories of final year undergraduate and MSc.

The invitations to universities to nominate students will be made later this year.

The scope of the awards cover a broad area of marine science and technology. They are applicable to much of the work carried out in oceanographic, marine environmental and marine technology related courses of study. Undergraduates will only be considered for their own project, and thus joint projects should not be considered.

Accompanying recommendations should contain a short synopsis of the project/thesis, and appraisal of the quality of the work and of the student, and an assessment of its application potential to marine science and industry. It should be no longer than two pages of A4.

Nominations are assessed by a Selection Panel comprising members of the Society's Educational and Training Committee, including a representative from Fugro-GEOS Ltd.

A short-list of a maximum of five students will be drawn up, and their full project work/ thesis will be requested from their universities. Depending on timescales, the awards are usually presented at either the Society's Annual General Meeting in December, or the Subsea Engineering Dinner in June.

Short-listed students are encouraged to publish their work as a paper, jointly authored with their supervisor, in the Society's Journal Underwater Technology.