The Marine Environmental Engineering Awards, established by the Journal of Marine Environmental Engineering and associated academic organizations in 2023, recognize outstanding contributions in marine environmental and engineering fields.
The awards include the Rising Star, Outstanding Young Researcher, and Lifetime Achievement categories. The Rising Star Award, an annual recognition, honors early-career researchers. The Outstanding Young Researcher Award is presented annually to biennially for mid-career excellence, and the Lifetime Achievement Award is a biennial to triennial honor for globally renowned figures.
For detailed award categories and nomination guidelines, please see the official awards announcement.
We proudly present the award recipients:
Rising Star Award
2023
Srineash Vijaya Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
“For his nuanced contributions to wave-structure interaction studies, especially those related to modular porous reef breakwaters”
Outstanding Young Researcher Award
2023
Xuguang Chen (Ocean University of China, China)
“For his innovative efforts in marine environmental geotechnology related to deep sea mining and contributions to improvements in scour around offshore wind turbine foundations”
Lifetime Achievement Award
2023
Devendra Narain Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
“For his monumental contributions to the sciences of environmental geotechnology which have led to a better understanding of offshore gas hydrates, multi-phase geomaterials, and sustainable development”