Vegard Aksnes was selected as the recipient of the 2009 POAC Best Student Paper Award. Vegard is a PhD student at NTNU working on the topic of response of moored ships to drifting ice. The title of his paper was “A Simplified Approach for Modelling Stochastic Response of Moored Vessels in Level Ice”.

Vegard Aksnes accepting his award for best student paper at POAC09. The award was presented by POAC President Lennart Fransson.