Michel OLAGNON

Born: October 7th, 1952 in Cherbourg (France).

Home: Brest, 3 rue François Arzel.

Graduated from Ecole polytechnique (Paris).
Graduated from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA), Ocean Engineering option.

Member of:

• ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
• ISOPE (International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers) - Member of the board - Chair of the Offshore Technology committee - co-chairman of ISOPE 99.
• ISSC 2000 (I.1 Metocean)
• NAG (Numerical Algorithms Group)

Main activities:

• Metocean conditions for engineering.
  • Utilization of satellite data for metocean conditions studies: CLIOSat (CLImatologies Océaniques Satellitaires), SUCCESS (Satellite Uses: a Common Course for Engineering ans Sea-conditions Studies), SCHOS (Surcotes et Caractéristiques de Houle par Observation Satellitaire).
  • Standardization of offshore practices (representing France in panel 1 (Metocean) of ISO TC67/SC7/WG3,4,5)
  • Prospective within Committee I.1, Metocean, of International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress 2000, French Clarom, and Technical Program Committee of Isope conferences.
• Software
  • Very High Resolution seismic processing : Sithere.
  • Fortran 90 : Stejoi (statistics), Fortran 90 tools, FAQ usenet Fortran 90.
  • Standardization of Fortran language (specialists group CGTI/CN22 Fortran of AFNOR)
  • Book (in French) ``Traitement de données numériques avec Fortran 90'' Published July 1996 (Masson).
• Studies of fatigue loading of materials
  • Animation of international workgroup 7 ``Statistical Analysis'' of Fatigue Commission of SFMM.
  • Work with Lund University (Sweden) on ``rainflow'' counts.

Some publications

Less serious activities:

• Jogging, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays along the coastal footpath as long as the rain is not too heavy.
• Ski, sailing, farniente.
• Reading.