Appendix VI

Science Liaison Functions

Office Composition

Present

• Don Moller (with a lot of involvement & assistance from Ruth & Barbara)

Proposed

• Coordinator/Science
• Liaison/Scheduler
• Assistant Coordinator
• Staff Assistant II

Pre-Proposal Phase  

• Providing assistance to PI's regarding:
• Capabilities
• Costs
• Weather windows
• Instrumentation
• EEZ issues and diplomatic clearances
• Connecting PI's with similar geographic and or scientific interests, etc.
• Advertising and salesmanship

Scheduling Phase

In close coordination with the Port Office, Ships, Deep Submergence Operations Group ship technicians and community input, put together proposed schedules of:

• Three large ships
• Coastal SWATH
• Submersibles

Cruise Preparation Phase

• Prepare cruise plan/prospectus using:
• Pre-cruise meetings
• Electronic planning tools

• These will include:
• WHOI (and science-provided) instrumentation
• Financial arrangements
• Logistics planning
• Foreign clearances
• Special manning

Execution Phase

• Monitoring and assisting as needed each cruise mobilization and demobilization
• Post-cruise feedback
• Billing
• Data disposition
• Archiving
• Post-cruise reports
• Science feedback/lessons-learned