I.   Meeting Announcement
II.   Ship Scheduling Review Meeting Attendance List
III.  Ship Cost Summary 1998 & 1999 
IV.   1999 Proposed Cruise Tracks  
 

Introduction:

The Ship Schedule Review Group met on 23 June in Room 730 of the National Science Foundation as per the Chair’s announcement, Appendix I.  Those present were Don Moller, Chair; Mike Prince, Vice Chair; Dolly Dieter, NSF; Sujata Millick, ONR; Scott McKellar, NOAA; Elizabeth White, NOAA; Gordon Wilkes, NAVO; and Jack Bash, UNOLS.  Others attending are included on the attendance list, Appendix II.

The meeting was called to order at 0830 by Don Moller.  Don welcomed the attendees and outlined the plan for addressing scheduling issues.

Each ship’s proposed schedule was reviewed. The cost summaries for 1998 are included in Appendix III.  Appendix IV includes the ship tracks submitted by the schedulers reflecting the schedules presented.  Comments and recommendations of this review follows in the order addressed.
 

ALPHA HELIX - University of Alaska - The funding decision has yet to be made on the  Hunt cruise listed as TBP.  The funding for the GLOBEC work for Weingartner will be split 50/50 with NSF and NOAA.  This funding has not been finalized.  A three day cruies for Button should be added to the schedule.
 

BARNES - University of Washington - The funding for the second Murray cruise has been declined.  Also declined was the seven days of NOAA time for Banse.
 

MOANA WAVE - University of Hawaii - SeaBeam is required on the NAVO HITS work and therefore must be rescheduled on MELVILLE.  The twelve days funded for Lukas has not been funded.  The Popp work has been funded.  The mooring load for TAO NOAA work is considered too large for MOANA WAVE.  This cruise will be handled by BROWN.  MOANA WAVE is expected to be retired at the end of 1999.  The NAVO Shallow Water Test Range request is withdrawn.
 

NEW HORIZON - Scripps - The Collier work has been funded but should be scheduled on WECOMA if possible.  Goldfinger is double booked on WECOMA.  In an effort to reduce transit time both of these cruise should be on WECOMA unless the Collier work conflicts with FOCI.  In that case both should be on NEW HORIZON.  An additional consideration is the need for Goldfinger to complete his work before the ALVIN/ATLANTIS program. SeaBeam has not been authorized for the Goldfinger cruise. If it is not possible to move the Collier and Goldfinger work to WECOMA and the two programs remain on the schedule the Chavez and Army Corp/SFSU cruises can be run out of San Francisco.  The Goldfinger, Collins, and Torres  (ATLANTIS) programs are intertwined.  The scheduling of thse programs need to be coordinated. The funding of five days for Staudigel has been declined.  Twenty three days of CalCOFI work should be added to the schedule.  The NAVO OAOA work is flexible but should be scheduled as early as possible in the year.  The Worcester/ONR 13 day work has been moved to REVELLE for 11 days.
 

POINT SUR - Moss Landing Marine Laboratory -  The Bruland work has been funded.  The NPS work remains pending.  The spring NAVO cruise should move earlier if possible.
 

WECOMA - Oregon State University - See comments above in regards to Collier and Goldfinger.  The ONR Nittrouer and Moum work has been funded, Ruttenberg declined. If possible the Webb recovery cruise should move to EWING for a joint Menke/Webb cruise.  The NOAA portion of the Smith work needs to be resolved.
 

SPROUL - Scripps - The Jaffe NSF work has been declined while the Jaffe ONR work remains pending.  The number of days for Pineda needs to be checked.  The Melville K work remains pending.  Pickering is SPAWAR funded not ONR.
 

URRACA - STRI - Glynn work of 15 days NSF time has been funded.
 

LAURENTIAN - University of Michigan - The Cuhel work has been funded and should be added to the schedule.  All NSF Coop work is still being worked out.
 

GYRE - TAMU -  The schedule remains as presented.
 

LONGHORN - University of Texas - The NOAA ECHOHAB work of Muller-Karger has not been funded.
 

PELICAN - LUMCON - Funding for two Bianchi cruises and two Houde cruises have been declined.  The Thorsos cruise should be listed as ONR not Private.   Briggs has been funded for 18 days not 20.  The Graham OCE number is 9733441.  Add 21 days of NOAA work for Vargo (ex ENDEAVOR and CAPE HATTERAS).  Add 16 days of NRL work for Erskine (ex CAPE HATTERAS) two ship operations with SEWARD JOHNSON.
 

WEATHERBIRD II - BBSR - The WEATHERBIRD II schedule should stand as submitted.
 

CALANUS - University of Miami - The funding for Milne, McNeill and Saltzman have all been declined.  No proposal was received for Szmant.  The Zika work is funded.  The OCE number for Fell is 984182.
 

BLUE FIN - Skidaway - Check the cruise for Verity.  Is this carry-over work?  Nelson’s NSF work has been declined, the ONR work is still in question.  The Paffenhofer 1998 proposal has been declined.  NOAA’s SEA GRANT cruise for Blanton is still pending.
 

SEA DIVER - HBOI- The ONR Phiney work has been funded.  NURP programs could be added to this schedule.
 

CAPE HATTERAS - Duke/UNC - Is the Paffenhofer work carry-over?  He has not been funded for 1999.  The Matrai work should be transferred to OCEANUS, LINK or ENDEAVOR.  Both the NOAA Vargo work and the NRL Erskine work should go to
PELICAN to reduce transit time.  The NAVO work off Virginia Beach should go to CAPE HENLOPEN.  Boyd is still pending, Herbers is funded.
 

CAPE HENLOPEN - University of Delaware - The Wong cruise should be scheduled for May and October.  The Boyd cruise is pending.  The ONR Blough cruise is funded.
 

EDWIN LINK - HBOI - The funding for the Youngbluth cruise has been declined.  See notes for CAPE HATTERAS  above concerning Matrai.  The OCE number for Cook is 9619707.  There are two cruises for Gilligan the first has been funded and the second is pending.
 

ENDEAVOR - University of Rhode Island - The Muller-Karger NOAA work has been declined.  Vargo should go to PELICAN and Sanford to SEWARD JOHNSON.  Both Jones and Patterson have been declined.  See note for CAPE HATTERAS above concerning Matrai.  The GLOBEC work still needs to be sorted out.
 

OCEANUS - WHOI -  The Moffett work needs to go later.  Erskine is funded but should be listed as ONR not NRL.  The Houghton, and Beardsley work is still pending.  Madin, Collins, Chave and Ravizza have been declined.  See note for CAPE HATTERAS above concerning Matrai.  The GLOBEC work still needs to be sorted out.  The Zafiriou program is funded.
 

SEWARD JOHNSON - .HBOI - The work of Limeburner, Wilson, Pawlik, Erskine and Thorsos are all funded.  The Sanford work may be scheduled later than desired.  NRL has a project for Richardson and ONR has an acoustics proposal for possible additional work in the AUTEC area.
 

ATLANTIS - WHOI - All scheduled cruises have an ALVIN component.  The schedule as published needs to be paired down by about 30 days.  It may be possible to shift Carson and Cowen to JASON and relieve pressure on ALVIN.  These cruises are to be run on THOMPSON or REVELLE.  Seyfried could possibly move to another vent site to save time on the Juan de Fuca.  Garcia and Blackman will be delayed until 2000.
 

KNORR - WHOI - The funding for all programs on KNORR have been declined except for Smith and the NAVO GOMEX program.  If Smith can use Hydro-sweep this cruise could go on EWING early in the year.  NAVO will reevaluate the GOMEX work to determine if the SeaBeam component can be removed from this program thus opening it up for a smaller vessel.  The Fairbanks/LDEO cruise is not on any schedule and may not be appropriate for any UNOLS vessel.
 

BROWN - NOAA -  The NSF Weller cruise has not been funded. BROWN will sail with only NOAA programs.  The ship expects to be able to do the TAO work in the fall of 1999.
 

EWING/MELVILLE/REVELLE and THOMPSON were considered as a group.  Below is a listing by PI as assigned to each ship.  The decisions were made to reduce transits where possible. The cruises are not necessarily listed in the appropriate sequence.   The following programs were declined from this grouping of ships: Hart/Kurz (EWING), Coale (EWING), Weller (REVELLE), Fisher (THOMPSON).
 

EWING - Smith NSF 30; Webb NSF 3/ Menke NSF 15; Bangs NSF 43; Mutter NSF 19; Martinez NSF 41; Staudigal NSF 48; Harding NSF 19; Capone NSF 30; (Mutter NSF 10; Fulthorpe ODP 35 in 2000)
 

MELVILLE - Wilkes HITS NAVO 34; Wilkes Gravity NAVO 75; Talley ONR 58, Wilkes Gravity NAVO 75; Perkins NRL 11; Worcester ONR 17. (the gravity programs to be split as necessary for running ONR/NRL programs in acceptable time slots).  Decision made to designate lead PI as Riser not Talley.  (The Howe cruise on MELVILLE’s schedule is the one listed as Worcester ONR 17.  This is a separate cruise from the Worcester cruise that was originally on NEW HORIZON and was moved to REVELLE.)
 

REVELLE - Pinkel UC 5; Kastner UC 9; Spiess NSF 12; Goldfinger NSF 30; Van Geen NSF 34; Fornari NSF 41; Lonsdale NSF 28;  Worcester ONR 11; Trehu NSF 14.
 

THOMPSON - Wilkes Columbia River NAVO 20; Bullock SE Bering Sea 26; UW 45; Stratoform NSF 19; Bullock Vents NOAA #1, 24; Bullock Vents NOAA #2, 23; Bullock Multi-Moorings NOAA, 32, Chadwick NSF, 5; Cowen/Carson NSF 20; Wilkes Columbia River NAVO 20; Bullock Bering Sea NOAA 36.