Planning Meeting
Marriott Conference Room, Golden Gate A-1
55 Fourth
Street
San Francisco, CA
Sunday, December 9, 2001
The meeting
room will be equipped with the following audio/visual equipment:
·
Microphone and Podium
·
Overhead Projector
·
8’ x 8’ Screen
·
VGA/SVGA Computer Projector (Individual MAC or
PC laptops can be hooked-up for PowerPoint presentations)
·
35 mm Slide Projector
·
½” VHS Player (this will run through the computer
projector and project on the screen)
It is requested that all individuals who have
been asked to make presentations provide a copy of their material (electronic
format preferred or paper copy) to the UNOLS Office. Presentations can be submitted to the UNOLS Office in advance of
the meeting at office@unols.org or they
can be given to Annette DeSilva at the meeting. Presentation material will be included in the meeting minutes.
08:00 Coffee,
Distribution of Meeting Material (Written Reports)
08:15 Approval of Minutes of May 2001 DESSC meeting
08:20 Introduction
- DESSC Chair's Report
08:30 2001
Science Reports - Presentations by
Principal Investigators
·
ALVIN users
·
ROV/AUV
users
·
Users of
other facility assets
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 National
Deep Submergence Facility Operator’s Report (WHOI)
·
Introduction
·
Operations Summary - NDSF vehicle systems
·
WHOI
work plans for 2002-2003
Ž ATLANTIS
*
Work Done
*
Work to be Done
*
Community input for improvements
Ž ALVIN
*
Overhaul (2001) report
*
Community input
Ž ROV
Upgrade
*
Progress
*
Scheduling for field trials
Ž Scheduling
for 2002/2003
·
Archive Update (Dan Fornari)
11:30 Other Facility Operator Reports
·
HBOI (S.
Pomponi)
·
MBARI (M.
Chaffey)
·
MPL (F.
Spiess)
·
HURL
·
ROPOS
12:00 –
13:30 Break for Lunch (Attendees will be on their own for lunch and DESSC
members will hold an executive session)
13:30 6500m Sub
and New Alvin Construction Advisory Committee (NACAC)
13:45 WHOI/NDSF Chief Scientist
13:55 Agency
and UNOLS reports
14:10 NOAA
Ocean Exploration Initiative
14:30 -
14:45 Break
14:45 Shallow-water
Submergence Science Ad Hoc Committee
Mandate,
membership, support (comments from facility reps?)
Issues: Science,
Technology needs, Access and Funding
15:05 Long-Range and Expeditionary Planning
Discussion
15:20 Report on the UNOLS DESCEND
tech follow-up plans
·
Technology
workshop
·
DESSC's
role
15:30 Announcements
of future submergence meetings:
·
AGU/ASLO
Special session (February 2002)
·
Archeology
(MIT, April 2002 - Dave Mindell)
·
Spring
Benthic Ecology meeting (Florida - C.L Van Dover)
·
NOAA/NASA Exploration
2002 - LINK Symposium (Spring 2002)
15:45 Updates
on public outreach and education activities?
·
NOAA
Explorations: Deep East 2001
·
New Millennium Observatory
(NeMO)
·
UNOLS Public Outreach and Education Links
·
Deep submergence lectureships
16:15
Issues related to access to Submergence Science Assets and Funding
16:35 Adjourn
Monday, December 10, 2001 at
9:00 AM
Location: Sony IMAX Theater at Metreon,
101
4th
Street (across from the AGU/Moscone Center)
A 20-minute
selection of some of the first extensively illuminated super-high fidelity
footage of the deep ocean will be presented on the IMAX screen. Filmed from
Alvin in the 15/70mm giant screen film format, the footage includes shots from
hydrothermal vent sites in the Atlantic and Pacific (600m to 4000m). The raw
footage being presented is part of “Voyage
into the Abyss" (working title) a giant screen film now in production and
scheduled for release September 2002.
The
screening is in follow-up to the Principal Investigators report at the DESSC
meeting and includes footage from the recent August Mid-Atlantic Ridge cruise
for the project. The presentation is also open to AGU attendees.
Voyage into the Abyss is a collaborative science education outreach effort produced by Volcanic Ocean Films Inc., an affiliate of The Stephen Low Company, together with Rutgers University. Major financial support for the project comes from the National Science Foundation. Project contributors include: the New England Aquarium (Boston), the Museum of Science and Technology (Syracuse) and the University of South Florida. Filming for the project has been completed principally with submersible Alvin and the deep submergence resources of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and brings together the latest advances in submarine imaging and lighting technology including a new lighting array configured specially for the submersible and the unique demands of this project.
The final
film will be the culmination of over six years of development and the first
concerted effort to light and capture a diversity of the ocean’s extreme environments
in a high-definition presentation. Via the giant screen, the Voyage into the
Abyss project will give audiences around the world a ‘being there’
experience of dimensions of the planet that most have never truly seen before:
including submarine volcanoes, hydrothermal vents and strange communities of
deep-sea organisms.