Arctic Icebreaker Coordinating Committee (AICC)
Agenda for Meeting
Room 1235 - Board Room
National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia
September 23 & 24, 2002 (Monday & Tuesday)
SCHEDULE FOR MEETING
Day 1: 0830-1700
0950-1010 morning break
1200-1300 lunch
1430-1450 afternoon break
Day 2: 0830-1430
0950-1010 morning break
1145-1300 lunch
AGENDA ITEMS
1. General business & reports.
Review and approve minutes of last meeting: http://www.unols.org/meetings/2002/aicmt201/aicmi201.html
Chair report.
AICC
Action items
UNOLS reports (Mike Prince)
FIC
Report (Terry Whitledge)
Agency Reports
NSF/OPP (Tom Pyle/Simon Stephenson)
NOAA
(Kathy Crane)
ONR
(Dennis Conlon)
NSF
OCE (if present)
Others
ARVOC report (Bill Detrich/Northeastern University)
Coast Guard Icebreaker Operations (Headquarters) report
-
Impact of USCG moving to Homeland Security on icebreaker ops?
Coast Guard Pacific Area report(s)
2. 2002 Science Operations:
HEALY Arctic West Summer 2002 (AWS '02)
Shelf Basin Interactions (SBI)
Marine Climate and Relative
Sea Level Across Central Beringia (Brigham-Grette, Keigwin & Driscoll)
POLAR STAR
Shelf Basin Interactions (SBI)
Chukchi
Borderlands
3. Clearances
Foreign Clearances - Liz Tirpak, U.S.
State Dept.
Law of the Sea Implications for Coast Guard Icebreakers - Larry Mayer, UNH
Native Community and other permitting concerns
Working in the presence of whales, whaling
activities, marine mammals
Debrief
of SBI issues by Renee Crain, OPP
4. Scheduling and planning for 2003 & Beyond.
Scheduling Process Update
HEALY
POLAR SEA
POLAR STAR
2005 Expedition possibility: Invitation
received from The Swedish Polar Research Organization to join the "Beringia Expedition" in the Arctic in 2005.
5. Science of Opportunity.
Future plans, if any
6. Science Modifications, Infrastructure and Equipment
HEALY
Planning for the 2004 dry-docking
ADCP update
Seawater systems
High latitude communications
Multi-beam system (survey of sensors)
GPS aided inertial navigation system
Status of Science Data Network (all vessels)
Other requirements and plans (need input)
POLARS
RIP program status and plans
Status of renovations and upgrades
EQUIPMENT PURCHASES
2002 equipment purchase report
Replacement of lost equipment
Equipment needed or planned for 2003
Longer range plans
7. Science operations and technical support
Identification of 2003 Arctic
icebreaker technical support requirements.
Status of RFP/Sources sought for technical assistance
Status of RFP for web site/cruise planning manual assistance
Status of science planning documentation (HEALY & POLAR Cruise Planning
Guides)
AWS
2002 Cruise plans as samples of Coast Guard forms (doc & pdf files)
Blank cruise
planning forms (Word files)
Continuous collection of underway data
SeaBeam
(presentation provided by Margo Edwards)
ADCP
Met
sensors
Thermosalinograph
Others?
Hero(s) for data collection and quality
Radiation use policies and procedures
ROV/AUV operations from icebreakers
Science logistics in away ports, loading, embarking, disembarking
Berthing arrangements
Vans (loading, services provided, number supported)
Previous issues (update as
needed)
Status of training videos (mooring video and AMORE videos)
Helicopter operations concurrent with other science operations
8. AICC business and Other issues
Quality of life issues for crew
- scheduling impacts
Report of AICC Recommendations
Action
items from science testing reports
Recommendations
from PCAs & debriefs
Long range plans for POLAR class replacement
Alaska Region Research Vessel
Other Arctic resources (Canadian icebreaker,
GLACIER society)
Arctic
Instrumentation Workshop
AICC membership
Departing
members
New
members
Future
needs
AICC Communications (email lists, etc.)
Future Meetings - dates, venue, agenda
AGU Town Hall meeting - December 6, 2002 - San Francisco, Ca.
Winter meeting - January, 2003 - Seattle, Wa.
Fall
2003 meeting (move later to include shipboard personnel)