Draft Agenda
Rev. 2/28/04

Scientific Committee for Oceanographic Aircraft Research (SCOAR)
April 06, 2005
NCAR RAF, Conference Room
Jeffco Airport
10802 Airport Court
Broomfield, CO 80021

8:00 to 8:30 - Coffee, Continental Breakfast

8:30 to 9:00 - Welcome and Introduction

• Welcome by SCOAR Chair and UNOLS Executive Secretary
• Introduction of participants, incl. new SCOAR member Dick Zimmerman
• Remarks by RAF Director, Jeff Stith
• Accept minutes of the November 2004 meeting
• Review Agenda for this meeting

9:00 to 10:30 - Agency and CIRPAS Reports

• UNOLS report - Mike Prince
• CIRPAS report - Bob Bluth and/or Haf Jonsson
• Overviews from federal agency representatives

o NSF - Jim Huning
o ONR - John Freitag
o NOAA - Beth White and/or Jim McFadden
o NASA/ICCAGRA - Cheryl Yuhas

10:30 to 11:00 - Break

11:00 to 12:00 - Tour of RAF

12:00 to 1:00 - Lunch

1:00 to 2:30 - SCOAR Activity Reports and Discussion

• Letter to the community about the need for a long-range assessment of aircraft/satellite requirements and development of instrumentation through the SBIR program - Bane
• Safety standards - Flagg
• Schedule info on SCOAR website – Prince
• Request form changes – Prince/Jonsson

2:30 to 2:45 - Break

2:45 to 4:30 - SCOAR Goals and Objectives

Open discussion about what SCOAR should be doing, in a broad sense, to enhance aircraft oceanography. The EOS and OCEANOGRAPHY articles had that sense to them, in that we were able to communicate to the general community about our committee and some of its activities and goals. What else should we be shooting for as a committee? We are entering our third year, and it may be a good time to review and contemplate who we are and what we are doing.

4:30 to 5:00 - Future Business

• Action item list and assignment - SCOAR
• Next meeting - SCOAR

5:00 - Adjourn