Revised:
February 5, 2008
Tentative Agenda
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campus map at <usfmap.pdf>.
Please use the main entrance on the south end of the building.
A pdf of this agenda is available at <200802cncag.pdf>
Day 1 Thursday,
February 7th
0800 Coffee and
Pastries
0830 Call the
Meeting: Marcia McNutt, UNOLS Chair, will call the
meeting to order and provide an opportunity for introductions.
·
Accept the minutes of the October 2007 Council
Meeting.
0845 UNOLS 2008
Fleet schedules, estimated operation costs, and 2009 ship scheduling Mike Prince and Stan Winslow
0915 Agency
Reports Budgets, Personnel changes, and renewal efforts:
·
NSF Dolly Dieter
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Budget projections
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Personnel Changes
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Regional Class
Acquisition Status, Operator Selection, and Timeline
·
NOAA - Bill OClock
·
NAVY
-
Budget projections
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Ocean Class
Acquisition Process
0945 Fleet Improvement, Facility Design,
Construction, and Conversion Efforts
-
Summary
of FIC Meeting and Fleet Improvement Plan Dave Hebert
-
Marcus
Langseth Jim Cochran
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ARRV
Marc Willis
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Replacement HOV Status Dolly Dieter
1015 Break
1030 Interagency Working Group on Facilities
Future Initiatives (Bob Winokur)
1045 International
Cruise Information Database and Website
- POGO-CoML initiative to set up an International Cruise Information Database
and website (Maureen Conte and Mike Prince)
1100 2007/2008 UNOLS Goals and
Priorities
Develop strategies for implementing the
2007/2008 UNOLS Goals and Priorities <http://www.unols.org/info/issues.html>.
(Marcia McNutt)
·
Enlarge
the group of supporters for the UNOLS fleet (capitalization and operations).
·
Extend
planning horizon to meet future infrastructure needs.
·
Continuously
work to lower barriers to effective use of UNOLS ships.
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Americans with Disabilities Act (
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Harassment at
Sea Discussion
on UNOLS plans to address this issue and future actions. (Marcia McNutt)
This concludes the joint
meeting of the FIC and Council.
1230 Lunch
1330 Consortium
for Ocean Leadership Summary of
first meeting and items of interest to UNOLS (Marcia McNutt)
1345 Code of Conduct for Marine
Scientific Research Vessels Discussion
on UNOLS policy.
1415 Crew and Marine Technician Retention and
Hiring Issues Proposed strategies
for addressing these issues will be presented (Matt Hawkins and Bill Martin)
1515 Break
1530 Ad-hoc Committee on Data Management Best
Practices Status report of their
efforts.
1545 Request for Proposals to
Host the UNOLS Office - Discuss procedures for review of proposals and make
preliminary plans for a selection committee.
1615 UNOLS Dues
Accounting Consider raising
dues.
1630 Radio
Frequency Spectrum Management Status report of
survey efforts (Bill Martin)
1645 Safety
Standards for Human Occupied Vehicles Status report (Annette DeSilva)
1700 Adjourn
Day 1
Day 2, Friday,
February 8th:
0800
Coffee and Pastries
0830
Call the Meeting: Marcia McNutt, UNOLS Chair, will call Day 2
of the meeting to order.
0845 Committee Activities and Issues requiring Council
Attention: Committee Chairs will have an opportunity to raise any other issues requiring
Council attention. Written reports will be available in advance of the meeting:
<CommRpts_Feb08.pdf>
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FIC (Dave Hebert)
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AICC (Carin Ashjian)
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DESSC (Annette
DeSilva)
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RVOC (Matt Hawkins)
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RVTEC (Bill Martin)
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SCOAR (Mike Prince)
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SSC (Stan Winslow)
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MLSOC (Mike Prince)
1015 Break
1030 NAS Study on Ocean
Infrastructure Information on the status
and scope of effort. (Shirley Pomponi)
1100 Revisit Discussions or Actions from earlier
in the meeting
1130 Other Business:
·
Annual meeting:
-
Date
-
Keynote Speaker suggestions
·
Form Nominating Committee to review Council
membership and positions opening, and to recruit individuals to stand for
election.
·
Calendar of UNOLS meetings for 2008
1230
1300 Adjourn