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There's lots of things to do and places to visit when you're in Norfolk. Click HERE to see a pdf list of activities.
0800 Registration, Coffee and Pastries
0830 Welcoming Remarks
• Call the Meeting: Pete Zerr, Interim Chairman - RVOC
• Dr. Richard Zimmerman, Chair- Dept of Ocean, Earth, & Atmos. Sciences
• Billy Giocondo, Marine Superintendent, Old Dominion University
0850 Guest Scientist presentation – Professor
Greg Cutter on the GEOTRACES Project.
0915 OLD BUSINESS
• Chair & Vice-Chair Election Results
• Minutes of 2007 Meeting (See: http://www.unols.org/meetings/2007/200704rvo/200704rvomi.html)
0925 Group Purchase updates for 2007 Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment items:
• Safety Equipment by HBOI - Tim Askew
• Voyage Data recorders – Al Suchy
• 500 & 750 mm blocks – Steve Rabalais
• Jasons’ Cradles & FLIR thermal imagers - Pete Zerr
• SarFinder MOB’s and why NOT to buy them – Joe Malbrough
1000 Break
NEW BUSINESS
1015 Committee and Liaison Reports (10 minute limit)
• UNOLS – Mike Prince, Executive Secretary
• Safety Committee & RVSS – Tom Althouse
• Ship Scheduling Committee – Stan Winslow
• FIC – Al Suchy
• DESSC – Mike Prince
• RHOV – Al Suchy
• RVTEC – Bill Martin
• AICC – Dan Schwartz
• SCOAR – Mike Prince
• MLSOC – Paul Ljunggren
1115 Agency Reports - Part 1
• State Department – Liz Tirpak
1130 Lunch
1230 Special Reports (presentations will be limited to 10 minutes each)
• Safety Statistics and MAS/Medaire – Mike Prince
o Detelina Trendafilova from Medaire will be available to answer questions
• Representatives from Foreign Countries
o NURC – (NATO Undersea Research Centre). – Ian Sage
o NERC (Natural Environmental Research Council) Update – Robin Plumley
- ISOM Manning Survey - Robin, Matt and Mike
• Research Vessel Updates
o Ocean Class Design Effort – Bob Houtman
o Alaska Region Research Vessel (ARRV) – Dan Oliver, Seward Marine Center
o Marcus Langseth update – Paul Ljunggren
o Construction Progress on UMCES vessel http://www.umces.edu/vessel/ - Bruce Cornwall
o Regional Class R/V Design Effort – Matt Hawkins
• Post Cruise Assessments and PCA results – Mike Prince
• Van Pool (East Coast – Steve Rabalais, West Coast – Pete Zerr)
• Close encounters with a granite rock. What went wrong, what went right? – Chris Grech (MBARI)
1445 Break
1500 Insurance and Admiralty Law Update and ISOM R/V Code of Conduct- Dennis Nixon
1700 Adjourn
0800 Coffee and Pastries
0830 Guest Speaker: Fred Campbell & Dave Johnson, 3PS, Inc. Load Moment Indicators, wire monitoring systems, and winch controls.
0915 Al Suchy will also provide group purchase update for winch monitoring at this time.
0930 Break
1000 Guest Speaker: Markey Machinery – Auto Render & Recovery - John Davis
1045 Guest Speaker: Rapp-Hydema - Winches - Tor Andersen and John Hotaling
1130 Lunch
1230 Guest Speaker: Dyncon – James Stasny & Wesley Keepers
1315
• SWL Estimator spreadsheet - Rich Findley
• "Chapter 7 - Cable and Winch Documentation" from the UNOLS Winch and Wire Handbook, Third Edition - Rich Findley
1345 2007 Wire Break Test Results, update on the purchase
of electromagnetic non destructive testing equipment – Rick Trask
1415 R/V SHARP winches - Steve Rabalais
1430 Agency Reports - Part II
• NSF – Matt Hawkins
• ONR & IWG-F (ex-FOFC) – Bob Houtman - Also, Use of the US Navy Supervisor of Salvage's pollution response and salvage services for casualties involving Federally owned vessels
• NOAA – Status report on Okeanus & NMFS Fisheries Vessels- Captain Emily Christman, NMAO Marine Operations Center
• USCG – Jonathan Berkson
1500 Break
1515 Continuation of Special Reports and/or Research Vessel Updates
1700 Adjourn
0800 Coffee and Pastries
0830
• Canadian Shipping Act- 2001 (Response plans, etc.) – Daniel Schwartz
• Transportation Workers Identification Credentials (TWIC) update – Mike Prince
• Cadet & Internship Policy – Daniel Schwartz
0915 Crew and technician retention effort (brainstorming and prioritization of actual actions) Stewart Lamerdin & Mike Prince
0945 Environmental section:
• Straight scoop about new California laws and regulations. – Tom Althouse
• Straight scoop about East Coast laws and regulations. – Tom Althouse or ?
• No Discharge Zones, “R/V Code of Conduct”, & “Green Ship” criteria – Mike Prince
1000 Break
1015 Continue Environmental section
1030 Round Table Discussion (Marine Superintendents only)
• ISM
• OSRP
• Medical Services Contract
• Sexual Harassment Training
• Safety Committee actions – RVSS revision approval
• Safe Working Loads
• Small boat group (vessels less than 100 feet) round table
• Other items to be added as needed
1130 Lunch
1230 Business Meeting
• Assignments to Committees
• Review of Action Items Pending
• Suggestion for 2009 Agenda
• Nominations and vote on 2009 meeting location
1400 Adjourn