Directions: http://shipsked.ucsd.edu/marfac/direction/
08:00 Continental
Breakfast
08:30 Introductions,
overview of meeting agenda - Steve Holbrook, MLSOC Chair
08:45 Current
Status and Challenges
▪ LDEO perspective - Mike Purdy,
Paul Ljunggren and Al Walsh
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M.G. Langseth conversion status and major remaining items
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M.G. Langseth operations and maintenance issues
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Technical support and personnel issues
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Schedule overview and planned maintenance periods
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Issues to be addressed by MLSOC
▪ NSF perspective - Jim Holik,
Linda Goad and Bill Lang
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Budget, Permitting, technical support and Scheduling issues
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Issues to be addressed by MLSOC
▪ MLSOC perspective - Steve
Holbrook
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Overview of first cruises - successes and significance of data collection capabilities
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Identify key areas of concern
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List of recommendations from first cruise
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Recommendations_MGL0804_13March08.doc
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Dolan recommendations
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Finishing 3-D shakedown vs full maintenance period
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Areas of concern and agenda items from MLSOC Committee members
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Role of MLSOC going forward and key agenda items for committee
11:30 Lunch
12:30 Visit
M.G. Langseth at MARFAC
▪ Familiarize MLSOC and NSF
with current condition of the vessel and science outfitting
▪ Identify major work items
for near term
▪ Identify longer term improvement
items
14:30 Key Issues
▪ Conversion and Repair Work
Items
▪ Instrumentation and equipment
▪ Habitability
- accommodations
- leisure space
16:00 Personnel
and Technical Support
▪ Key personnel and plans for
recruitment/retention
▪ Strategy for supporting next
year's cruises
▪ Recommendations for standard
technical staffing
▪ Provide input on support
to be provided ashore/online and onboard for data acquisition planning, collection
and processing
▪ Organization/staffing of
OMO
▪ Plans for training for technical
staff
▪ Plans for review/promotion
pathways of technical staff
17:00 MLSOC
Executive Session (non-LDEO members)
08:00 Continental
Breakfast
08:30 Shakedown & Calibration cruises
▪ Results and need for followup
▪ Formal reports and public information
09:30 Scheduling
▪ Ability to conduct the 3-D
cruise for Mutter in June
▪ Adequate Maintenance periods
▪ Plans for 2009 and beyond
11:00 Equipment to be requested in upcoming equipment
proposals
▪ Status and plans for hardware
and software for shipboard seismic processing by PI's
▪ LDEO plans
▪ MLSOC input and recommendations
12:30 MMO Issues
▪
Tower/exhaust
▪ Recommendations for future
PI's
▪ Clarity of IHA
▪ Legal status of Biological
Opinion
13:30 MLSOC Outreach and Community Input to MLSOC
▪ Establishment of web forum
▪ Procedures and policies for
PI/Chief Sci feedback/debrief's
▪ Determine efforts needed
to get community input and to define MLSOC ombudsman role
▪ EOS Article
14:30 Miscellany
▪ Streamer length for 2D --
8 km max? Under what conditions?
▪ Opening up MGL to non-NSF
use -- strategies?
▪ Work boat
▪ Guns/IO consultant for Digishot
15:30 Future plans for MLSOC action items and activities
▪ Compile, review and create
report of MLSOC prioritized recommendations and action items
▪ Establish a system of codified
Recommendations from MLSOC to LDEO
▪ Establishment of subcommittees
-- any needed? (e.g., Data Flow;
Continuing Issues)
▪ Accept minutes of December
meeting
▪ Dates and location for next
meeting
▪ Plans for community outreach
or town hall meetings
▪ Review of membership status