Meeting Minutes
The UNOLS Research Vessel Technical Enhancement Committee (RVTEC)
Meeting
October 28-30, 2008
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida
Additional presentations and the meeting
minutes will be posted as soon as they become available
Action
Items
RVTEC
Chair Election – Send
Chair nomination of Rich Findley to Vernon Asper. (UNOLS Office) - Status:
complete
Research Vessel Safety Standards:
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“Volunteers” review chapter assignments
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Provide input to Dale by Nov 7th.
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Dale will compile feedback and circulate to RVTEC
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RVTEC Chair will submit to Mike Prince
Post Cruise Assessment Report
Subcommittee – Formalize a recommendation to the UNOLS Office for the PCAR
committee to regroup. The RVTEC rep to
the committee (Mary-Lynn Dickson) will bring forward the RVTEC concerns (this
will come from the newly appointed RVTEC Chair).
RVTEC
Charter Review http://www.unols.org/info/ucharter.html#annexV:
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RVTEC should review Annex V.
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Send comments to the UNOLS Office
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Annette will compile all comments and recirculate
to RVTEC.
Education
Subcommittee – Aubri Steele has agreed to chair this committee. Tasks include:
- Compile and collect procedural
manuals/video clips for instrumentation/equipment (eg.
Drilling, H2O, etc).
- Post/link the manuals on a
web site
- Announce training opportunities
(all RVTEC members should do this)
- Coordinate technical presention/guest
speaker for RVTEC Annual meeting
Solicit
RVTEC Nominations to Committees and Subcommittees - Action for Rich
Findley
- RVOC (RVTEC liaison)
- Safety Committee
- PCAR Subcommittee – Mary-Lynn plans to step down next year. Dave Fisichella
is interested for nomination next year.
Ocean
Class Research Vessel Acquisition – UNOLS Rep: RVTEC Chair will solicit
RVTEC nominations for this position. RVTEC Chair will draft a recommendation
to ONR that the individual nominated by RVTEC serve as the OCRV UNOLS rep and
that the position should be compensated. Include a statement that single person
representation is insufficient and should be expanded.
RF Frequency Spectrum Management
Committee -
Richard Perry
will continue to be the point of contact. Disband
the committee.
HiSeasNet – RVTEC members should contact Steve Foley
if interested in training.
Pilot Program – Fleet
Broadband – WHOI will prepare
a report on the Fleet Broadband installation on Oceanus. (Al Suchy)
Defined Levels of Technical
Services – Encourage Tech Managers to enter http://unolsweb.cms.udel.edu/STRS/Public/diu_login.aspx
. The UNOLS Office is willing to assist.
Annette will send reminders.
RVTEC
and Tech Manager Email Lists:
- Initial Action – Office will send lists to Rich Findley for
review (done)
- Remove vendors
- Vet list through Tech managers
- Establish and clearly articulate email list policy (Rich)
Winch/Wire
Monitoring System: Group development effort
• Rich will send
a letter to RVOC stating that RVTEC is addressing this issue in order to comply
with the RVSS Safety Standards.
• Rich will put a call out for those interested and form a working group.
• Rich will coordinate and deal with funding. – Suggested that this
be a focus of the Wire Workshop planned for early 2009.
Gravimeter Pool – Dan Fornari is preparing written
guidance regarding access and use of the gravimeters.
The UNOLS Office will circulate the document when available.
Any additional action can be determined once the guidance document has
been reviewed.
Shared Support
for Specialty Systems – Determine if there are systems that would benefit
by pooling resources for maintaining, calibrating, processing, etc.
Crew and Marine
Technician Retention and Hiring:
- Rich will seek comments/endorsement from the Tech Managers
for Stewart’s letter to Vernon Asper (done)
- Rich will send RVTEC endorsement of the letter to Vernon Asper
(done)
- Rich appointed Stewart Lamerdin as working group chair. (done)
- Stewart will report back on the recommendation of the working
group meeting in late 2008/early 2009.