Meeting Minutes
UNOLS FLEET IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE
MEETING
The National Science
Foundation
Wednesday PM, October 14,
2009 (following the Annual Meeting) – Stafford II - Room 555
Thursday 8:30 am, October 15, 2009 – NSF Stafford I - Room 920
Arlington,
VA 22230
Meeting Presentations
·
Accept the minutes of the March 2009 FIC Meeting
·
Review FIC
Action/Task List from the March meeting
1345 Opportunity for Agency Comments
1400 Fleet Acquisition Efforts (full
presentations on vessel acquisition efforts are included on the Annual Meeting
agenda on October 13-14). Any issues
that require FIC attention should be reported.
·
ARRV – Update and comparison of the ARRV
specification with the UNOLS Ocean Class SMRs - Marc Willis
·
Regional Class – NSF
·
Ocean Class – Update and comparison of the Ocean
Class specifications with the UNOLS Ocean Class SMRs – Mike Prince / Chris
MacDonald
·
Science Sea
Trials – What are the
plans for science sea trials for the new vessels? Will there be FIC/community involvement?
1445 Break
1500
Load Handling Systems:
·
Kilo Moana Update
- Status report on the
acquisition of the new Load Handling System for Kilo Moana. Lessons
learned. (Sandy Shor)
·
Acquisition status of
handling system for ARRV - Lessons learned. (Marc Willis)
1520 WHOI Long-Coring System: Dave Hebert
·
User
Feedback from Knorr cruise (Mar 25 –
Apr 6, 2009)
·
Schedule
of future long core operations
·
Discuss
future user debrief process
1540 Hugh
R. Sharp User Debriefs: Dave
Hebert
·
Review draft set
of standard user debrief questions that will evaluate the new technologies of
the ship
·
Review the Sharp schedule for candidate cruises
1600 Ocean Observatory Projections -Status report on implementation
plans (OOI Office – Susan Banahan and Tim Cowles)
1620 FIC Membership Changes and Nominations in 2009 – Dave Hebert
1640 Other business:
·
Weatherbird II Status – Al Hine
1700
Adjourn
Day 1 FIC Meeting
Day 2:
Thursday, October 15, 2009 – NSF Stafford I - Room 920
0800 Coffee
and Pastries
0830 Call Day-2 of the FIC Meeting to Order: Dave Hebert, FIC Chair.
0840 SMR Update and Input to
Ocean Class Research Vessel RFP Development: (Dave
Hebert)
·
Review project tasking <http://www.unols.org/committees/fic/smr/update08/index.html>
·
Status report and next steps
0910 Fleet
Improvement Plan (FIP): (Dave Hebert)
·
Follow up on FIP recommendations
·
Appendix
on Ocean Acoustics
0930 FIC Roadmap for the Future – What future activities should FIC
take on? This will be a brainstorming
session. Some areas to consider:
·
Projected
service life end dates:
o
Agency
representatives are evaluating ship conditions during inspections.
o
Some
vessels are at or approaching their projected end of service life
·
OOI
facility projections (geographic regions, vessel classes, ship days)
·
The
composition of the Fleet is changing – ships are being removed from service,
new ships are planned.
·
Recommendations
from the OSB study on the Evolution of the Research Fleet
·
Large
shared-use facilities with designated support platforms (ex. Long Core Facility)
·
Greening
the Fleet
·
No
new vessel acquisitions are planned during the period 2015-2020 – Who and how
do we fund new Global Class vessels
·
Are
there any tasks that the Agency Representatives would like the FIC to take on?
·
Are
there any Council tasks for FIC?
A mid morning break is planned for 1030.
1130 Opportunity for Additional Reports
1150 Review FIC Action Items and Assignments (Dave
Hebert)
1200 Meeting
Adjourns