June 11, 2010

Meeting Agenda

Scientific Committee for Oceanographic Aircraft Research (SCOAR)

June 22 and 23, 2010

CIRPAS Facility, Marina, CA

A copy of this agenda is available at <201006scoag.pdf>

 

Day 1, 22 June 2010

 

8:30 to 9:00 - Welcome and Introduction

·        Welcome by SCOAR Chair and UNOLS – DeSilva and Schwartz

·        Introduction of participants, incl. new SCOAR members

·        Remarks by CIRPAS Director, Bob Bluth

·        Accept minutes of the June 2009 tele-meeting http://www.unols.org/meetings/2009/200906sco/200906scomi.pdf

·        Review Agenda for this meeting

 

9:00 to 10:30 – Agency Representatives, UNOLS, and CIRPAS Reports

·        UNOLS report –DeSilva

·        CIRPAS report - Bob Bluth and/or Haf Jonsson

·        NSF - ?

·        ONR – Mike Prince

·        NOAA - ?

·        NASA/ICCAGRA - ?

 

10:30 to 10:45 - Break

 

10:45 to 12:00 – Review of recent Activities

·        2nd Annual Alaska UAS Interest Group Conference, UAF, Sept. 2009 - Hartz

·        ICCAGRA Meeting, Tampa, Nov. 2009 and April 2010

·        Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, Feb. 2010 – McGillivary and Schwartz

 

12:00 to 1:30 – Lunch

 

1:30 to 2:30 – Tour of CIRPAS Facilities.

 

2:30 to 5:00 – Member and Guest Presentations and Discussion

·        (Suggestions for topics and speakers.)

·        Update and issues for Remotely Piloted Air Vehicles (RPAVs)

·        SCOAR Coordination with Interagency Coordinating Committee for Airborne Geosciences Research and Applications (ICCAGRA) – future plans?

 

6:30 PM – Group dinner at restaurant (location to be announced.)

 

 

SCOAR Meeting, Day 2 - 23 June 2010

 

08:30 to 10:30 - Future Business and Direction for SCOAR

·        Input from attendees about the effective operation of SCOAR for the ocean sciences community and for UNOLS

·        Letter to the community for an interim and long-range assessment of aircraft (and satellite?) remote-sensing needs

·        Requirements and development of instrumentation and the way to seek community input

·        Establishment of a web-based “clearing house” for listing ongoing and future UAS/Aircraft projects across the community.

·        Revitalization of the Small Environmental Research Aircraft (SERA) effort – Update?

 

10:30 to 10:45 – Break

 

10:45 to 12:00 – Continue Discussion:  Future Direction of SCOAR

·        Outreach within the community:  Future Town Hall Meetings or airborne science sessions at science meetings

·        The Committee’s role in encouraging new technologies and platforms

o       SCOAR “sponsoring” a UAV demo from a UNOLS ship

·        Working with the agencies and FAA on airspace access issues

·        JSOST-Facilities Task Force on Unmanned Systems (TFUS) - The purpose of the TFUS is to advise, assist, and make recommendations to the JSOST-Facilities on policies, procedures, and plans relating to unmanned systems uses, upgrades, and investments.   The scope of the TFUS includes: Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV), Gliders, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), Unmanned Surface Vessels (USV) and Lagrangian Platforms.  Discussion – Should there be coordination between SCOAR and TFUS?

·        UNOLS Charter Review – The UNOLS Charter requires re-adoption every three years.  SCOAR is asked to review Annex VIII of the Charter which is the committee’s terms of reference.  http://www.unols.org/info/ucharter.html#annexVIII

·        Action item list and assignment – SCOAR

·        SCOAR Membership – Review the current SCOAR membership and identify openings. – Dan Schwartz

·        Next meeting, dates and location

 

 

12:00 - Adjourn