Annual Meeting - Day 1
1300 Introduction and Welcome Vernon Asper, UNOLS
Chair, will call the meeting to order.
·
Participant introductions.
·
Moment of silence in remembrance of Dr. John
Diebold
·
UNOLS Vessel Operations in response to the Gulf
of Mexico Oil Spill (Vernon Asper)
1320 Federal Agency Reports - Information from Federal
Agencies (NSF, ONR, NRL, Oceanographer of the Navy, NOAA, USCG, USGS, BOEMRE,
DOS and DOE) on budgets, 2010 activities, and forecasts for 2011 and beyond.
1350 Fleet Operations in 2010 and Recommendations
for 2011:
·
Summary
of 2010 operations and the 2011 scheduling process (Stan Winslow, SSC)
·
Summary
of Agency Recommendations for 2011 Fleet Operations (Bob Houtman/Jon Alberts)
1415 Facility Renewal Activities:
·
Ocean Class
Acquisition Update Mike
Prince, Chris MacDonald, and Caitlin
Jarecki
·
Regional Class
Acquisition Status Bob
Houtman
·
Alaska Region
Research Vessel, R/V Sikuliaq,
Construction Status Terry Whitledge
1445 Break
1500 Keynote
Address:
~ 3:00 PM ~
Keynote Address
Dr. David O.
Conover
Director, Division of Ocean
Sciences, NSF
NSF Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Eruption
1545 Facility Renewal Activities (continued):
·
Ocean
Observatories Initiative Jean McGovern (10 min)
·
Replacement
Human Occupied Vehicle Project Brian Midson (5 min)
1600 DEep Submergence Science Committee (DESSC)
Peter
Girguis, DESSC Chair, will report on DESSC activities and plans for their fall
meeting in December.
1610 Consortium for Ocean Leadership Bob Gagosian will
provide an update on activities.
1620
Review of UNOLS Membership Ballot Measures:
Ballots were distributed to UNOLS
Representatives by mail in early September. Annette DeSilva
·
UNOLS Council Elections: Elections for the following UNOLS Council positions
for Chair-Elect (2 year term), Non-Operator Representative (3 year term), and At-Large
Representative (3 year term) will be held.
The slate of nominees can be viewed at: <http://www.unols.org/meetings/2010/201010anu/Slate2010.html>.
·
Establishment of a new UNOLS Standing
Committee The Ocean
Observing Science Committee (OOSC). The
proposed terms of reference for the OOSC are available at <http://www.unols.org/meetings/2010/201010anu/OOSC_Terms.pdf>.
·
UNOLS Charter Revisions and Re-Adoption
Proposed revisions to the
UNOLS Charter are available at <http://www.unols.org/meetings/2010/201010anu/CharterRevision2010.html>
.
1635 Greening the UNOLS Fleet An update on activities
and future plans. Bruce Corliss
1700 Adjourn
Day 1
An evening
reception hosted by UNOLS will follow immediately afterward.
Annual
Meeting Day 2
0800 Coffee
and Pastries
0830 Call Day-2 of the Meeting to Order: Vernon Asper, UNOLS Chair.
0835 Marine Technician Recruitment and Retention Pilot Program
An update on the UNOLS pilot program status. Alice Doyle and Jim Holik
0845 Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) An update on the project activities and plans. Vicki
Ferrini (LDEO)
0900 NSF Solicitation for USCGC Healy Ship Support Renee Crain
0910 Interagency
Working Group on Facilities Update on the 2009 IWG-F activities and plans
for 2010 Bob Winokur
0925 2010/2011
UNOLS Goals and Priorities Vernon Asper will present the 2010/2011 UNOLS Goals
and Priorities as established by the UNOLS Council.
0935 UNOLS Evaluation of Decline in Ship Time
Requests Annette DeSilva
0950 UNOLS Year in Review - A summary of UNOLS
activities in 2010 (that have not already been reported)
·
3rd
Large Facility Workshop Jon Alberts
·
Investigate the feasibility of a more flexible UNOLS
Jon Alberts
·
Antarctic
Research Vessels Coordination and UNOLS Jon Alberts
·
Post Cruise Assessment
Report (PCAR) Subcommittee Jon Alberts
·
Gender Climate at Sea Voluntary on-line training effort Jon Alberts
·
UNOLS
Outreach/Mentoring Initiatives Annette DeSilva
1020 Morning Break
1035 COMMITTEE REPORTS Vernon Asper will introduce
the UNOLS Committee Chairs who will report on their activities.
·
Ship
Scheduling Committee (SSC) Stan Winslow, SSC Chair, will review
any ship-scheduling activities from the past year that have not already been
reported.
·
Research
Vessel Operators' Committee (RVOC) Joe Malbrough, RVOC Chair-Elect, will review the highlights of the 2010 RVOC
meeting, Committee activities over the past year, and plans for the 2011
meeting.
·
Research
Vessel Technical Enhancement Committee (RVTEC) Rich Findley, RVTEC Chair, will report on RVTEC activities in 2010 and plans for the RVTEC
Annual Meeting to be hosted by the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Science.
·
Arctic
Icebreaker Coordinating Committee (AICC) AICC activities in 2010
will be reported by Robin Muench (AICC Chair) including an update on science
operations for Healy and the Polar Class Icebreakers in 2010 and planned
for 2011.
·
Marcus
Langseth Science Oversight Committee (MLSOC) Jon Alberts will
provide an update on R/V Langseth operations
and plans for the MLSOC fall meetings.
·
Scientific
Committee for Oceanographic Aircraft Research (SCOAR) Daniel Schwartz (SCOAR
Chair) will report on the committees June meeting and future activities.
1155 UNOLS Reports Jon Alberts
·
Recognition of
departing Council and Committee members.
·
UNOLS Appointments to Committees: The UNOLS Chair will announce new appointments to the standing committees.
·
UNOLS Dues Accounting
·
UNOLS Calendar and activities at winter
conferences
1210 Meeting
participants will have the opportunity to raise additional issues.
1230 Adjourn