MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

2012 MLSOC Meeting
Rice University
Houston, TX

June 20 - 21, 2012

A .pdf version of the agenda can be seen HERE

Wednesday-June 20, 2012

8:00-8:30        Coffee

8:30 -8:45       Welcome and Introductions

8:45-9:30        Agency Reports

NSF-  Jim Holik, Candace Major

ONR- Tim Schnoor

                        UNOLS Report- Jon Alberts                        

9:30-10:30        LDEO Operator’s Report

• Maintenance and Upgrades
• Long Coring System Update
• 2012 Year in Review
• 2013 Projected Schedule
• Vessel Home Port Plans                                             

10:30-10:45      Break

10:45- 12:00  MLSOC Report-

• Glossy Brochure, 10 + 2 Document- How will this tool be it be used
• Upcoming Data sets of interest
• SSSE/Ocean Instrumentation- MLSOC input & recommendations
• Committee Membership- Welcome new members, thank you to members rotating off. Call for nominations.
• One week training cruise on Langseth

12:00-1:00      Lunch, on your own

1:00- 2:00     Broadening MLSOC Outreach Efforts

• Engaging Young Scientists and Students at MLSOC Meeting at AGU: We need a plan for AGU in December 2012 
• UNOLS Speaker Series- Jon Alberts 

2:00-2:30      BOEM Draft G & G PEIS on Outer Continental Shelf- Bill Lang

2:30              Break

2:45              Julia Morgan, Chair of the GeoPrisms steering Committee

3:15              Preliminary Costa Rica 3D Data- Nathan Bangs

4:00              Begin discussion of “Elements of Success” from the Langseth brochure

• Proposal Process
• Advanced Planning Schedule

5:00          Adjourn- MSLOC Dinner

Thursday -June 21, 2012

8:00                 Coffee

8:30                 Continuation of discussion of “Elements of Success”        

• Open Access Community Programs
• Rapid data processing
• Training the next generation
• Improving the educational Footprint

                        Other issues of concern to the committee

12:00                Adjourn