2018 INMARTECH Presentations

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INMARTECH Day 1: Tuesday October 16, 2018

• Featured Presentation: Measuring Earth's Magnetic Field at Sea - Maurice Tivey (WHOI)
• Technical Challenges and Solutions Session
• Technical Breakouts, Skillset Sessions and Trainings
  • Sensors and Observing Systems
    • "Hands-Free" CTD Water Sampling - Edwin Keijzer (NIOZ)
    • Implementation of Automatic Underway Measurement System ("Ferrybox") on Research Vessels - Brieuc Crenan (IFREMER)
    • Development of an Autonomous Solar Tracking Measurement Platform for Offshore Use - Dieter Vansteenwegen (VLIZ)
    • Enhancing CTD and Multiparameter Water Column Data Collection with Moving Vessel Profiler - James Walton (AML Oceanographic)
    • Oceanographic Data Facility 36 Position Rosette Improvements for Repeat Hydrography  - Susan Becker (SIO)
    • Seabed Mining: Field Testing of a Nodule Mining Crawler - Marck Smit (NIOZ)
    • Sensor Calibration Tracking - Felix Bruce (USAP)
    • Maintain and Expand Your Seafloor Observatory by Installing a Sea Floor Resident AUV/ROV System - Chris Roper (Saab North America)
  • Acoustics and Camera Systems
    • High-Rate Underwater Acoustic Communication Systems for Image Transission with a Manned Submersible SHINKAI6500 - Mitsuyasu Deguchi (JAMSTEC)
    • LED Strobes - The Challenges of Getting High Power at a Fast Recharge Rate - Jeff Cordell (CSIRO)
    • Practical Impacts of Sonardyne CASIUS Calibration on USBL Performance - Ian Vaughn (WHOI)
    • Optimizing performance of a long range Ultra Short Baseline tracking and telemetry systems - Geraint West (Sonardyne International Ltd.)
    • Presentation of Kongsberg's EM304 Results Onboard RV Thalassa - Brieuc Crenan (IFREMER)
    • High Resolution Deep-Sea Imaging and Camera - Guided Sampling Using EPO-Ocean Imaging Systems and WHOIMISO/SSSG Integrated Camera Systems - Dan Fornari (WHOI)
  • Skillset Session: Serial Data 1 - Tom Wilson (Stonybrook University)
  • Planning for Data Growth: A Community Discussion - Karen Stocks (SIO-R2R) and Suzanne O'Hara (LDEO- R2R)
  • Load Handling Systems and Tension Members
    • Multiple Platforms on a Fibre Optic Towed Cable - Aaron Tyndall (CSIRO)
    • Rapp Marine and Triplex - Full Lifecycle Resource for Oceanographic Load Handling Systems - Harsen Kocan (Rapp Marine)
    • USCG 46CFR189.35 vs Commercial Standards for Deck Machinery: A Comparison of their Impact on Design and Load Testing - Mike Einhorn (Einhorn Engineering, PLLC)
    • Community Discussion on Synethic 0.322 Alternatives for CTD Operations - Rick Trask (WHOI)
• Poster Session:
  • ​Genavir: An economic interest group (EIG) set up by 4 members (IFREMER, IRD, CNRS, and IRSTEA) - Erwan Nedelec (Genavir)

INMARTECH Day 2: Wednesday October 17, 2018

• Technical Breakouts, Skillset Sessions and Trainings
  • Ship/Shore Communications
    • HiSeasNet Engineering Review and Preview - Kevin Walsh (SIO)
    • LEO + GEO = Innovation Squared - Amy Kemp (Intelsat)
    • VSAT Communications Enabling Survey USV Operations Beyond Line of Site - Jorge Calvin (OmniAccess)
    • Ship-to-Shore Teleprescence Enabled Research and Education - Dwight Coleman (URI-GSO)
    • UNOLS Internet Use Policy - Ken Feldman (UW/SatNAG)
  • Serial Data 2 - Can you hear me now? - Toby Martin (UH)
  • Technical Demonstrations
    • OpenRVDAS - and Open Source Data Acquisition Architecture - David Pablo Cohn (OpenRVDAS)
    • UNOLS Cruise Planning Application - Erich Greubel (URI)
    • Using Kayaks for Low-Impact Coastal Research in Antarctica - Julian Race (MV Alucia)
  • Vehicles & All the Rest 
    • Technically Enhancing an Aging ROV - Robin Houthoofdt (VLIZ)
    • Scripps Institution of Oceanography Portable Multichannel Seismic System, Applications, and Recent Activities - Kolby Pedrie (SIO)
    • Evaluation of Accurate Heading Devices for use with Shipboard ADCP Systems - Julia Hummon (UH)
    • Routine Near-Surface Current and Shallow-Water Bathymetry Mapping Capabilities for Research Vessels with Science Marine X-Band Radars - Bjoern Lund (UMiami)
  • Training: pCO2 - Aleck Wang (WHOI) and Susan Becker (SIO)
  • Skillset Session: Timerservers, and why do we love them: why do we care about time? - Toby Martin (UH)
  • Industrial Hardware with Introductory PLC Programming - Joshua Eaton (WHOI)
    
    INMARTECH Day 3: Thursday October 18 2018
• ​Technical Breakouts, Skillset Sessions and Trainings (SeaCrest Beach Hotel)
  • Vessels & Operations 
    • Underway IFREMER Projects - R/V Thalassa Refit, Seismic Renewal and Polar Pod Project - Marc Nokin (IFREMER)
    • Managing the UNOLS Marine Technician Pool - Piers Chapman (Texas A&M University)
    • Feasibility of the Zero/V: A Zero-Emissions, Hydrogen Fuel Cell Coastal Research Vessel - Bruce Appelgate (SIO)
    • R/V Sally Ride Ship Improvements - Matthew Hirsch (SIO)
    • The Making of R/V 'Kronprins Hakon' - Jan Bremnes (IMR)
    • Greening the UNOLS Fleet - Bruce Corliss (URI - GSO)
    • CTD Deployments - Rod Palmer (CSIRO)
    • Conceptualizing an International Marine Technical Enhancement Exchange (IMTEE) - Ethan Roth (UAF)
  • Skillset Session: Intro to Oscilloscopes - Lane Abrams (WHOI)
  • Training: Catching Shipboard ADCP System Problems Early:  Visualization and Diagnosis - Julia Hummon (UH)
  • Data Management & IT
    • Deployment fo High Availability Computing Clusters on Research Vessels - Jon Meyer (UCSD/SIO)
    • KVM over LAN for Oceaongraphic Data Acquisition Systems - Daniel Yang (UCSD/SIO)
    • RCRV Data-Prescence: A Near Real-time Update - Jasmine Nahorniak (OSU)
    • Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R): Current Status and New Deployments - Suzanne O'Hara (R2R)
    • Supporting Research on-board CSIRO's RV Investigator - A Data Perspective - Steven Van Grass (CSIRO)
    • UHDAS: Shipboard ADCP Data Acquisition, Processing, Monitoring, and Stewardship - Julia Hummon (UH)
  • Skillset Session: Introduction to Electronics Design - Tom Wilson (Stonybrook)
  • Skillset Session: Tips for Installing & Support of a Debubbler - Alex Sneddon (Stonybrook)
  • Training Session: Exploring the Mysteries of EK80: A Practical Guide to Simrad Broadband Echosounders - Adone Lavery (WHOI) and Michael Jeck (NOAA Fisheries)
• Technical Breakouts, Skillset Sessions and Trainings (WHOI Quisset Campus)
  • Skillset Session: Winch Operations - Joshua Eaton (WHOI)
  • Skillset Session: Winch Troubleshooting - Joshua Eaton (WHOI)
  • Skillset Session: A Hands on Introduction to Ultra Short Baseline (USBL) Systems with Sondarynes's Ranger 2 Systems - Geraint West (Sonardyne) and Chris Hammersley (Sonardyne)
  • Skillset Session: Wire Terminations & Wire Testing - Matt Durham (SIO) and Rick Trask (WHOI)
• Featured Presentation: Science Under Sail: Research and Undergraduate Education on our Global Ocean - Georgie Zelenak and Jan Witting (Sea Education Assoc.)

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