Meeting

The next SCOAR Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, 13January at 1330-1500 Eastern time.

The agenda is posted below. 

This is an open meeting and we welcome anyone interseted in oceanographic aircraft research to attend!

Due to the concern about unwelcome participants (i.e. Zoom-bombers) participants are required to register for the meeting here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the email.

2021/2022 DeSSC Annual Community Meeting

Read-Ahead Documents

• Ocean Exploration Trust (OET) - ROV Update
• University of Hawaii - ROV Lu'ukai Update
• Schmidt Ocean Institute - ROV Subastian Update
• Pelagic Services - ROV Odysseus Update
• Canadian Scienfic Submersible Facility - ROV Ropos Update 
• UNOLS Report
• French Seabed Strategy

If you could not attend, you can view the meeting here.

2021 UNOLS Fall FIC Meeting

Please join us for the UNOLS Fall FIC Meeting. Meeting will be held at 4pm Eastern / 1pm Pacific.

Zoom Meeting information as follows:

Topic: UNOLS 2021 FIC Fall Meeting
Time: Nov 17, 2021 01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join Zoom Meeting
https://washington.zoom.us/j/95537000055

Meeting ID: 955 3700 0055

2021 UNOLS Fall Council Meeting

Please join us for the UNOLS Fall Council Meeting. Meeting will be held at 4pm Eastern / 1pm Pacific.

Zoom Login information:  

UNOLS Annual Meeting - UNOLS turns 50! 

Come join us for the UNOLS 2021 Annual meeting to hear updates on the year's operations. The Annual Meeting topics will be held over a series of 60-90min sessions on Mondays and Wednesdays at 4PM Eastern Time starting on 13 October. The dates are below:

• 13 October Wednesday - UNOLS Updates, Vessel Operations & Scheduling - Watch the video here.
• 18 October Monday - Agency Reports - Watch the video here.
• 20 October Wednesday - Facility Updates  (Pre-Meeting Read-Ahead)
• 25 October Monday - Outreach & SatComms (Pre-meeting Read-Ahead)
• 1 November Monday - Fleet Renewal  (Pre-meeting Read-Ahead)
• 3 November Wednesday - Instrumentation & Featured Speaker: Dr. Larry Mayer (Pre-meeting Read Ahead)
• 8 November Monday - Committee Reports
• 10 November Wednesday - Featured Speaker:  Dr. Kendall Moore/URI & UNOLS 50th Anniversary Celebration

The agenda is posted below.  We are excited to have two Featured Speakers this year:

Dr. Larry Mayer

Director of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire and Chair of the U.S. National Committee for the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.

Dr. Larry Mayer is a professor and first Director of the newly established School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering at the University of New Hampshire. He is also the Director of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping and the co-director of the NOAA/UNH Joint Hydrographic Center at the University of New Hampshire.

He received a Ph.D. from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in Marine Geophysics in 1979. After being selected as an astronaut candidate finalist for NASA's first class of mission specialists, Larry went on to a Post-Doc at the School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island where he worked on the early development of the Chirp Sonar and problems of deep-sea sediment transport and paleoceanography. In 2000 , Larry became the founding director of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire and the co-director of the NOAA/UNH Joint Hydrographic Center. Larry has participated in more than 90 cruises (over 75 months at sea!) during the last 35 years, and has been chief or co-chief scientist of numerous expeditions including two legs of the Ocean Drilling Program and ten mapping expeditions in the ice covered regions of the high Arctic.

He is the recipient of the Keen Medal for Marine Geology, an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Stockholm and the State Department's Superior Honor Award. He was a member of the President's Panel on Ocean Exploration, National Science Foundation's Advisory Committee for the Geosciences, and chaired two National Academy of Science Committees, one on national needs for coastal mapping and charting and one on the impact of the Deepwater Horizon Spill on ecosystem services in the Gulf of Mexico.

Dr. Mayer will be speaking on 3 November 2021. 

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Dr. Kendall Moore

Award-winning documentary filmmaker and a Professor in the departments of Journalism and Film Media at the University of Rhode Island.

Before joining the faculty at URI in 2003, she worked as a television journalist focusing on medical, health, race, and environmental issues.

Moore has produced numerous independent documentaries that have aired on PBS and in various film festivals including: Charm City (1996), Song in the Crisis (2004), Sovereign Nation/Sovereign Neighbor (2006), The Good Radical (2009), Sick Building (2014), Philosophy of the Encounter (fiction, 2016), and Jalen and Joanna: A Lead Paint Story (2017).

She has received several grants and awards for her work, including two Fulbright Scholar Awards: Tanzania (2001) and Jamaica (Specialist, 2004); The Rhode Island Film Fellowship for Outstanding Filmmaking (2007); and, the Metcalf Award for 2015. In 2016, she was commended by Crain's magazine as a professor of merit, in the field of journalism.

She serves on the boards of The Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting as well as The Story Board at Salve Regina University. She also enjoys mentoring women of color interested in documentary film production.

She earned her B.A. from Syracuse University in Latin American Studies and an M.A. in Media Studies and documentary film, from The New School for Social Research. Her PhD research, at the European Graduate School for Media and Communication, focuses on race, philosophy and aesthetics.

Her research focuses on Race, environment, health and gender.

Dr. Moore will speak on 10 November 21.  Title of Dr. Moore's presentation:  "There are Many Sides to Access"

SCOAR MEETING - 23 August 1PM Eastern

This is an open meeting and all are welcome to attend. 

Zoom information

https://washington.zoom.us/j/96349522698

Meeting ID: 963 4952 2698
Passcode: 906876
 

Meeting Agenda

CIRPAS Update - Anthony Bucholtz 

SCOAR Discussion

• SCOAR Meeting formats 
• How can SCOAR promote communication between the current airborne oceanographic researchers?
• How can SCOAR promote airborne oceanography in the science community (i.e., broadening the user base )
  • Town hall at Ocean Sciences?
  • UAS Workshops?
  • Sessions at Conferences? 
  • What else?
• Review of the UAS Handbook and UAS Policy (update according to any new FAA guidelines; reach out/discussion with RV Operators and other users of the Handbook)
• SCOAR webpage updates? 
• Outreach to RV Operators - making UASs more "the norm"
• Recruiting a new member
• Other discussion points for the group

Registration is closed.

Announcement

Event Website - Requires registration and login to view the site.

Meeting recordings are available on the UNOLS YouTube Channel

Please see the 2021 Virtual RVTEC playlist