From: Ryan, John [ryjo@mbari.org] Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 11:16 AM To: Haddock, Steven; marcia@wave.mbari.org; jgb@wave.mbari.org; hthomas@wave.mbari.org; ryjo@wave.mbari.org; keith@wave.mbari.org; etst@wave.mbari.org; sib@wave.mbari.org; kiwi@wave.mbari.org; gashler@wave.mbari.org; johnson@wave.mbari.org; tervalon@wave.mbari.org; chfr@wave.mbari.org; Christy Herren Subject: RE: SPOKES - August cruise information >>I assume that John will be able to represent his own goals more >>articulately than I can. Why is AUV support of the August cruise important and worth the effort from my perspective? 1) Drawing on the strengths of the AUV platform is an essential element of this year's internal projects for both of MBARI's newest scientists. 2) This field effort is an important opportunity to build collaborations within and outside MBARI. Steve noted the breadth of collaborations. For my 2002 MBARI project focus on studying plankton layers, collaborations are both internal (with Chris, Steve and Francisco) and external (Mary Silver and Margaret McManus at UCSC). 3) Using AUVs during the August cruise will augment MBARI investment in instrumentation and its application by coinciding with the Scholin Lab's ESP deployment. This promising combination of technologies was begun fortuitously during MUSE and would be continued purposefully this August. 4) We will be contributing to development of AUVs as an observatory platform overall. These field efforts will test hardware and software developments central to advancing Dorado as a versatile platform by integrating cutting-edge instrument suites and testing survey behaviors that push the limits of what we have yet been able to resolve in this complex environment in which we are constructing an observatory. John -----Original Message----- From: Steven Haddock [mailto:haddock@mbari.org] Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 10:09 PM To: marcia@wave.mbari.org; jgb@wave.mbari.org; hthomas@wave.mbari.org; ryjo@wave.mbari.org; keith@wave.mbari.org; etst@wave.mbari.org; sib@wave.mbari.org; kiwi@wave.mbari.org; gashler@wave.mbari.org; johnson@wave.mbari.org; tervalon@wave.mbari.org; chfr@wave.mbari.org; Christy Herren Subject: SPOKES - August cruise information I have been travelling and at sea too much recently, and have fallen a little bit behind in the latest developments on the AUVs. I would like to take this chance to let everyone know why the cruise at the end of August is important for me, MBARI, and our collaborators. I assume that John will be able to represent his own goals more articulately than I can. I had a longer version of this, but I know we are all busy so I will try to briefly outline some points which I think are relevant. * Understanding mechanisms of plankton blooms and succession requires sampling over a large portion of the Bay. * Bioluminescence is one of the few indicators which can provide an assessment of secondary production (zooplankton and heterotrophs). * This is my only ship time to support my field research between now and August 2003 (ship time requests had to be submitted more than a year and a half ago) * Outside influences should not drive MBARI's science focus, but that is not the case here. Internal research interests have been supplemented by external funds, which have made the extended night operations (and indeed 24-hour operations) possible. These could not be done by a contingent of small boats, and I intend to live up to the trust that has been given to me. * I have just returned from Santa Barbara, where I picked up the bathyphotometer for use on the AUV. It is the same instrument that was successfully deployed during MUSE, so the hardware and software should take very little engineering. * MUSE provided a valuable but limited dataset for incorporation into models. * Sea trials (collecting data at the same time) are a valuable way to evaluate AUV performance. * To have a successful collaboration in August 2003, we will need a base data set. This allows evaluation of our SPOKES sampling plan, and gives our collaborators information to develop their data-handling infrastructure. * In addition to John Ryan and myself, collaborators who will be participating in the field work this August, or who are awaiting the data, include: 1. Margaret McManus UCSC 2. Van Holliday Tracor Applied Sciences 3. Percy Donaghay URI 4. Mark Moline Cal Poly SLO 5. Igor Shulman Univ. So. Miss. 6. Jeff Paduan NPS 7. Leslie Rosenfeld NPS 8. Dennis McGillicuddy Woods Hole 9. James Case UCSB 10. Sonke Johnsen Duke University 11. Mary Silver UCSC * A related DURIP award (whose goals also relate to MOOS) has been funded. Its program is develop a network of small moored instruments along the California coast. Associated investigators are: James F. Case, MSI, UCSB Mark Brzezinski, EEMB, UCSB Barbara Fletcher, SPAWARS, San Diego Steven Gaines, Director, MSI, UCSB Steven Haddock, MBARI William Hamner, UCLA Michael Latz, Scripps, CD Sally MacIntyre, EEMB, UCSB Mark Moline, Cal Poly SLO Douglas Neilson, Scripps, UCSD Dan Reed, MSI, UCSB David Seigel, UCSB Keith Stolzenbach, UCLA Libe Washburn, UCSB * Proposals have been submitted for the current funding cycle to incorporate data from this August into models which will feed back in the planning for the larger 2003 field experiments. These are just some of the reasons why I feel it is worthwhile to push for a complete operation this August. -Steve