From: Steven Haddock [haddock@mbari.org]
Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 10:09 PM
To: marcia@wave.mbari.org; jgb@wave.mbari.org; hthomas@wave.mbari.org;
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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