# Platforms Technical Council
# 2006 Proposal Abstracts
# Mon 18 July, 2005
# 1300-1400

# Attending: Chaffey, Chavez, Headley, Hobson, O'Reilly, Robison

# Objectives: 
- Discuss submitted abstracts, group assignments, presentation attendance
- Discuss council functions and activities

Previous Action Items:
- Initiatives Workshop date (Aug 16 or 18, TBD)

Submitted Abstracts:
Instrumentation
   001 Application of Novel Sensor Technology (Johnson/Coletti)
   002 AUV Imaging (Reisenbichler/McBride)
   005 Biofilms and Biofouling (Klimov)
   006 MBARI Chemical Sensor Program (Johnson/Coletti)
   019 Nitrogen Cycle Initiative (Zehr)
   021 Optical Measurement of Photosynthetic Pigment In Coral (Radochonski/Meese)
   022 Pelagic-Benthic Coupling (Smith)
   024 Seafloor Upward-Looking Bioacoustic System (Smith, Robison/McGill)
   027 Upper-Ocean pH Observatory (Kolber/Klimov)

Platforms
   009 (DLSCAP) Dorado Low-Speed Control Augmentation Package (Rock/Hobson)
   012 ESP Applications (Scholin/Jensen)
   017 Midwater Respirometer System (Reisenbichler/Okuda)
   020 OASIS Plug-and-Work (Chavez/Headley)
   025 Sensphere (Meese)
   003 AUV Docking (Bellingham)

Software
   004 AVED Tool (Edgington/Cline)
   007 Coordinated Data Management (Chavez/Gomes)
   014 Integrating Biological Data (Robison)
   018 Mining VARS (Paull/Chase)
   023 SDS (Caress et al./Gomes)
   026 SSDS Operations (Chavez/Gomes)

No Engineering Required
   008 Davidson (Borok/Barry)
   010 EARTH 2006 (Matsumoto/Graybeal)
   011 East Blanco Depression (Vrijenhoek)
   013 ESP Probe Chemistries (Preston/Scholin)
   015 Midwater Ecology (Robison)
   016 Midwater Time Series (Robison)
   028 Using Video Archives (Hamner)
   029 Mesopelagic Thaliacea in Montery Bay (Madin)

What to look for in abstracts:
- cost/benefits, potential for impact (especially on MBARI science)
- find out what related efforts going on externally
- are there other applications that would have greater impact
- look at abstracts against published criteria
 
# Proposal Process:

# Council Activities
- What are we for? We need to figure this out as a group; if we decide to be an active body, we need a plan to execute our mission.
- Be informed about current scientific/technical issues and trends related to platforms and form comments/opinions on how MBARI should respond to them
- prevent ourselves from reinventing things 
- How do we accomplish this?
- look at initiatives internal/external
- look at ORION and other reports
- best way may be to talk about our problems specifically
- questions:
	- number/complexity of moorings
	- scientific fleet funding (pull back across board vs directed surgical cuts)

Action Items: 
- Next Meeting: Thursday 21 July, 1300-1400
	- Discuss abstracts
	- Discuss larger directions, reading list etc.