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

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

# Objectives: 
- Discuss submitted abstracts
- Discuss council functions and activities

Previous Action Items:
- Attend abstract presentations
- Reading list ideas
- Ideas to help find technical directions

Discussion of Abstracts/Proposals:
Should we discuss w/ authors present? Yes

## Platforms proposals
AUV Docking 003:
Target functional requirements: 
- focus on observatories
- not concerned with photic zone 
- (accessible other ways, less constrained) 
- coastal observatories might want this:can transit from deeper dock
- reliability better in deeper water
- there is a lot of information on website (use case studies)
- had to start over after mark, tarun left; started again in Nov ~ 4 mo actual run time
- working toward CDR
- MARS is great advantage
- Jim supported 3 docking projects (WHOI, private sector, Navy)
- battery technologies, inductive power xfer: better tech avail
- homing: can vehicle respond fast enough w/ USBL (18cm V 23 cm H resolution)
- science champion? francisco, ryan, canyon ... bring in later. this is engr push. moving autonomy in the ocean. potential to enable things like Loihi proposal.
- 3 yr plan? haven't down-selected yet, need to do CDR to know type of dock we'll use. Docking is getting a lot of attn (Bettel, Remus  @ AUV fest) all shallow water systems. If we don't get one working in 2 years it may not be worth it. 
- keeping vehicles inexpensive is is really important -- can get reliability up later in process.
- docking vehicle can be simpler -> more reliable
- tie-in with hovering capability? collision speed, vs cost/complexity
- currently dominant cost of AUVs is zephyr. Leverages great cost of running cable into the ocean.
- there is a user community on arctic consortium
- Brett PM for docking? under consideration...
- Docking is important to event detection and response (gliders too slow, can't always use Zephyr)
- requires surface expression; specifies some power and comms connection.


* we should look at hovering auv, auv docking and auv imaging projects together in an integrated way
* ESP should be in instrumentation project

Directions:
- we've made a big investment in observatories, and that will strongly inform our direction
- need to focus new proposals to be complementary to observatories
- Sensphere, e.g., is that complementary? a new direction? does this compete with observatory?
- terrestrial community has intensive/extensive sites: local intensive measurements still require larger environmental context.
- how important is node-node comms? can't have node-node comms easily in water. nodes are more expensive in water.
* biggest issue is resources resources between 3 AUV proposals; can take up resources and consume limited AUV hardware resources

- we should think about how to stage 
- difficult for other AUV projects to come forward w/o Jim's support (except Gulper)

- what is our relationship to user committees (Marcia chairs AUV UC)

* several proposals didn't have a scientist on board - it's important to have some science connection 


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)

Feedback abstracts:
- any that should be flagged as not viable
- ways to strengthen a proposal:
	- 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
Focus activities:
- reports to read
- identifying non-directions
- focusing questions:
	- platforms portfolio
		- mobile vs stationary
		- sampling requirements
		- number and type of different platforms
		- small projects that leverage on observatory efforts
	- specific science objectives


Action Items:
- UW APL briefing on PLUSNET/UPS field program: 14:00 in Harbor (distributed observing 
-> ASAP (adaptive sampling), AESOP (sub-grid scale models and processes), PLUSNET/UPS (sustainable (persistent) observing systems: lots of acoustics and others). All are ONR funded, they are interested in distributed observing systems. Together they have enough concentration of measurements.

- Next Meeting: