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AGENDA
Day of Engineering, Science
and Technology
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
8:45 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Pacific Forum (except as noted)
Theme: Looking to the Future
Time Title Presenter(s)
8:15 - 8:45 Breakfast
8:45 - 9:00 Introduction Chris Scholin
President and CEO
MBARI Pushing the Envelope
9:00 - 9:30 Controlled, Agile and Novel Observing
Network (CANON) Francisco
Chavez
Senior Scientist
9:30 - 10:00 Vision for the technologies
of the future
Jim Bellingham
Chief Technologist
10:00 -10:30 Data from the depths around the clock
(MARS)
Craig Dawe
Technical Support Manager/
MARS Manager
10:30 - 11:00 BREAK
11:00 -11:30 The ocean in a high CO2 world,
from deep to shallow
Peter Brewer
Senior Scientist
11:30 - 12:00 How do we observe biogeochemical
cycles at the global scale in a
changing world?
Ken Johnson
Senior Scientist
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH - Pacific Forum
Persistent Presence
1:00 - 1:30 Group 1 (Test Tank)
Long Range AUV
CANON Field tools
Moored ESP
Group 2 (Building D High Bay)
Benthic Imaging AUV
MBARI new vessel designs
Brian Kieft
Software
Engineer
Thomas
Hoover
Instrumentation
Engineer
ESP Team
Brett
Hobson
Mechanical
Engineer
Keith
Raybould
Chief Operations
Officer
1:30 - 2:00 Group1 and 2 switch
2:00 - 2:30 BREAK - Walk back to the Pacific Forum
A Look Forward
2:30 - 3:00 Extending an autonomous presence
(wave-powered buoys
and AUV docking)
Andy Hamilton
Systems Engineer
3:00 - 3:30 Ocean visualization
Dave Caress
Software Engineer
Brian Schlining
Software Engineer
Brett Hobson
Mechanical Engineer
3:30 - 4:00 Exploration and discovery: careful
plans and serendipity
Bob Vrijenhoek
Senior Scientist
4:00 - 6:00 Allhands reception in Atrium
Posters in the Pacific Forum
? Sediment traps and ROV operations under
icebergs
? High-Resolution AUV Mapping Reveals
Structural Details of Submarine Inflated Lava
Flows
? Topography within the axial channels of
Monterey and Soquel Canyons
? Development of a High-Resolution Shallow
Seismic Refraction Tomography System at
the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research
Institute
? Distinctive Fine-Scale Morphology of Hydrate
Ridge
? Fine-Scale Morphology of Gas-Rich Sites on
the Cascadia Margin Near Bullseye Vent
? Fine-Scale Morphology of West Mata Volcano
and the Northeast Lau Spreading Center, Lau
Basin from AUV Multibeam Surveys
? Connecting an Ocean-Bottom Seismometer
to a Seafloor Cabled Observatory: A
Prototype System in Monterey Bay
? Development of in situ Respirometers for
Ocean Acidification Studies
? Time series analysis of six whale-fall
communities in Monterey Canyon
? Cataloguing biodiversity in the deep-sea:
tools, techniques, and challenges
? Remote Detection of Marine Microbes and
Functional Genes Using the ESP
? Brett Hobson
? Dave Clague
? Eve Lundsten
? Rich Henthorn
? Charlie Paull
? Hans Thomas
? Dave Caress
? Paul McGill
? Michael Risi, Craig Okuda,
Bob Herlien
? Kyra Schlining
? Nancy Jacobsen Stout
? ESP Team member
