Brief summary of chief scientist meeting held 15 May 2002 at COAS in
Corvallis, Oregon.

This was a followup meeting to a previous (11 March 2002) meeting.
The purpose of this meeting was to nail down final logistical issues
for the May-June 2002 cruises, which involve the Wecoma, Thompson and
Frosti.

Meeting Attendees
Ted Strub (OSU, NEPEXCO Chair)
Hal Batchelder (OSU, NEP Ex. Dir.)
Jack Barth (OSU, Revelle ChSci)
Tim Cowles (OSU, Thompson ChSci)
Julie Keister (NWFSC, Wecoma and New Horizon ChSci)
Linda Fayler (OSU, MarTech Group)
Toby Martin (OSU, MarTech Group)
Ricardo Letelier (OSU)
Mike Ott (OSU)
Bob O'Malley(OSU)
Chris Wingard (OSU)
Russ Desiderio (OSU)
Amanda Ashe (OSU)
John Hercher (So. Salem High School; outreach)

The meeting occurred from 1330 to ca. 1430.

1) Ship departure schedules (hopefully finalized)
  a) Thompson; departs Seattle, Monday, 27 May; arrives Newport
  Tuesday; loading Seasoar begins Wed AM; departs Newport Friday,
  31 May (late afternoon)
  b) Wecoma; departs Newport Wednesday, 29 May, ca. 1100
  c) Frosti; departs Astoria Friday, 31 May, ca. 1200

2) Cruise plans
  a) Thompson; will use ca. 6 days to complete full mesoscale grid;
  with new faired cable and winch, have capability to run full lines
  to maximum desired depth (no wire changeover); after completing
  mesoscale survey, ca. 3 days will be devoted to fine-scale survey,
  drifter, and station work, in coordination with other 2 vessels in
  northern fine grid region (tentatively on or near Heceta Bank); then
  2-3 days in southern fine scale region (near Cape Blanco); conclude
  cruise with shortened repeat of mesoscale survey from south to north

  b) Wecoma; will conduct station operations (MOCNESS, CTD, expt's,
  VPT) along LTOP lines (NH,HH,FM,RR,CR) requiring about 5-6 days;
  will then proceed to northern region (NH line) and conduct station
  ops until crew exchange on 7 June; after short visit to Newport,
  will undertake several diel studies in northern region (hopefully
  with other 2 vessels nearby); then conduct similar stations ops for
  2-3 days in southern region before cruise ends in Newport.

  c) Frosti; will sample nearshore (mostly shelf stations only) for
  salmon along ca. every second line (1,3,..) and deploy other
  sampling gears in initial mesoscale survey of region; on ca. 8 June
  will visit Newport where samples will be offloaded and crew changed;
  will conduct diel trawling in both northern and southern fine-scale
  regions in conjunction with the Wecoma (and hopefully the Thompson).

3) Communications:  Iridium satellite phone system and computer
purchased for use on Thompson (and later on New Horizon)--should be
more reliable than cellular and less costly than Inmarsat.; web and
ftp sites have been established for exchange of data files/images
among vessels and shore; Toby Martin will handle
communications/mirroring of data between pigeon and globec site.

4) Other issues:
   a) additional copy of Nobeltech navigation/chart plotting software
   is needed to use with Seasoar on vessels other than Wecoma; NEP
   office agreed to purchase a copy (ca. $350)
   b) Scientists going on each cruise--lists of names were provided
   for both Wecoma and Thompson cruises
   c) HTI towing from Thompson; Bill Martin had a davit constructed
   and winch placed to enable deployment, towing and recovery of HTI
   fish.

A few unresolved issues will be addressed during loading operations
immediately before cruise departure.