Meeting Minutes

NOPP P.I. Meeting Minutes
September 5, 2000

FleetLink PI Meeting on September 5, 2000 at MIT's Sea Grant Office

Present: R. Barnaby, A. Bucklin, K. Ekstrom, C. Goudey, D. Mountain, C. Pendleton, G. Williams

Absent: R. Groman, D. Holsom, P. Wiebe

First:

The goal of the FleetLink partners at this time should be restricted to fully instrumenting three vessels, trouble-shooting any technical problems, and keeping the field demonstration going as long as possible. All other issues and activities are secondary to this goal. Meeting this goal will essentially fulfill the goals and expectations described in the NOPP proposal.

Thus, we need to ensure that: 1) the F/V Susan & Caitlyn problems are solved, including repair of Met Sensor and field trial of net sensor, 2) the F/V Glenna and Jacob returns good and reliable data, and 3) the F/V Adventurer is fully instrumented.

We are awaiting the new hull-mounted SST sensors and the net sensors from Gary. Cliff et al. will continue conversations with Cam McLellan. WHOI has funding to pay for Inmarsat transmissions during the field demonstration phase.

Second:

We need to carefully strategize for efforts to obtain continued funding. Proposals from any FleetLink partner to continue aspects of the work should be encouraged, with the proviso that the lead proposer has the responsibility of informing the FleetLink PIs.

Plans afoot include:

NOPP renewal (Ann). Will require dog-and-pony at ONR prior to submission. Ann and Peter plan November DC trip.
NMFS/NEFMC (Cliff, Gary, Peter). Will require rationale from industry. Perhaps field trial showing usefulness of electronic logbook and telemetry for fishing practices and marketing.
Northeast Consortium (Cliff, Gary). Probably same as NMFS/NEFMC: needs fishing industry focus. Ms due October 1st is going to be late, but will be done.
More PR! Cliff will go to Albuquerque in January. Ann will lead preparation of a Sea Technology manuscript.

Third:

David Mountain provided excellent guidance for integration with NMFS environmental programs and databases, and future directions. David's handout materials are included here.

Use of FleetLink data by NEFSC:

To enhance our ability to determine and document the seasonal/interannual/decadal variability in water properties

Steps:

Establish process to retrieve or receive data from FleetLink data archive. (with Bob Groman)
On a weekly basis, determine mean surface T, S and associated anomalies by 10' square.
When NEFSC survey in the region, 1) compare the FleetLink 10' square values to the NEFSC values and 2) add the FleetLink 10' square values to the NEFSC values in generating property distribution maps and area average values.

We (NEFSC) determine anomalies in surface temperature and salinity relative to a reference ocean derived from the MARMAP data set. This data set covered the years 1978-1987 and had standard stations on about a 30 km separation. Annual cycles for properties were calculated. Knowing the day of the year and location of an observation, the property value expected from the MARMAP data set for that time and place can be calculated. The difference is the anomaly.