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Final
Program
Main
| Day 1 | Day 2 | Day
3
| Tuesday,
March 14, 2006 |
| 8:00
- 8:20 |
Transfer
by Shuttle Bus or car meeting
Site at Memorial Student Center (MSC)
|
| 8:30
- 10:00 |
Exhibit
Opens |
| 8:40
- 9:00 |
Welcome and Announcements
Opening Remarks: Dr. Björn Kjerfve,
Dean, College of Geosciences, and Dr. David Prior, Provost,
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
|
| SESSION 1: OVERVIEW
OF BUOY SYSTEMS |
| 9:00
- 9:20 |
Rick
Cole, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida,
Eric Tappa, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
CARIACO, The Best Kept Secret in Oceanography |
| 9:20
- 9:40 |
Chung-Chu
Teng, Landry Bernard, National Data Buoy Center, and Rodney
Riley, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC),
Stennis Space Center, Mississippi
NDBC's New Compact Data Buoy System |
| 9:40
- 10:00 |
Norman
Guinasso, Geochemical and Environmental Research Group, Texas
A&M University, College Station, Texas
Ten Years of the Texas Automated Buoy Systems (TABS)
|
| 10:00
- 10:40 |
Coffee
Break |
| 10:40
- 11:20 |
William
Ostrom, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Woods Hole
Massachusetts
Arctic Ice Moorings and Mooring Deployments in Pack Ice
|
| 11:20
- 11:35 |
SESSION
DISCUSSION - Speakers of Session 1 answer questions.
Panel Leader: Rick Cole, University of South Florida |
| 11:50
- 1:15 |
Lunch
|
| 1:15
- 3:10 |
Tours
of the Offshore Technology Research Center, the Haynes Coastal
Engineering Laboratory, and the Geochemical & Environmental
Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University. |
| SESSION 2: BUOYS
AND POWER GENERATION |
| 3:10
- 3:30 |
Edward
C. Kern, Irradiance Inc., Lincoln,
Massachusetts
Surface Buoy Photovoltaic Power Optimization |
| 3:30
- 3:50 |
David
B. Stewart, Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. Pennington, New Jersey
Autonomous Power Buoys for Remote Ocean Locations |
| 3:50
- 4:00 |
SESSION
DISCUSSION
- Panel Leader: David Stewart, Ocean Power Technologies, Inc.
|
| 4:00
- 4:20 |
Afternoon
Refreshment Break |
| SESSION 3: BUOY
HAZARDS AND MOORING COMPONENTS |
| 4:20
- 4:40 |
J.
Michael Strick, Chris Meinig, NOAA Pacific Environmental Laboratory
(PMEL), Seattle, Washington, and Don Conlee, National Data Buoy
Center (NDBC), Stennis Space Center, Mississippi:
Recent Experiences with Hydrogen Gas (H2) Generation in
Buoy Wells and Resulting Mitigation |
| 4:40
- 5:00 |
Hubert
Pelletier, Max Audrix, iXSea SAS, Brest, France
New Acoustic Product Line for Deep Sea, Cold Water and Extreme
Long Life Mooring Lines Deployment
and Positioning |
| 5:00
- 5:20 |
Debbie
Lampe, Bill Woodward, CLS America, Largo, Maryland
ARGOS 3- The Next Generation |
| 5:20
- 5:30 |
SESSION
DISCUSSION
- Panel Leaders: Chris Meinig, NOAA-PMEL, and Max Audrix, iXSea
SAS |
| 5:30 |
Adjourn:
Shuttle bus back to Amerisuites Hotel |
| 6:50
- 8:50 |
Workshop
Social at the George Bush Presidential Library |
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Last
updated 4/19/06 |
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