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ONR/MTS Buoy Workshop
Final Program
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Wednesday, March 15, 2006
SESSION 4: AUTONOMOUS BUOYS, BUOY BASED OBSERVATIONS AND NETWORKS
8:20 - 8:40 David Sparks and Brian Montague, SealandAire Technologies Inc. Jackson, Michigan
Persistent Unmanned Autonomous Buoy (PUMA) – Active Station Keeping Platform

8:40 - 9:00 Thomas. R. Consi, G. Barske, H. Bootsma, T. Hansen, J. Janssen, V. Klump, R. Paddock and J. T. Waples, UWM Great Lakes WATER Institute, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
GLUCOS: A Buoy-Based Sensor Network for Lake Michigan
9:00 - 9:20 Steve Ruberg, R.W. Muzzi, J.C. Lane, T.C. Miller, NOAA/Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Real-Time Environmental Coastal Observation Network
9:20 - 9:30 SESSION DISCUSSION - Panel Leader: Steve Ruberg, NOAA/Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab, Ann Arbor, Michigan
9:30 - 10:05 Coffee Break
SESSION 5: OCEAN OBSERVATORY AND TSUNAMI BUOY SYSTEMS, IOOS FORUM
10:05 - 10:25 Dan Frye, Jon Ware, Walter Paul, Mark Grosenbaugh, Lee Freitag, Matt Grund, Don Peters, John Kemp, William Ostrom and Norm Farr, WHOI, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Technology for Ocean Observatories – Experience with Three Prototype Systems
10:25 - 10:45 Svein Eric Aasen, FUGRO-Oceanor Inc., Trondheim, Norway
The SEAWATCH System now also Featuring Tsunami Surveillance
10:45 -10:55 SESSION DISCUSSION – Panel Leader: Hugh Milburn, NOAA-PMEL Seattle
SESSION 6: IOOS FORUM
11:00 -11:30 IOOS Industry Information Exchange Forum
Presenters:
Dr. Andrew Clark, IOOS Industry Liaison, National Office for Integrated and Sustained Ocean Observations (Ocean US), Arlington, Virginia
Dr. David Green, NOAA Tsunami Program Manager, Silver Spring, Maryland, and Elizabeth Tirpark, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC.
11:30 -Noon IOOS Question and Answer Session
Panelists:
Andrew Clark, David Green, Elizabeth Tirpak, and
Christian Meinig, NOAA-PMEL, Seattle, Washington, Rob Lawson, Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC), Kathleen O’Neil, National Data Buoy Center (NDBC), Stennis Station, Mississippi, and Svein Erik Aasen, FUGRO-Oceanor, Trondheim, Norway

12:00 - 1:15 Lunch
1:20 - 3:15 Tours of the Offshore Technology Research Center, the Haynes Coastal Engineering Laboratory, and the Geochemical & Environmental Research Laboratory, all at Texas A&M University.
3:15 - 3:45 Refreshment Break
SESSION 7: MEASUREMENTS FROM BUOY SYSTEMS
3:45 - 4:05 J. John Walpert, Norman Guinasso, Kevin Lamonte, Geochemical and Environmental Research Group, Lisa Campbell and Patrick Spooner, Dept. of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Detection of Harmful Algae Blooms Using the Texas Automated Buoy System (TABS)
4:05 - 4:25 Stephan Howden, University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi, David Gilhousen, NOAA National Data Buoy Center, Norman Guinasso and John Walpert, Texas A&M University, and Michael Sturgeon, NOAA
Hurricane Katrina Winds Measured by a Buoy Mounted Acoustic Anemometer

4:25 - 4:45 Hugh Milburn and Christian Meinig, NOAA-PMEL, Seattle, Washington
PICO Update

4:45 - 4:55 SESSION DISCUSSION
Panel Leader: Panel Leader: John Walpert, Texas AM University
5:00 Adjourn: Shuttle bus back to Amerisuites Hotel
6:20 - 8:30 Banquet at Messina Hof Winery

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