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Announcement and Call For Speakers

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Sponsors
The Buoy Workshop ‘2000 is conducted with support from the Ocean Engineering and Marine Systems of the Office of Naval Research, and from the Marine Technology Society, Washington D.C.

Coordination
Dr. Walter Paul, MS #9
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Tel: 508/289-3506, Fax: 508/457-2195
E-mail: wpaul@whoi.edu
Preliminary Program
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Dates and Times

Tuesday, May 9, 2000 - 8:15 AM to 5:10 PM

Wednesday, May 10, 2000 - 8:15 AM to 5:00 PM

Thursday, May 11, 2000 - 8:15 AM to Noon

Place

Clark 5th Floor Conference Area
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole MA 02543
Tel: 508/457-2000, Fax: 508/457-2195

Sponsoring Organizations
Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research, Washington, DC Marine Technology Society, Buoy Committee, Washington, DC
The ONR/MTS Buoy Workshop 2000 is up to an excellent start. A total of 28 speakers have volunteered to report about their work for the two and a half-day event. The following Preliminary Program contains the approximate schedule of talks and tours of some of the laboratories and the shops of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The Workshop intends to stimulate a thorough exchange and to provide up-to-date information on the status of this highly specialized technology. A special session will address the theme: Going for the Long Haul: Oceanographic Buoy Systems for Long Term Deployments, where speakers will provide insight into oceanographic buoy systems that have overcome the many challenges to long term survival in the ocean environment. 

Presentations are grouped in sessions. Each group of talks will end with a panel discussion, headed by a recognized expert in the topic covered during the session. We will have the benefit of foreign participation, with speakers from Canada, Great Britain, and Taiwan reporting about buoy programs in their countries. Speakers and members of the audience are encouraged to share both failures and successes in their work. There will also be time for attendees to give short impromptu presentations about a special experience, a new device developed, or a technique learned to improve the mastering of buoy systems. The program will be interrupted to provide the opportunity to participate in tours to visit WHOI laboratories and calibration facilities as well as the WHOI shops and docks. Exhibits by firms with buoy system related merchandise will be displayed in the Workshop area. In addition Mooring Systems Inc. a local manufacturer, is organizing an exhibit in an after hours Open House on the first night and after the closing of the Workshop. All this should contribute to a true exchange and learning atmosphere that characterizes the workshop environment. 

I hope that you will be able to attend and enjoy the Buoy Workshop, and meet the people working in the challenging specialized technology of oceanographic buoys systems.

Sincerely,
Walter Paul
Buoy Workshop Coordinator
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
Tel: (508) 289-3506, Fax (508) 457-2195
E-mail: wpaul@whoi.edu

 
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