International Ocean Network AGU Breakfast meeting 2011 minutes

 

Wednesday, December 7, 2011/12/07 7:00-8:00

Pacific F conference room in Hotel Marriott Marquis

 

Attendees: John OrcuttBruce HoweWang PinxianHuaiyang ZhouRalph StephenSukyoung YunJean-Paul MontagnerMartin Heesemann

 

1)     Seiji Tsuboi apologized absence of chairperson; Yoshiyuki Kaneda.

2)     Report from members

a)     John Orcutt – Ocean Observatories Initiatives US

b)     Bruce Howe – ALOHA cabled observatory

c)      Huaiyang Zhou – China plan

d)     Sukyoung Yun – KORPI plan

e)     Jean-Paul Montagner – ESONET/EMSO

f)      Martin Heesemann – NEPTUNE Canada

g)     Seiji Tsuboi – DONET/DONET2

3)     It was announced that Yoshiyuki Kaneda has submitted a session proposal to AOGS – AGU (WPGM) Joint Assembly, which will be held in Singapore on 13 to 17 August, 2012 with a title of ÒOcean-Floor Network Observatories and Scientific ApplicationsÓ. Once accepted, all are encouraged to submit an abstract to this session.

4)     Ralph Stephen asked if ION meeting will be held during next EGU meeting in Vienna. Because the deadline for session proposal is already over, there will be no ION specific scientific session. But it may be good to have a meeting because of geographical location of Vienna and sessions (e.g. ÒInstrumentation, Measurement Strategies and Methods for Ocean-Based Geoscience InvestigationsÓ) that are already part of the program. It will be considered and will be announced soon if we will have a meeting.

5)     It was discussed how the ION web site will be maintained. Currently, the ION website is maintained by Ralph Stephen at WHOI. It will be discussed if the web site will be transferred to JAMSTEC.

6)     It was requested that ION membership and mailing-list should be updated.