ION Minutes
IUGG Meeting
July 2, 2011, 6:00-7:00PM
IASPEI Office, Melbourne
Convention Center
Melbourne, Australia
Attendees:
Stephen
(Chairman)
Best
De Santis
Lee
Yun
Tsuboi-san
Araki-san
Ito-san
Baba-san
Grenard
Howe
1) The minutes of the 2010 AGU Breakfast Meeting were
accepted.
2) This was Ralph Stephen's last meeting as ION
Chair. The Chairmanship has rotated
to Kaneda-san from JAMSTEC.
3) We might be able to get some financial support
from IASPEI to cover expenses of our meetings.
4) The next Joint IAHS-IAPSO-IASPEI Scientific
Assembly will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, July 22-26, 2013. Proposals for special symposia or
workshops should be sent to Peter Suhadolc by 31 January, 2012.
5) In order to encourage cooperation with international
scientists the CTBTO has a mechanism, through $0 contracts, to provide access
to data at their International Data Center.
6) DS3F (Deep-Sea and Sub-Seafloor Frontiers)
Conference will be held in Barcelona, 11-14 March, 2012.
7) Bruce Howe reported that John You from the University
of Sydney was leading an effort to install geophysical monitoring equipment on
seafloor telecommunications cables. You and Howe had an accepted paper at
SENSORCOMM 7 in Saint Laurent du Var, August 23,
2011. Neither can attend this
meeting but Angelo De Santis volunteered to present
their paper (after the ION meeting).
Howe also notified us that there is a Cables for
Ocean/Climate Monitoring and Disaster Warning workshop in Rome, 5-9 Sept 2011.
More information is given
in Appendix A.
8) Bruce also reported that the ALOHA
cabled observatory is up and running.
9) Mairi Best reported that there is an effort to
beef-up the seismic systems on the next phase of Neptune Canada.
10) Patrick Grenard
reported that the CTBTO is evaluating the next generation of acoustic
sensors. Now is a good time to introduce new
ideas.
11) Tsuboi-san
presented a report on the Tohoku earthquake as observed on the DONET
system. See Appendix B.
12) Membership: We added Won Sang Lee and Sukyoung Yun from KOPRI (Korean Polar Research
Institute). See our charter for membership criteria.
APPENDIX A:
-------- Original Message --------
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Subject: |
Rome 5-9 Sept 2011 submarine cable workshop |
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Date: |
Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:22:00 +1000 |
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From: |
John You <yuzhu.you@gmail.com> |
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To: |
Ralph Stephen <rstephen@whoi.edu> |
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CC: |
Bruce M. Howe <bhowe@hawaii.edu> |
Dear Dr. Stephen:
Thank you for the message about the Rome 5-9
Sept 2011 cable workshop which was sent to Bruce Howe.
Recently, a new idea to integrate sensors into submarine cable repeater housing
to form a harnessing real-time global climate change monitoring network including
tsunami warning, sea-level rise and seismic monitoring as well as nod
functionality with a low cost is presented in a Nature article:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7307/pdf/466690a.pdf
an ITU white paper (Tech Watch Report):
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/techwatch/Pages/submarinenetworks.aspx
and a Submarine Telecoms Forum Magazine paper:
http://www.subtelforum.com/issues/STF_54.pdf
Future generation of submarine cables and
systems should be turned to a multipurpose/multilayer system to meet the demand
for ocean/climate monitoring and disaster warning. The idea has received a wide
attention and response from UN agencies, telecommunication industry, telecom
companies and the scientific community. A workshop "Submarine cables for
ocean/climate monitoring and disaster warning: science, business, engineering
and law" is planned to be held in Rome 5-9 Sept 2011 as part of Green
Standards Week conference, organized jointly by ITU, WMO and IOC-UNESCO and
hosted by Italian Telecom (a flyer attached). The program and invitation letter
can be found
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/gsw/201102/programme.html
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/gsw/201102/index.html
Several Steering Committee (member list
attached) teleconferences have held and decided to have 1) an outcome document
of the workshop ready online in November 2011, 2) a roadmap for 2012 developed,
3) a working group of interested parties to develop a pilot project and 4)
another workshop to be organized in 2012 to report on the
activities and initiatives carried out so far.
At the same time, the relevant Fifth International Conference on Sensor Technologies and
Applications
(SENSORCOMM 2011) will be held soon on August
21-27, 2011 in French Riviera. Bruce and I submitted a paper (You and Howe,
SESORCOMM 2011) which has passed peer reviews and
accepted for presentation as well as a journal special issue
SENSORCOMM 7: Under Water Sensors and Systems
Turning submarine
telecommunications cables into a real-time multi-purpose global climate change
monitoring network
http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/ProgramSENSORCOMM11.html
However, there is a condition that the paper
must be presented at the conference. Unfortunately, Bruce and I are too busy to
be able to present the paper. We are seeking a representative to give the
SENSORCOMM paper at the conference. We would appreciate very much if someone
could help.
I would be grateful if you could distribute the
above message to the ION members and help in promoting the idea using telecoms
cables for ocean/climate monitoring and disaster warning. Also ION members are
welcome to attend the Rome 5-9 Sept 2011 cables for ocean/climate monitoring
and disaster warning workshop.
With best
regards.
John Yuzhu You, Dr.
Appendix B:
Dense Ocean floor Network system for Earthquakes and Tsunamis (DONET)