Scientific Committee for Oceanographic Aircraft Research SCOAR

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Scientific Committee for Oceanographic Aircraft
Research (SCOAR)

• Inaugural Meeting DRAFT agenda
• February 25 26, 2003
• Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely-Piloted
  Aircraft Studies (CIRPAS)
• Marina, California

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Agenda February 25, 2003

• 1400 to 1700
• Organizational and planning session for SCOAR
  Chair, Committee members, CIRPAS representatives
  and UNOLS Office will be held. Others may join if
  available. Summary of recommendations and
  discussions will be presented to all meeting
  participants during the formal meeting on
  Wednesday.

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Subjects that will be reviewed

• Committee membership
• Tentative meeting schedule
• Goals and Objectives of SCOAR
• Interactions with CIRPAS, Agencies and other
  Aircraft Operators
• Services to be provided to facility users
• Finalize agenda for SCOAR meeting

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AgendaWednesday February 26

• 0800 to 0830 - Coffee and continental breakfast
• 0830 to 0900 Welcome and introduction
• Welcome by CIRPAS and SCOAR Chair
• Introduction of participants
• Review Agenda

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Agenda

• 0900 to 930 Purpose and Objectives of SCOAR
• Introduce and review terms of reference and
  stated objectives
• 0930 - 1000- Report by CIRPAS representatives
• Structure of the organization
• Role of key personnel
• Overview of the facilities
• Past and planned support of the Oceanographic
  community
• Objectives and desires for interaction with SCOAR
• 1000 to 1015 Break

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Agenda

• 1000 to 1200 Agency reports
• Overview by Federal Agency Representatives
• ONR John Freitag
• NSF Jim Huning
• NOAA Jim McFadden/AOC
• NASA/ICCAGRA Cheryl Yuhas

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Agenda

• Report by UNOLS brief overview
• SCOAR goals and objectives
• Discussion of objectives and how to achieve them
• Develop consensus on the priorities for
  objectives
• 1200 to 1300 Lunch at CIRPAS

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Agenda

• 1300 to 1430 Development of action items and
  recommendations
• Committee Structure and membership
• Action item list and assignment
• Future meetings
• 1430 Adjourn formal meeting Tour of Facilities

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http//www.unols.org/scoar/
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SCOAR Terms of Reference and Operating Procedures

• 1. Purpose
• 2. Composition
• 3. National Oceanographic Aircraft Facilities
• 4. SCOAR meetings and process
• 5. Implementation, Amendment and Termination
• Appendix I

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UNOLS Mission Statement

• The University-National Oceanographic Laboratory
  System (UNOLS) is an organization of academic
  oceanographic institutions working in cooperation
  with agencies of the U.S. Federal Government to
  ensure broad access to modern, well-operated,
  state-of-the-art research vessels, submersibles
  and facilities required to support a healthy
  and vigorous research and education program
  in the ocean sciences.
• UNOLS is an advisory body that provides the
  mechanisms for coordinated scheduling and access
  to research vessels and facilities, cooperation
  and innovation by facility operators and broad
  community input to operators and federal agencies
  regarding current and future facility
  requirements for the ocean sciences.

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1. Purpose

• SCOAR is an advisory committee
• Established in accordance with Annex II of the
  UNOLS charter
• Provide recommendations and advice to operators
  and funding agencies
• Aircraft facilities designated by UNOLS as a
  National Oceanographic Aircraft Facility
• Operations
• Sensor development
• Fleet composition
• Utilization
• Data services

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1. Purpose (cont.)

• SCOAR and the UNOLS Office will provide the ocean
  science user community with valuable information
  and advice concerning
• Experiment design
• Facility usage
• Scheduling
• Capabilities

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1. Purpose (cont.)

• The Committee will promote collaborations and
  cooperation between
• Facility operators
• Funding agencies
• The scientific community
• To improve aircraft facilities supporting the
  ocean sciences
• Availability
• Capabilities
• Quality

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1. Purpose (cont.)

• Promote collaborations between the various
  scientific communities that use aircraft to
  support their research
• Ocean sciences
• Atmospheric sciences
• Others
• The committee will work to improve utilization
  and capabilities for all of these communities.
• SCOAR will also recommend the designation of
  aircraft facilities as National Oceanographic
  Facilities to the UNOLS Council and membership.

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2. Composition

• Scientists with broad-based research experience
• Ocean sciences
• Atmospheric science
• Projects that coordinate the use of aircraft with
  other Oceanographic Facilities such as Research
  Vessels
• Represent the various oceanographic disciplines
• Ability to advise on the effective use of
  aircraft assets in support of the ocean sciences

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2. Composition (cont.)

• The initial composition
• Chair
• Carl Friehe - U.C. Irvine
• Four oceanic and atmospheric scientists
• Charles Flagg - Brookhaven National Labs
• Ken Melville - Scripps
• John Bane - Univ. North Carolina
• Daniel Riemer - RSMAS
• The committee may recommend additional members
  with the approval of the Council and the funding
  agencies

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2. Composition (cont.)

• Appointed members will normally
• Come from institutions other than the operating
  institutions of the aircraft facilities
• In no case would there be more than one person
  from any individual institution
• Does not count the ex-officio representatives
• Members of the SCOAR will be appointed
• For three-year terms
• Staggered so that one or two terms begin each
  year
• Individuals may not serve more than two
  consecutive terms

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2. Composition (cont.)

• Nominations to the SCOAR and for SCOAR Chair will
  be open to the research community
• Vacancies will be announced in various weekly
  journals or other venues as appropriate
• Candidates will be asked to submit their vitae
  and letters of interest
• Applications for membership to the SCOAR and the
  SCOAR Chair will be reviewed by the standing
  SCOAR and voted on by the membership.
• The UNOLS Chair shall appoint the SCOAR members
  and Chair from the nominations made by SCOAR
  after consultation with the Council.

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2. Composition (cont.)

• The operating institution of each National
  Oceanographic Aircraft Facility may designate
  ex-officio member(s) of SCOAR to represent the
  operational aspects of the facility.
• Bob Bluth, CIRPAS, Naval Postgraduate School
• Haflidi Jonsson, CIRPAS, Naval Postgraduate
  School
• John Seinfeld, California Institute of Technology
  
• With the Council's concurrence, other standing
  committees of UNOLS may also designate ex-officio
  members to SCOAR.
• RVTEC, RVOC, FIC, AICC, DESSC, SSC

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3. National Oceanographic Aircraft Facilities

• Academic organizations or institutions that
  operates one or more aircraft in support of
  oceanographic research or education
• Made available to qualified scientists from any
  institution with funding for the use of the
  facility
• Provide access to aircraft facilities to
  scientists that do not operate or otherwise have
  available the required aircraft facilities
• UNOLS institutions that operate designated
  National Facilities will be designated as UNOLS
  operator institutions in accordance with the
  UNOLS charter.

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3. National Oceanographic Aircraft Facilities
(cont.)

• An aircraft facility may be designated a National
  Oceanographic Aircraft Facility
• SCOAR will recommend the designation of aircraft
  facilities as National Oceanographic Aircraft
  Facilities
• Review by the UNOLS Council
• Approval of the UNOLS membership
• Concurrence of the owner and operator of the
  facility
• With reasonable assurance of ongoing support by
  one or more funding agencies
• National Oceanographic Aircraft Facilities may be
  multi- or special-purpose facilities
• May be designated for the entire annual operating
  period or any significant period thereof

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3. National Oceanographic Aircraft Facilities
(cont.)

• Opportunity for review and input from Federal
  funding agencies other than the owner of a
  facility should be included as part of the
  designation process.
• Each National Oceanographic Aircraft Facility
  approved for designation by the UNOLS membership
  will be described and listed as a separate
  appendix to these terms of reference. The
  appendix will list the dates of approval, renewal
  and expiration for this designation.

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4. SCOAR meetings and process

• Meeting schedule proposed by the committee
• Approved by the supporting funding agencies
• Typically two times a year depending on the
  number of designated National Oceanographic
  Aircraft Facilities
• Rotate between facility operators and funding
  agency locations
• Travel support provided to appointed members of
  the committee through the UNOLS office budget
• Ex-officio and agency representatives will
  provide their own support for travel unless
  otherwise approved

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4. SCOAR meetings and process (cont.)

• The SCOAR Chair will set the agenda in
  consultation with
• The Committee
• UNOLS Office
• Facility managers
• Funding agencies

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4. SCOAR meetings and process (cont.)

• The focus of meetings will include but not be
  limited to
• Information items from aircraft facility managers
• Information items from funding agencies
• Information from and coordination with other
  organizations concerned with aircraft facilities,
  such as
• Federal Oceanographic Facilities Committee (FOFC)
• Interagency Coordinating Committee for Airborne
  Geosciences Research and Application (ICCAGRA)
• Information from and coordination with other
  UNOLS standing committees.

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4. SCOAR meetings and process (Agenda cont.)

• Technical/scientific briefings on past and future
  field programs
• Information on utilization and scheduling of
  facilities
• Facilitate the requesting of aircraft facility
  services
• Coordination of the use of Aircraft facilities
  with Research Vessel Operations
• Facilitating the scheduling of joint Research
  Vessel and Aircraft experiments

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4. SCOAR meetings and process (Agenda cont.)

• New observing system and instrumentation
  developments.
• Promoting participation by researchers in the
  Ocean Sciences as mentors for new instrument
  development projects.
• Facilitating the transition of new technologies
  from the military, the atmospheric sciences,
  space sciences and other areas to facilities
  supporting the ocean sciences.
• Promoting positive interactions between the
  atmospheric and oceanographic science
  communities.
• Promoting and supporting collaboration between
  agencies and institutions supporting research
  aircraft facilities for the ocean sciences.

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4. SCOAR meetings and process (Agenda cont.)

• Review flight policies, operating procedures and
  safety issues to ensure compatibility with
  research plans and research vessel operations.
• At the request of any funding agency or facility
  operator SCOAR would review and provide advice or
  possible solutions regarding any technical issues
  that may arise during proposal or pre-proposal
  reviews being conducted by the agency or
  operator.
• Recommendations and reports will be prepared with
  the assistance of the UNOLS office and will be
  made through the UNOLS Council and Chair.

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5. Implementation, Amendment and Termination

• These terms of reference will be reviewed,
  amended and readopted
• by the Committee
• with the approval of the UNOLS Council
• as necessary
• and at least every three years.
• The committee can be dissolved
• by vote of the UNOLS membership
• by the UNOLS Council
• due to lack of fiscal support
• or in the event that there are no designated
  National Oceanographic Aircraft Facilities.

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5. Implementation, Amendment and Termination
(cont.)

• The establishment of this committee and the
  designation of National Oceanographic Aircraft
  Facilities will be renewed every three years by
  vote of the UNOLS membership.
• Originally Adopted September 27, 2002 at
  Arlington, VA, must be renewed by September 2005
• Appendix I - Designation as a National
  Oceanographic Aircraft Facility
• CIRPAS is designated as a National Oceanographic
  Aircraft Facility under Annex II of the UNOLS
  charter by vote of the UNOLS membership at
  Arlington, Va. On September 27, 2002. Such
  designation is valid until September 2005 or
  until such time as this designation is otherwise
  removed.

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UNOLS Goals are

• Ensure broad, coordinated access to oceanographic
  research facilities
• Work towards continuous quality improvement of
  existing facilities
• Plan for and foster support for the oceanographic
  facilities of the future

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Goals and objectives of SCOAR are

• Access, Scheduling Utilization
• To establish CIRPAS as a functional National
  Oceanographic Aircraft Facility
• To facilitate the requesting of services from
  CIRPAS
• Aircraft request form
• Recommend scheduling and/or allocation process
• To coordinate the use of the CIRPAS Aircraft
  facility with Research Vessel Operations.
• To facilitate scheduling of joint Research Vessel
  and Aircraft  experiments
• To serve as a conduit for interaction between the
  atmospheric and oceanographic science
  communities. 

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Goals and objectives of SCOAR

• Quality and Safety improvement
• Provide useful information to potential users of
  the aircraft facilities
• To seek collaboration with other oceanographic
  research facility and aircraft operations.
• Find best practices and common problems to
  resolve.
• To review and advise on Flight Policies and
  Procedures

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Goals and objectives of SCOAR

• Develop and plan for new facilities
• To recruit people from the Ocean Sciences to
  mentor new instrument development projects
• To facilitate the transition of new technology
  from military to civilian use and from our
  development programs to general availability
• Consider the designation of other National
  Oceanographic Aircraft Facilities
• Plan for and promote development of new aircraft
  facilities

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SCOAR should set its goals and objectives

• Discuss
• Modify
• And prioritize these objectives

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UNOLS - Overview

• Established in 1972
• Currently 63 Members
• Users and Operators of Oceanographic Facilities
• Primarily Research Vessels (UNOLS Vessels)
• Submersibles (ALVIN, JASON, Etc.)
• Coast Guard Icebreakers (HEALY, POLARs)
• Starting to think about others, such as
  Observatories
• AND AIRCRAFT
• Advisory body involved with coordinating
  cooperative scheduling and operation of
  facilities
• A forum for user input to operators and funding
  agencies regarding facility needs.

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UNOLS Organization
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