Call for Speakers
An abstract of 200 to 500 words should be uploaded via the link below may include one or two illustrations or photo images. Your contribution should be of technical, not promotional nature. Abstract submissions will open on November 6, 2023, and must be received by March 22, 2024, to be considered. Authors will be notified of abstract status shortly after receipt.
WORKSHOP THEME: “Building On the Past and Reaching for the Future"
FORMAT: The Speaker Program will be organized on focused topical sessions consisting of 20-minute power-point presentations followed by a question and answer panel discussion. Topics include, but are not limited to:
LONG-TERM OBSERVING SYSTEMS:
NOAA: PMEL/AOML, NDBC and CO-OPS
US IOOS Regional updates
Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)
JAMSTEC
Australia/New Zealand – CSIRO, IMOS, AIMS
China State Oceanic Administration (SOA), FIO
Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS)
National Taiwan Univ. (NTU)
BUOY AND MOORING DESIGN:
Buoy Design and Analysis
Mooring Riser Elements - Cables and Terminations
Moored System Failures – and Lessons Learned
Novel/Specialized Mooring Configurations
Modeling of Mooring Systems
Low-Impact Moorings for Environmentally Sensitive Sites
Deployment techniques, Operations and maintenance (O&M)
RELIABILITY AND HARSH ENVIRONMENTS:
Surviving Through the Air-Sea Interface
Cold Climate Systems: Arctic and Antarctic Ice Buoy Systems and Components
Service Life Prediction and Testing of Key Components
Continuous Improvement – Building on Successes and Learning from Failures
Storms (Hurricanes, Typhoons, etc.)
High Currents (Gulf Stream, etc.)
Shallow Water
Big Waves
Biofouling
POWER:
Mooring Power Systems
Prediction, Modeling, Management, and Control
Solar Power Generation
Wind Power Generation
Marine Hydrokinetics – Power from Waves and Currents
Energy Storage – Battery Systems
DATA:
Data Collection, Storage, and Retrieval – from Seafloor to Surface
Mooring Telemetry: Cabled, Inductive, Subsea RF, Acoustic, Optical, other
Shoreside Telemetry: Line of Sight RF, VHF, Cellular, Satellite, etc.
Adaptive sampling, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
ECOSYSTEMS MONITORING:
Monitoring technologies for Coastal processes
Water Quality/eDNA Sampling
Harmful algal blooms (HABS)
Marine mammal monitoring
Fisheries acoustics
Offshore Wind Development – Environmental Monitoring
SENSORS & INSTRUMENTATION:
Physical Oceanography: Currents, Meteorology, Air-Sea Interaction, Waves
Sensors for Biology, Chemistry, Geology
Acoustics: Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), Vessel Detection, Port security
Full water-column monitoring
Benthic Sensors – Bottom Boundary Currents, Ocean Bottom Seismometers (OBS)
Instrumenting/integrating buoys of opportunity
Profilers – Wire-Crawling, Wave-Powered, Winched
SYNERGY:
Solutions and Experience from Oil Exploration Platforms and Buoy Systems
Docking Systems (AUV, Gliders)
Offshore Floating Wind Platforms, their Moorings and Cable Challenges
REGIONAL AND LOCAL OBSERVING:
GLERL
SW Pacific Wave Monitoring
Electronic copies of each presentation must be uploaded by the presentation deadline of May 10, 2024. Upload instructions will be sent to presenters.
Please submit presentations as early as possible so they may be loaded onto the workshop presentation computer. Please notify us in advance if you will need to use your own computer for your presentation. Both the abstract and presentation material will be included in the Workshop Record. If you have any questions about abstracts and presentation material, please send an email to [email protected].
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