• Monday 23 September, 2024 – Health, Wellness & Civility at Sea Workshop
• Tuesday 24 September to Thursday 26 September, 2024 – IRSO Meetings

Meeting Information:

• Health, Wellness & Civility at Sea Workshop Agenda – 23 September 2024 – 1200-1700
• 2024 International Research Ship Operator Meeting Agenda – 24-26 September 2024

Meeting Presentations:

Day 1, Tuesday 24 September 2024

• ERVO Update (PDF) –  Aodhan Fitzgerald / Foras Na Mara Marine Institute
• Eurofleets (PDF) – Aodhan Fitzgerald / Foras Na Mara Marine Institute
• RVONZA Update (PDF) – Richard Brinkman / AIMS
• AIR Centre Partners RV’s Including New Constructions (PDF) – Mafalda Carapuço / AIR Centre
• New Fisheries and Oceanography Research Vessel, “Dra. Barbieri” (PDF) – Heinz Pearce / ASENAV
• NOAA – People, Platforms, Culture (PDF) – Amanda Goeller / NOAA
• “The research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen: Canada’s most successful model to bridge academic with governmental and indigenous research at sea” (PDF) – Alexandre Forest / Amundsen Science
• “A decade of marine geoscience in the Arctic Ocean: On, under and through the ice”. (PDF) – Mary Lynn Dickson / NRCAN
• Update of Japan’s Arctic research vessel “MIRAI II” (PDF) – Yuko Mori / JAMSTEC, Yumihiko Kobayashi / MOL
• AIMS Indigenous Partnership Program and Approaches for Engaging with First Nations Groups (PDF) – Richard Brinkman – AIMS
• AIMS RV Replacement Program (PDF) – Richard Brinkman and Peter Thurling / AIMS
• Tools for Ocean Exploration and Discovery – A Kongsberg Perspective (PDF) – Meme Lobecker / Kongsberg
• A replacement for the Celtic Explorer – Initial design requirements (PDF) – Aodhan Fitzgerald / Marine Institute
• Upgrading South Australia’s Research Capability (PDF) – Jane Ham / SARDI
• First purpose build research vessel for Northern Ireland, the story so far (PDF) – Pieter-Jan Schön / AFBINI

Day 2, Wednesday 25 September 2024

• Communications and Cybersecurity – updates for RV’s (PDF) – Marwan Chartouny / OmniAccess
• Risk Management, Insurance, and Admiralty Law (PDF) – Jonathan Gutoff / Roger Williams University School of Law
• Operation of Research Vessels in South Pacific, Chile (PDF) – Gonzalo Pereira / IFOP
• Future Fuels (PDF) – Mustafa El Zein / Glander Bunkering
• Focus on the French Fleet prospective at the horizon 2030 and beyond & Underwater technologies updates (PDF) – Goulwen Peltier / IFREMER
• 15 New French Pacific and Atlantic regional vessel & RV Pourquoi Pas? Modernisation (PDF) – Pierre Daelman / IFREMER
• Introduction to VARD and the vessel design process (PDF) – Lee Grace / VARD
• R/V “Gaia Blu”: management and technical challenges in the first two years of operation. (PDF) – Lorenza Evangelista / CNR, Simona Villano and Pietro Rosiello / Argo
• JTRACK IODP Exp.405 (PDF) – Yasuhiro Nambay / Jamstec
• ABB Dynafin (PDF) – Sampo Viheriälehto / ABB
• The First 5 Years of R/V Legend (PDF) – Shu-Heng Wu / Taiwan Ocean Research Institute
• Hydrogen hybrid zero-emission coastal class research vessel at Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Progress and Plan (PDF) – Bruce Appelgate / SCRIPPS
• Foreign vessel clearance procedures for marine research requests. (PDF) – Jennifer Vollrath / NRCAN
• NSF/OPP Antarctic Research Vessel project (PDF) – Mike Prince / NSF
• Update on NUYINA operations (PDF) – Imogen Pearce / Australian Antarctic Division
• Project Management: From Tender Specification to New Build Delivery (PDF) – Lauren Stotz / Maritime Survey Australia

Day 3, Thursday 26 September 2024

• Managing an aging ship: The past, present, and future of RV Cefas Endeavour (PDF) – James Parker / CEFAS
• RV David Packard – MBARI (PDF) – Will Moon / Glosten
• Sensor and data acquisition capabilities for science (PDF) – Peter Reedeker, Darrell Groom / AML
• Genavir’s carbon footprint and ways of achieving a 30% reduction with an ageing fleet + FuelEU Maritime (PDF) – Rémy Balcon / GENAVIR
• Optimising ship time with international barters and collaborations (PDF) – Eleanor Darlington / NOC
• Lessons learned and considerations for early collaboration, system integration, equipment trends, and warranty risks for new build planning and retrofits. (PDF) – Colin Gillis / Hawboldt
• New builds & overview of RV Pelagia operations over the last years before retirement (PDF) – Zeynep Erdem / NIOZ
• ‘Developments in UK autonomous campaigns – under ice and over the horizon’ (PDF) – Maartin Furlong and Matt Tiahlo / NOC
• RV Investigator Mid-Life Refit (PDF) – Sam Hinton / CSIRO
• Enabling multi-robot collaboration by integrating the Sonardyne Mini Ranger 2 system with the Robotic Operating System (PDF) – Geraint West / Sonardyne
• “Detained in Peru – a R/V FALKOR (too) Case Study” (PDF) – Eric King / Schmidt Ocean Institute
• Improving Bubble sweep down issues on R/V FALKOR (PDF) – Eric King / Schmidt Ocean Institute
• Research Vessel Projects, from shipyards perspective (PDF) – Luis Mourelle / Gondan Shipyard
• “Silent propulsion through Icy waters – Equipment challenges in Polar Conditions” (PDF) – Trond Paulsen / Kongsberg

Posters:

• AWI Poster (PDF) – Marius Hirsekorn / Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI)
• JAYWUN Poster (PDF) – Environmental Agency – Abu Dhabi
• Research Vessels Used by Department Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment (PDF) – Republic of South Africa Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment
• Seismic Oceanographic Research (PDF) – Adam Rakoczy / Gleipnir
• R/V Dra. BARBIERI and R/V ABATE MOLINA Poster (PDF) – Ivan Toro / INSTITUTO DE FOMENTO PESQUERO(IFOP)
• R/V Mario Ruivo Poster (PDF) – Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA)
• R/V Kexue’s Operation in 2023 (PDF) – IOCAS
• Updates of Japan’s Arctic Research Vessel “MIRAI II” (PDF) – Yumihiko Kobayashi and Yuko Mori / Japan Agency for Marine Earth Science and Technology
• Emergency Survey Operations after 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake (PDF) – Yasuhiro Namba and Keitaro Kubo / JAMSTEC
• SOI Poster – Eric King / Schmidt Ocean Institute
• Research Vessels Needed for the Science Wanted (PDF) – Jonathan Kellogg / MEOPAR
• MSA Poster (PDF) – Lauren Stotz / Maritime Survey Australia
• AMRIT Poster (PDF) – Zeynep Erdem / NIOZ
• Multi-purpose Marine Research Vessel (PDF) – Greg Foothead / NIWA
• Antarctic Research Vessel (PDF) – Mike Prince / NSF
• Comms and Cyber Security updates for R/V’s (PDF) – Marwan Chartouny / Omniaccess
• Specialist in Research Vessel Design (PDF) – Hans Ove Holmoy / Skipsteknisk
• UNOLS Poster (PDF) – Alice Doyle / UNOLS
• VOITH Propulsion for the Research Vessel Meteor IV (PDF) – Micheal Palm / VOITH