If you have questions about the upcoming AICC town meeting and
long-range planning for USCG Icebreakers to be held in conjunction
with the Fall meeting of AGU or any other AICC issues, feel free to
contact the AICC Chair, Lisa Clough at: cloughl [at] mail.ecu.edu or the
UNOLS office at: office [at] unols.org
For more information on the AICC itself, go to:
http://www.unols.org/aicc/
AICC Town Meeting and Long-Range Planning for USCG Icebreakers
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT PLANNING DOCUMENTS FOR TOWN MEETING:
30 November 2001
The AICC (Arctic Icebreaker Coordinating Committee) will hold a town
meeting in conjunction with the upcoming Fall meeting of AGU in San
Francisco. The town meeting will be Monday evening, 10 December 2001
at 6:30 PM in the Golden Gate Room at the Marriott Hotel. We anticipate
covering topics such as long-range planning for the icebreakers, and
look forward to hearing from the chief scientists on HEALY's 2001
cruises (AMORE and ALTEX).
In order to facilitate discussion of long-term planning, we would like
to review requests for future use of the U.S. Coast Guard Icebreakers.
If you plan to submit a request for a field program using a Coast Guard
Icebreaker in the next few years, please take a few minutes to complete
a UNOLS Ship Time Request Form at the following web site address:
http://www.gso.uri.edu/unols/ship/shiptime.html
The ship time request form has been revised to include a feature for
long-range planning. Please remember to check the box in the top, right
corner of the form titled, "Long Range Planning Document." You will also
still need to choose between "Ancillary Only," "Principal Use," and "No
Ship Required." The revised Ship Time Request form replaces the ad-hoc
system used in past years.
If and when you decide to submit an actual ship time request for this
program, you can access your Long-Range Planning Document, make any
necessary revisions to the form and resubmit it as a request. The
request will then be distributed automatically to the sponsoring agency,
the USCG and the UNOLS Office.
To view all planning documents and requests for the Coast Guard
Icebreakers, go to http://www.gso.uri.edu/unols/ship/mainmenu.html,
click on, "View current list of Final Ship time Request Forms," and
select the fields that you wish to view.
Please submit your Long-Range Planning documents by 30 November 2001 in
order to be presented at the December meeting. You may submit a
long-range planning document any time you want. The intent is for this
information to be used as a planning tool for AICC, funding agencies,
the Coast Guard, and other researchers that are considering proposals
for the future.
For those of you who wish to use any of the USCG Icebreakers in the
Arctic Ocean in 2003, we remind you that proposals for NSF funding are
due 15 February 2002.
If you have questions about any AICC issues, feel free to contact the
AICC Chair, Lisa Clough at: cloughl [at] mail.ecu.edu or the UNOLS office at:
office [at] unols.org
For more information on the AICC itself, go to:
http://www.unols.org/aicc/