Final Program - Oceans 2007 MTS/IEEE Vancouver

Technical Program (cont’d.)
Wednesday, October 3
08:15 – 09:45
Plenary – Ballroom BC
On the Edge of Tomorrow: Delivering the
Navy Canada Needs – Commodore K.E.
Williams, Assistant Chief of the Maritime
Staff Canada
Neptune and Venus: On the Edge of
Tomorrow – Dr. Chris Barnes, Professor
Emeritus, University of Victoria, Earth &
Ocean Sciences
The Pacifi c Ocean Shelf Tracking Array
(POST): Biology on the Edge of Tomorrow –
Dr. David Welch, President, Kintama
Research Corporation
Oceans 2008 Quebec City – Dr. Ferial
El-Hawary, BH Engineering Systems
International Collaboration on
Ocean Technology Projects
Sponsored by Industry Canada
10:15 a.m. – 11:55 a.m.
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Meeting Room 15
This session will focus on challenges and successes
in creating cross border private sector and research
institution partnerships to deliver ocean technology
solutions for private and public sector clients.
Wednesday, October 3, 10:15AM – 12:00PM
Room: Meeting Room 10
VAN.14 Ocean Observatories – Cabled
Chairs: Hazell, N.; Bannon, R.
10:15AM 070430-018 – The U.S. National Science
Foundation’s Ocean Observatories
Initiative at Preliminary Design
Holly Given, Susan Banahan, Stuart Williams
10:35AM 070430-032 – Implementing a New
Paradigm in Ocean Observing: A View
from the COOLroom
Oscar Schofi eld, Scott Glenn,
Robert Chant, Josh Kohut,
Janice McDonnell
10:55AM 070522-002 – Development and Installation
of Networked Undersea Measurement
Systems Using the Advanced Telecom
Computing Architecture (ATCA)
John Walrod
Wednesday, October 3, 10:15AM – 12:00PM
Room: Meeting Room 11
10.13 Vehicle Design/Sub Surface and Profi ling
Chairs: Casper, A.; Bachmayer, R.
10:15AM 070531-003 – Traction Properties of the
Wheels of an Underwater Crawler on
Different Soils
Christoph Waldmann, Lutz Richter
10:35AM 070514-047 – A Vehicle for Science and
Exploration – Bringing Offshore Industry
Advances and Experience to the
Oceanographic Community
Brent Evers, Justin Manley
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