The National Oceanography Centre, Southampton and the Chelsea Technologies Group are pleased to announce an open FerryBox and Ship of Opportunity meeting.

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Announcement and Call for Papers and Posters - Closing date is 1 August  2008

The meeting will take place at NOCS, UK on Monday 29  and Tuesday 30 September 2008.

This forum will allow those interested in FerryBox and Ship of Opportunity Systems, whether science users, engineers, instrument developers and ship owners and operators, to present current work and exchange ideas.

The sessions over the 2 days will include:

• Local and global studies

• System structure

• Data management and quality control

• Sensor development - particularly for pH and pCO2

Talks will be kept short to allow as many as possible to present their work.  Coffee breaks will allow plenty of time for attendee discussions.

Poster Session On Monday 29th  the meeting will be followed by a poster session hosted by Chelsea Technologies Group Ltd.  This will be followed by a dinner in the dining area at NOCS.

The cost of the meeting will be £65 to cover expenses of coffee breaks, two lunches and the evening dinner with wine.  

Scientific Content To discuss the scientific content of the meeting please contact David Hydes (djh@noc.soton.ac.uk)

We are seeking presentations for this event. Please complete the Registration Form to confirm your attendance, and presentation(s) oral and or poster.  

Attendees List (1st July 08)

Hotel Information 

Agenda, and Travel information to come.

Talks already confirmed include:

Bengt Karlson et al. -  Swedish Meteorological & Hydrological Institute
FerryBox System on the Gdynia-Karlskona route in the Southern Baltic proper - system description and preliminary results.     

Gerasimos Korres - Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR)
A data assimilation system for the Aegean Sea hydrodynamics using FerryBox data.    

Seppo Kaitala - Finnish Institute of Marine Research
Real time and long term observations with ferrybox system on board FINNMAID ferry

Tobias Steinhoff - IFM-GEOMAR
Inter-comparison of pCO2 instruments - classical versus new methods.

Jesus Gago - IEO 
Underway Measurements in the Iberian upwelling Region  

Chris Balfour/John Howarth - Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory  
Irish Sea Ferrybox

Urmas Lips -Estonian Maritime Academy 
Mesoscale variability in the Gulf of Finland as revealed by FerryBox measurements

Colijn Franciscu - GKSS 
FerryBox as integral part of coastal observatories
(with F. Schroeder and W. Petersen)

Wilhelm Petersen - GKSS 
Latest FerryBox results from the North Sea

Tobias Boehme - 4H-Jena
4H FerryBox - automatic & remote controlled measurements for ships of opportunity, with special aspects to antifouling & data quality.  

Ute Schuster UEA
The North Atlantic CO2 monitoring system

David Mills - CEFAS
Introducing EMECO - European Marine Ecosystem Observatory

Kai Sorensen - NIVA      
The NIVA  5 ship FerryBox fleet

Friedhelm Schroeder - GKSS    
The pocket FerryBox

Roger Proctor - POL & University of Tasmania
Ships of Opportunity in The Australian Integrated Marine Observing System

Nick Hardman-Mountford - PML
Carbon-OPS a real time ocean CO2 monitoring system

Cynthia Dumousseaud - NOCS 
Underway high accuracy and precision measurements of pH 

Justin Dunning – Chelsea Technologies Group
Towed and in-line sensor systems for Ships of Opportunity

Hans W Paerl - Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
FerryMon: Assessing Human and climatically-driven ecological change in North Carolina (USA) coastal waters

David Hydes - NOCS
The Swire SNOMS Project round the world CO2 science

Matt Mowlem - NOCS
Micro Sensors 

Alicia Lavin  - IEO
The IBI ROOS System

Akira Harashima - National Institute of Environmental Studies (Japan) 
Variations of N, P, Si nutrients and HAB outbreaks revealed by the marine monitoring using ferries.

Ravinder Bhatia  - The Scholar Ship
Oceanography from The Scholar Ship

Talks to be confirmed include:

Karen Edwards - Met Office 
Herman Ridderinkhof - NIOZ 
Tim Smyth - PML
Stefan Marx - Contros Systems & Solutions