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Final
Program Main | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 Dear Workshop Participants and Browsers: A lively ONR/MTS Buoy Workshop 2006 took place March 14-16 at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. Over 90 attendees participated in the 2-1/2 day program and enjoyed most interesting site tours. The Speaker Program consisted of 23 presentations with summarizing Panel Sessions, and an IOOS Industry Information Exchange Forum. Despite a lower number of talks compared with the record 2004 Buoy Workshop there seemed to be not enough time for discussions, exchange of experience, and visiting the exhibitor displays. We toured the Buoy Shop of the Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG), the Haynes Coastal Engineering Laboratory, and the Offshore Technology Research Center, all part of Texas A&M University with its large campus, home to almost 50,000 students. The catastrophic hurricane and tsunami events in 2004 and 2005
focused a lot of the workshop’s attention on tsunami detecting
and weather monitoring buoy systems. The weather buoys of the National
Data Buoy Center play an important role in hurricane tracking and
sea state and wind monitoring. An IOOS Industry Information Exchange
Forum was organized to focus on the need to build over thirty new
tsunami detection systems for the US waters, to monitor both in
the Atlantic and Pacific deep ocean seismic waves before they become
deadly surges in shallow water. These oceanographic buoy systems
are becoming a vital life saving tool of significant value for many
coastal regions around the world. We gratefully acknowledge the partial funding support from the Office of Naval Research, and help with publicity and insurance coverage by the Marine Technology Society. Special thanks go to Dr. Norm Guinasso and John Walpert from the Geochemical and Environmental Research Group (GERG), aided by Maureen Reap from the College of Geosciences at Texas A&M University for very essential local support. Their efforts and help made it possible to have the workshop at the University on rather short notice (The original effort to have the workshop in Gulfport, Mississippi, had to be stopped due to the devastation by hurricane Katrina). A CD with the workshop program, the speakers’ abstracts and presentation materials, exhibitor’s information, and a participant’s list is being assembled to be sent to all attendees, the CD will also be on sale for $25. Sincerely,
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