Every morning, a daily meeting on the bridge is held at 0730 by the heads of departments to discuss the ship activities for that day. We ask that the chief scientist, or a representative, is present for this so that the ship can plan their activities in a way that best supports the science. This is also an opportunity to give feedback to the departments routinely throughout the cruise.
During mobilization, the Marine Technicians will create and share with you a daily plan document. Here, you can fill in your estimated operations for the day, which we will distribute around the ship. This is really helpful for our ships crew so they can plan out the day's operations and how to be best available to support the operations. This can also be distributed into the labs if you need to get schedules out to the rest of the science party.
[email protected] is for distribution of ROV related planning for upcoming dives, and goes to many email addresses on board and to our shoreside support.
[email protected] for any information you need to send to the MT’s. If you have a mapping plan, CTD sites, or other sites, we will create an ECDIS file to send to the bridge.
[email protected] will go to all the bridge officers if you need to send them information or waypoints, etc. If you have several waypoints to send, please include the MT’s and we will create an ECDIS file for the bridge to eliminate any error associated with entering the waypoints by hand.
Your feedback is incredibly important to us. Many of the resources and improvements used by the science party have been inspired and suggested by previous teams. Our goal is to make each cruise run as smoothly as possible and to support science parties in working effectively with their data.
We welcome all feedback - positive or negative. There will be an opportunity to share your thoughts during the post-cruise debriefing. In the meantime, please don’t hesitate to provide your feedback directly to the Marine Technicians onboard. Often, we can address and improve things while you’re still on the cruise.
For each dive and mapping survey, we ask that you prepare a plan that will convey the information below at a minimum, which is needed by the ship’s crew to ensure the plan can be effectively carried out.