August 14, 2018
Registration Day 1 and Ice-Breaker
August 15, 2018
Registration and Setup
Acknowledgement of Country
Welcome to CSIRO
Welcome to ASOF; Event outline
The case for building an Polar engineering and science community
Morning Tea
Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) – using ocean technologies to create a national research infrastructure
MNF Update: Transitioning to full year operations
RSV Nuyina Construction Update
Lunch
Spatial and temporal observations of the Antarctic marine ecosystem: the role of autonomous platforms past, present and future
The Antarctic marine environment is patchy at spatial and temporal scales. That is, there are large assemblages of biomass, collected…
Determination of the floe‐scale spatial variability of Antarctic pack-ice algal biomass using a Remotely Operated Vehicle instrumented with a hyperspectral radiometer
Antarctic pack ice serves as habitat for microalgae which contribute to Southern Ocean primary production and serve as important food…
Facilitating biological data collection from the world’s most extreme fisheries.
Australia has five commercial fishing vessels licenced to fish in Antarctic and sub-antarctic waters targeting the highly prized Antarctic toothfish,…
Autonomous Sampling devices for Marine Microbiology and eDNA analysis
In recent years novel genomic techniques such as qPCR, metagenomics and eDNA analysis have shown their utility as powerful tools…
Afternoon Tea
Utilising Fibre Optic Tow Cable Technology Now and in the Future
In recent years the Australian Antarctic Division have upgraded the Aurora Australis with an electro/optical tow cable to build upon…
Electronic Development of Long Term Passive Acoustic Monitoring Devices
The Australian Antarctic Division has developed low power electronics to receive and record continuous, long term, acoustic data sets in…
Autonomous, trace metal clean, seawater sampler: AUV integration and 12 month mooring deployment
The Southern Ocean is anaemic, with phytoplankton growth being slowed by the lack of the micronutrient iron. Phytoplankton are the…
Wrap-up Day 1
August 16, 2018
Registration and Setup
Southern Ocean clouds and aerosols measured from ships and Macquarie Island
We examine recently collected cloud observations made from the surface of the Southern Ocean using W-band cloud radar, ceilometer and…
Pushing the boundaries of acoustic observation possibilities in challenging environments
Acoustics is important in the ocean, and passive acoustic monitoring is a key part of large scale autonomous and remote…
Using waves and power efficient loggers for autonomous profiling to collect high quality high density data for increased Periods
Sustaining Oceanographic Moorings in the Southern Ocean; Engineering Design and Challenges
The continuation of IMOS (Integrated Marine Observing System) funding body in Australia has provided opportunities for the deployment of oceanographic…
Morning Tea
The engineering challenges of an autonomous underwater vehicle bound for Antarctica
To address strategic science questions about Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, the Antarctic Gateway Partnership project (AGP), a Special Research…
Lessons learnt from the long term deployment of an automated, rugged, remote photographic monitoring camera for monitoring of Antarctic Coastal processes.
There is widespread recognition of the benefits in automating procedures for the collection of scientific data, and an increasing ability…
The use of fibre optic gyroscope technology to determine underwater orientation of seafloor packages at high magnetic latitude locations
Underwater observing systems that collect information with a two or three spatial dimensions (water current vectors for example) generally measure…
Lunch
Finding Southern Ocean Data – an architecture for data discovery
The challenges involved in discovering and accessing Southern Ocean data are emblematic of the issues associated with data discovery in…
Challenges to constraining sound velocity in Antarctic Waters
Sensor data, low cost, anywhere on Earth
Cost effective retrieval of data from unattended ground-based sensors, and oceanographic drifters at polar latitudes is challenging. Deployment and maintenance…
A frame from processing multivariate Antarctic solid earth data
Freycinet Room
Autonomous observations in extreeme environments
Observations in the Southern Ocean and Antarctic waters are sparse due to remoteness and challenging sea conditions. Most observations have…
The Icefin Hybrid ROV/AUV Explores the McMurdo and Ross Ice Shelves
Icefin is a hybrid remotely operated or autonomous underwater vehicle (ROV/AUV) that is both modular and field-portable; it is essentially…
Remotely operated vehicles for visually surveying deep-water biological ecosystems
Many marine protected areas often cover large expanses of deepwater habitat that are beyond depths that are practical by other…
Wrap-up Day 2
Gala Dinner
August 17, 2018
Hydrogen for energy storage in Antarctica – lessons learnt on the technical issues of generation, storage and use
Energy for electricity generation is a very precious resource in Antarctica. The cost of transport of non-renewable fuels to Antarctica…
Advancing the state of sea ice remote sensing with new instruments
Our knowledge of the state of sea ice (particularly areal extent and concentration) undertook a quantum leap in 1978 with…
A Web Based Framework for On-Board Decision Support Tools
When conducting complex, long duration marine science operations, one of the major challenges is making sense of the vast amount…
Hydrochemistry – What’s in the water?
Hydrochemistry is the chemical analysis of seawater and is primarily focussed on salinity, dissolved oxygen, and nutrients. The determination and…
Wrap-up Day 3
Morning Tea
RV Investigator Ship Tour (Optional)
Lunch (not catered)
What’s next for ASOF?
A general and open door discussion on the planning and merits of this first ASOF conference and opportunities to engage…