Meeting 26: 2 December 2021
Meeting Minutes
Date: 02 December 2021; 10:00 – 10:35 CT; via Zoom [COVID]
Attendees: Gary Acton, Carlos Alvarez Zarikian, Jeanine Ash, Peter Blum, Susan Boehm, Laurel Childress, Lisa Crowder, Emily Estes, Sandra Herrmann, David Houpt, Brad Julson, David Kratz, Leah LeVay, Nick Logan, Aaron Mechler, Rick Menzel, Beth Novak, Chieh Peng, Vinny Percuoco, Katerina Petronotis, Johanna Suhonen, Trevor Williams; the JR [participants unclear]
1) Welcome to new externals
Welcome to our new external members Jeanine Ash, Bill Gilhooly, Jack Longman and Elizabeth Trembath-Reichert.
And thank you to Jeff Ryan for agreeing to stay on with us.
2) Coulometer update
Subsequent to the September 2021 meeting, we determined that there are three different parts used in the CM5015 are no longer available from their distributors. While they have a supply of all three parts, they can no longer guarantee support for the CM5015. In many ways, this simplifies this issue; we must now move forward with the purchase of CM5017 coulometers for use on the vessel.
Two CM5017 units were purchased and have arrived at JRSO but the power conditioners were shipped separately and have not arrived. Once the coulometers are up and running, developers will need to ensure data from these units can be retrieved and stored in LORE. No new method development should be required.
Anticipated delivery to the ship as early as Expedition 392, however this timeline is unlikely and timing may be closer to Expedition 390.
3) HF/Safety documentation update
There is a great deal of content in the Laboratory Notebooks, however these are not accessible to anyone external. And there is more information there than is necessary to help familiarize scientists with our shipboard procedures. There is also a flow chart in development for the overall process of requesting, planning for, and using HF shipboard.
Decisions need to be made about which content to migrate from the internal server to the external (https://wiki.iodp.tamu.edu/).
The Shipboard Lab Safety Policy also needs to be linked to the external wiki.
Changes will be made shipboard during Expedition 391 and migrated to shore at the end of the expedition.
4) Expedition review: 396
Scientist recommends: we performed a full test run with play-core material before leaving port to identify potentially hazardous situations. I would recommend following this routine in future expeditions, if time permits.
LWG RECOMMENDATION: TAS incorporate this (when/where possible) into onboarding for scientists using HF
5) Next meeting
After Expedition 392, likely sometime in late April/early May 2022