The Decision Makers Point of View K' Lochte

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The Decision Makers Point of View(K. Lochte)

• The main aims are to
• maintain a modern European research fleet
• use it most effectively
• facilitate state of the art technological
  development and capacity building

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Be aware of..

• The European fleet is a consortium of different
  national fleets with national funding and
  different organisational structures.
• There are national priorities, prides and
  demands.
• -gt We can not change this and have to adapt to
  it.
• -gtHowever, all nations recognise the high costs
  in maintaining a modern research fleet and seek
  to reduce the financial burden.

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The German Research Vessels (global, oceanic and
regional)
Modernisation
30 years service
replacement
Out of service
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RVs Polarstern, Meteor, Sonne, Merian
Areas of Operation of German Research Vessels
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Cruises in different regions In
total 9543 days (2000-2005)
Pacific
Indic
North Sea Baltic Sea
Antarctic
Arctic
Mediterranean Black Sea Red Sea
North Atlantic
Atlantic (without NAtlantic)
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Procedure for Application and Logistic Support
for German Research Vessels

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Large Sea-Going Infrastructure-gtneed to be
exchangeable between ships-gtneed adequate
technical support (hardware and manpower)-gtneed
to be considered in the evaluation and in the
logistic planning
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To maintain a modern European Research Fleet ..

• We need a high level gremium that advises on the
  development of the European Fleet, including
  large sea going equipment
• -gt this provides international support for
  nationally funded infrastructure and input to
  ESFRI
• For operations in remote areas we need to
  consider shared ships (bi- or multinational
  operation)
• -gt develop guidelines and model contracts

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To use it most effectively

• harmonise the application and evaluation
  procedures (structure and timing). They must be
  comparable and accepted by the partner
  institutions (OFEG, ERVO).
• -gt development of common standards and forms for
  applications and of evaluation criteria.
• improve and extend the logistic planning
  including the large sea-going equipment.
• -gt data base and logistics software
• open the ships for use by partners and regulate
  the financial aspects (e.g. use of large
  sea-going equipment).
• -gt bartering and/or charter, develop European
  agreements further.

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To devlop technology and build capacity

• Equip (selected) ships with uniform technical
  capacities to handle large sea going equipment
• Harmonise the technical support on board
• Training of technical personnel and students
  (continuation of floating university)
• Develop new sensors and payloads (exchangeabel
  between ships and equipment)

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Germany

• Has presently one of the largest European
  research fleets and we aim to maintain it.
• Presently all ship time is extremely overbooked.
  There is no capacity to open our ships for new
  users, we can only improve the use of the ships
  (less transit) and offer places on the ships if a
  cruise is not fully booked.
• We are interested in developing mechanisms for
  shared ships in remote areas or improve the
  exchange.
• We would welcome a commonly agreed evaluation
  proceedure and harmonisation of time schedules.