July 12, 2005 Caribbean Project Conference call

Participants:

ASL: hutt, derr, sharrat, gyure, lapore

Golden: presgrave, mcnamara, odum, leeds, Benz, mccarthy

Reston: weaver, leith

Menlo: croker

Items for discussion:

1\. Progress so far on:

site contacts

Grand Cayman moved to Jamaica, ISTI

Check on network ownership

> Honduras and Panama (will attend conference)
>
> Turks and Caicos
>
> (PRSN to Terry Smith Dept of disaster management)

Cuba?

> Jean Weaver will approach state.
>
> Need info on work and equipment, weight, pictures

implementation plan and budget

final today.

fact sheet

USGS internal review (earle, dewey, leeds, wald)

forward on to NOAA, Jeff Ladouce

weaver, devine

equipment procurement

11 stations ordered

hold off on full backup (22)

change delivery to ASL.

VSAT telemetry

Still reviewing options

Q330 hooked up to SCPC dish.

Ketchum will work with Lapore on mountain air software.

MOUs -- do we make a statement on VSAT licensing.

Harley- wants a split system. Never lose whole network.

Multiple providers.

ASL -- wants to operate own hub. IDirect (TDMA) \$100K

PTWC has GSN hub

SCPC hub for \$25K --

Could operate a hub for NEIC

Leeds -- option to aquire a hub for .25 million dollars.

G2 provider

2\. The Caribbean Geological conference

a\. meeting agenda

Wednesday July 20 Network Capability Poster, McNamara et al.

Thursday July 21: Seismic monitoring in the Caribbean

Morning: Session Introduction: USGS Perspective, mcnamara

Regional network reports for remainder of the morning

Afternoon: mcnamara

> USGS Caribbean Project: How, What & Why of expansion, needs,
> opportunities, siting/installation requirements, Coordination, Data
> flow, maintenance
>
> Data sharing,

Hutt

> Engineering issues
>
> ASL training for partners

McNamara/Odum

Station siting requirements

b\. Key issues for the USGS to cover at the conference

1.  host/partner contacts

2\. Level of partner expertise (people, training and timeline)

3\. siting (people and timeline)

4\. permitting (people and timeline)

b\. permit should cover, vsat dish, transmission of data

5\. infrastructure (tasking, local and/or USGS)

6\. partner concerns.

a\. need to accomadate data distribution to partners

ask at meeting for format types?

Direct feed from Q330.

Ownership -- GSN owns everything.

NEIC concerned with big events. Do not intend to cut into regions.

Stipends for station maintenance

GSN pays to local O&M

Harley not opposed

7\. siting and installation timeline (done by sept 2006)

c\. Information packages for local partners (on WWW).

Session Agenda

> List of Participants
>
> Carib project Implementation Plan
>
> McMillan Vault OFR

Caribbean Project draft fact sheet

Station Requirements checklist

USGS Contact information

Tarr Maps

TA vault design?

McNamara et al Poster

3\. First site evaluation trip planning, after Aug. 17

general 1175

Location of first trip

> trip to Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos and Dominican Republic.

west indies

> Latin America (Honduras, Panama)

Cuba?

Special paperwork required?

4\. other

minutes on WWW

who owns the equipment, including spares?

Working groups

1\. Vsat issues

2 providers

2.  vault/Station design

Jean Comments

> Fact Sheet -- share data with NOAA. We need a piece from NOAA
>
> Send to people on the call,
>
> David green at NOAA
>
> Jeff Ladouce at NOAA
>
> Power -- backup system and AC requirement.
>
> Equipment list and weight for Cuba station
>
> Travel issues: no more than 5 people at once.

John McMillan

Vault construction and Installation

Action items:

> 1\. Send out fact sheet for NOAA comments (dan)
>
> 2\. Distribute plan to carib group (dan)
>
> 3\. Make sure everyone has a valid passport. (dan)
>
> 4\. 1175 why are people essential for trips (dan, jill)
>
> 5\. equipment ownership, inventory? (jean)
>
> 6\. determine status of in place MOUs? (jean)
>
> 7\. establish working groups on vsat and vault construction (dan)

VSAT -- hutt, derr sharrat, alena, ketchum, mcmillan

Station infrastructure -- mcmillan, gyuere, carver, mcnamara,

8\. check on ownership of grand cayman network

9\. Check with State department on Cuba station (weaver)

10\. equiment list and weights for cuba station (odum, mcnamara)