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MTS '92 "Global Ocean Partnership" Set For

Washington, D.C.

The Marine Technology Society show, "MTS '92: Global Ocean Part- nership," is a conference and exhibi- tion geared to address major domes- tic and international ocean issues.

The show, scheduled to open for registration Saturday Oct. 17 and end Thursday Oct. 22 with a golf tournament, will be held at the

Washington Sheraton Hotel in

Washington, D.C.

The MTS exhibit hall, which will be open from Monday, Oct. 19 through Wednesday, Oct. 21, will feature more than 200 exhibitors displaying a broad spectrum of prod- ucts and services.

Featuring more than 70 techni- cal sessions and more than 250 pa- pers scheduled to be presented, the

MTS technical conference portion attempts to address the educational needs of a variety of professionals.

The eight different technical ses- sion tracks attendees can follow in- clude: Global Resources; Global

Sensing; Global Infrastructure; Glo- bal Issues; Global Engineering-1;

Global Engineering-2; Fish Behav- ior & Gear Selectivity Workshop; and Additional Sessions. The over- all technical committee chairperson is Dr. Sylvia A. Earle, Deep Ocean

Engineering, Inc.

All technical sessions start at 9 a.m. on Monday Oct. 19 and end on

Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 5 p.m.

A sampling of the topics to be tackled, and the chairmen for each respective track includes:

Global Resources (Calvert

Room): oil spill response technolo- gies, pollution environmental indi- cators and oil spill damage assess- ment strategies. Track chairman:

Dr. Rainer Engelhardt, vice presi- dent, R&D, MSRC.

Global Sensing (Woodley

Room): physical oceanography, glo- bal data sets and their uses, and instrumentation. Track co-chair- men: Dr. W. Stanley Wilson, as- sistant administrator NOAA, Na- tional Ocean Service; Eugene M.

Russin, director, program evalua- tion NOAA, Office of Ocean and

Earth Sciences.

Global Infrastructuref Eisenhow- er Room): electronic charting, ves- sel traffic service, and data informa- tion services. Track co-chairmen:

Millington Lockwood, deputy,

USGS-NOAA Joint Office for Map- ping and Research; Luther Bivins, project manager, MRJ, Inc.

Global Issues (Roosevelt Room): marine education, OPA 90 and

Marpol regulations, and mitigation and adaption response strategies.

Track co-chairmen: Lee Stevens, staff director, Council on Ocean Af- fairs, Joint Oceanographic Institu- tion; Ms. Lynn Carter Hanson, special assistant for global change,

Graduate School of Oceanography,

University of Rhode Island.

Global Engineering-1 (Atrium 1): submersibles, advanced marine vehicles and salvage and diving.

Global Engineering-2 (Ken- nedy Room): new generation of oceanographic ships and shipyards, new shipboard equipment, and ropes: new developments in design and testing. Tracks co-chairmen:

Richard M. Shamp, president,

ESA, Inc.; Herbert Herrmann, deputy assistant, commander for oceans facilities, Naval Facilities En- gineering Command.

Additional Sessions (Lania Ste. 1): offshore structures and materi- als and improving techniques for technology exchange.

Fish Behavior & Gear Selec- tivity Workshop (Lanai Ste. 2): groundfish trawling and responsible fishing.

The social schedule for the show will give suppliers and attendees the opportunity to meet in a less formal atmosphere. An Early Bird

Reception on Sunday, Oct. 18 in the exhibit hall at the Sheraton Wash- ington Hotel, is at 6:30 p.m.

On Monday Oct. 19 at 5 p.m. the

MTS '92 Technology Reception will feature the "World Without Suns"

Nikon exhibit, which was sponsored by the National Geographic Society.

On Tuesday, Oct. 20 at noon, the

President's Award Luncheon will be where MTS administered awards are presented for significant indi- vidual and organizational achieve- ment. Tuesday night at 7 p.m. is the

MTS '92 Night at the Navy Mu- seum.

The MTS social calendar wraps up with a golf tournament on Thurs- day, Oct. 22, starting at 8:30 a.m.

For more information on MTS '92, contact: J. Spargo & Associates,

Inc., 4400 Fair Lakes Court, Fairfax,

Va. 22033. Tel: (703) 631-6200; FAX: (703)818-9177.

MTS '92 Exhibitors

Anderaa Instruments Inc.

Acoustic Transducers, Inc.

Age Instruments, Inc.

Alden Electronics Inc.

Alec Electronics Co., Ltd.

Alupower, Inc.

American Geophysical Union

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Applied Microsystems LTC

ASCE

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