Okeanos Explorer Participation Assessment

Okeanos Explorer Participation Assessment

OMB Control NO. 0648-0748
Expiration Date: 01/31/2020

Okeanos Explorer Participation
Assessment
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Assessment
As the NOAA OER's operations onboard NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer are constantly
evolving, the evaluation of your experience as part of the telepresence-enabled team (ship
and shore) is essential to how we move forward and operate in the future. With each topic,
please consider what you thought went well and what may have been challenging, and
please feel free to provide suggestions for future operations. Individual assessments will be
included in a comprehensive assessment of the expedition and help guide operations for the
next field season.

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1) Affiliation
Your answer

2) Location during the cruise
Your answer

Pre-Cruise Planning and Preparation
3) How would you rate your experience during the pre-cruise
planning and preparation period?
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Needs
Significant
Improvement

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5
Excellent

4) Please provide any comments about your pre-cruise
experience or suggestions for improvement.
Comments may relate to cruise planning, science and operational meetings, training sessions,

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overall guidance, or any other information you would like to share. We are particularly interested in
learning about how you think we could improve our engagement of the science team.

Your answer

Conducting operations via telepresence
5) How would you rate your experience during the cruise?
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2

3

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5

Needs
Significant
Improvement

Excellent

6) Did you feel operations were collaborative in nature?
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2

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5

Needs
Significant
Improvement

Excellent

7) Please provide any comments about your experience or
suggestions to improve operations.
Comments may relate to training & guidance, use of new technologies, technical/operational
support, daily operations/science planning, situational awareness, execution/efficiency, staffing,
operational tempo & schedule, communication, perception of shore-based experience overall, or
any other information you would like to share. How could we have improved your experience? We
are also interested to learn how you felt the community based model worked. Did you feel there
was a good balance of objectives and that the cruise was collaborative?

Your answer

Data products and information management/dissemination
8) How would you rate the following Okeanos Explorer data products?

a) FTP
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5

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Needs
Significant
Improvement

Excellent

b) Real Time Video Data
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Needs
Significant
Improvement

Excellent

c) EX Instant Messaging Service
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2

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Needs
Significant
Improvement

Excellent

d) Video Annotation Software
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2

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5

Needs
Significant
Improvement

Excellent

e) SeaSketch
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2

3

4

Needs
Significant
Improvement

5
Excellent

9) Additional useful products or datasets
What data do you wish we collected or made available on shore? Are any of our products
particularly useful or not helpful? What data could we be collecting that would help characterize an
area?

Your answer

10) Please provide any comments about our data to help us
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improve our product suite.
Comments may relate to any of our current products, products we should be developing, data
processing/access/dissemination (shore vs. ship), or any other information you would like to share.
Did our products provide you with enough information to meaningfully participate in operations? Are
our data and products easy to work with as you look to conduct future exploration, research, and
management efforts? What data do you wish we collected or made available on shore? Are any of
our products particularly useful or not helpful?

Your answer

11) How would you rate data/information management and
dissemination?
1
Needs
Significant
Improvement

2

3

4

5
Excellent

12) Please provide any comments about your experience or
suggestions to improve operations.
Comments may relate to the FTP site, instant messaging & Eventlog, NavData stream, OER
animal guide, daily products, data processing/access/dissemination (shore vs. ship), or any other
information you would like to share.

Your answer

Sampling operations
13) Please provide any comments about how we could improve
our sampling operations.
We are interested in feedback on our sampling operations. Are there additional tools for sampling
that would be useful to help initial characterization of an area? Are there ways that we can replace
the need for a physical sample with a sensor or digital data? Please be aware there are physical
and staffing limitations with our operations that we cannot change including few onboard scientists
and limited physical space and facilities to process and store samples.

Your answer

Overall Experience

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14) How would you rate your overall experience during this
expedition?
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5

Needs
Significant
Improvement

Excellent

15) Please provide feedback about your overall experience and
suggestions/recommendations for future telepresence-enabled
operations. Please include perceived advantages/disadvantages
to applying telepresence to ROV operations.
Your answer

16) Is there anything else that was not covered in another
section that you would like to share? Do you have any new
ideas for our operations that you would like OER to consider
implementing? This could be something that worked well in
other operations that would be useful for OER to consider, or
something you feel is missing from our repertoire.
Your answer

17) To obtain some useful information for the development of
OER's telepresence-enabled exploration operations, please
consider answering the following questions as part of your
assessment.
Why was your work during this cruise valuable to society/the general public? Did this experience
alter your perception of conducting expeditions remotely?

Your answer

For additional feedback or information please email
EX.ExpeditionCoordinator@noaa.gov

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