Energy and Power for Remote Instrumentation Workshop | Edinburgh 20 May

Where? Edinburgh @ BGS Murchison House

When? 20 May 2010

How much will its cost? no registration fee

Co–Chairs: Gwyn Griffiths and Mike Rose

Call for Participation

The Technology Theme of the NERC Oceans 2025 programme holds occasional workshops on areas of broad interest to the engineers and technologists in the Centres contributing to Oceans 2025, but also to others in NERC. Previous workshops have been on Small AUVs and Gliders and on Communications. The theme of the forthcoming workshop — ‘Energy and Power for Remote Instrumentation’ — is of widespread interest to the NERC Technology community, spanning batteries for autonomous underwater vehicles to use of renewable energy to power instruments in the Polar Regions. These workshops are not ‘death by PowerPoint’, but rather an opportunity for technical discussion and the sharing of lessons learned among practitioners.

This Call for Participation is to seek topics and contributors to the workshop. A programme will be constructed around the responses. Topics might include:

• Batteries
• Primary, secondary, performance in service
• Battery management, “fuel gauging”
• Freighting, disposal, recycling
• Energy from the environment
• Wind, wave, solar, thermal …
• Fuel cells

Registration

If you are interested in attending, please email the following details to Demelza.Mundy@noc.soton.ac.uk   by Friday April 30.

• Name and contact details
• Topic(s) of interest
• Topic(s) which you would be prepared to introduce / contribute to a discussion

A programme and further details will be sent to those that express an interest.

Key contacts to circulate Call for Participation

Gwyn Griffiths, NOCS                     
Mike Rose, BAS
Chris Gallienne, PML                        
Keith Jackson SAMS                         
Bernie McConnell, SMRU                        
Mike Smithson, POL                               
Russ Evans, BGS                               
David McNeil, CEH