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June 7, 2024 - Meeting Notes

📃Meeting Notes:

CHC2024 Student Travel
- Issues, concerns, etc?

2025 – Mapping Challenge
- Topic? AI in Chart Production?
- Timeline? Fall 2024?

Fall 2024 COMREN Meeting –
- Approximately when to hold the meeting? October / November?
- Where? Ottawa?
- Purpose is to start building an NSERC Alliance Application with the CHS

General updates on projects, initiatives, etc., for 2024 and beyond (Discussion)
- CoP – MEOPAR funded – will need to reapply – Not for Profit… Summer / Fall
- Future funding options – NSERC Alliance / Create / etc.
- Summer School – 2025 – CHA funded?
  - MI / Holyrood as a host? Denis could help organize
    - Maybe in the Fall would work well
  - May/June worked well for grad students and industry and a few ugrad
  - Fall was good for industry
  - Limited onsite people to 14/15 – due to vessel limitations – but had additional people join online
  - Bilingual classes were complicated – CHC will use an AI app for translation – How was it?
  - Rotating around the institutions
  - BCIT host: Industry is interested in short courses

Meeting Notes: October 7, 2024

📽️Meeting Video: Fall 2024 COMREN Meeting-20241015_110153-Meeting Recording.mp4

📃Meeting Minutes:

*New* MEOPAR 24/25 CoP application status
- - COMREN in-person meeting/workshop? Ottawa, December 9 – 12, 2024: ArcticNet’s Arctic Change 2024 (fourwaves.com)
  - New Co-Chair
2025 International Hydrographic and Hydrospatial School?
- - MI: The Launch – Mid to late June
  - CIDCO: Cat-B in Rimouski – June/July
  - Decide Fall 2024
2025 Student Conference Travel
- - 2025: US Hydro March 2025 (thsoa.org)
  - 2025: ICC 2025 International Cartographic Association (icaci.org)
  - 2025: CIDCO – April 14-16 in Rimouski, QC
  - 2025: SaGES – BCIT June 15-19 in Vancouver, BC (downtown campus)
    - June 16 – Student posters, etc.
    - Max 100 people
  - 2025: Vancouver Mariners Workshop 2025 Jan. 15-19 – Shipping Federation of Canada
  - 2025: Lakebed 2030 Conference https://www.nmc.edu/marine-center/lakebed-2030-conference.html
2025 Student Mapping Challenge
- - Turn it into a course module for students in the academic term
  - Integrate with research projects – enhanced projects
  - Increase the scope – open the topics to Hydro Innovation – Student-driven topics
  - Timeline re: students
  - CHA Bursary connection –
  - Connection to a capstone project
CHA Bursary connection – Need more ocean mapping applications
- Maybe change the application date
COMREN Research Project Support
COMREN Education support and training opportunities
- NSERC CREATE – 2025
COMREN Members – expanding the membership – UofC, UofT, etc.
- Clusters of membership
Any other business?
- Add COMREN name to publications.
- International Hydrographic Review

December 15, 2024 - Meeting Notes

📽️Meeting Video Recording: COMREN – December 2024 Meeting-20241216_143141-Meeting Recording.mp4

📃Minutes:

CoP Overview and In-person meeting dates.
- COP Goals (Oct, 2024 – Sep, 2025):
  - In-Person COMREN Workshop: Feb 11-12 – Ottawa
    - Check the times
    - Venue: UOttawa?
    - Remote participation
    - Update of COMREN Strategic Plan to align with MEOPAR Strategic Science Fund Program priorities
    - DFO/CHS – NSERC Alliance Application
    - Education and Research Theme areas
  - 2025 Conference Travel and Student Mapping Challenge for 2026
  - International Summer School on Hydrographic Surveys
  - Supporting the CHS Community Hydrography Projects
  - Support other projects and proposals
Student Conference travel for 2025 – One or two events ($28,704)
- CIDCO More info coming soon April 2025
- SaGES https://sages2025.xyz/ June 2025
- ICC2025 https://icc2025.com/ Aug 2025
- USHydro March 17-20 2025 – wrong fiscal –
  - CHA and Industry Support? QPS, ICC, Caris?
  - BCIT, NSCC,
  - How much $$ would we be moving? About half
  - USD…
Website – Members Area for meeting notes
- Share the registration link
New Vice-Chair – Dan Arsenault
AOB:
- UBC – Dean of Science: Connect to COMREN

COMREN MOU

https://oceanmapping.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/MOU_COMREN_signed.PDF-compressed.pdf

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2026 Hydrospatial Mapping Challenge

2024 Speed Mapping Challenge

Benthic ecosystem mapping for improved understanding of fisheries stock dynamics on Georges Bank, offshore Nova Scotia

Enabling MASS Situational Awareness Through Autonomous Monitoring of the St-Lawrence Seaway Using Trusted Crowdsourced Bathymetry