00:23:06 Juliet Hermes SAEON South Africa: AGENDA - 13:00-13:25 Overview of SAPRI (Morris and Vichi) - 13:30-13:55 Current status, Business Plan priorities and presentation of the transformation actions (Hermes and Morris) - 5 minutes comfort break - 14:00-14:20 Q&A - 14:20-15:00 Preparatory phase - informal actions before the official starting of SAPRI 00:23:55 Juliet Hermes SAEON South Africa: Feel free to pop questions in the chat as they come into your mind! 00:46:49 Anthony Bernard: Are we planning on getting the new multibeam echosounder fitted to the Agulhas during its upcoming drydock? 00:47:59 Tammy Morris (SAWS): @Anthony - I will show that in a little bit. But thank you. 00:48:28 Anthony Bernard: 👍 00:56:29 riaolivier: First group of matrics is writing this year marine sciences as a school subject 00:56:57 Tammy Morris (SAWS): Yes - wonderful development! 01:06:53 Anthony Bernard: The new NRF-HSRC two year internship may be a good way to engage with young black students coming through the post graduate schools. 01:07:25 Tommy Bornman: Apologies, have to do the school run quick but will rejoin at 14:05 01:20:38 riaolivier: full proposal is on ALSA archive: http://alp.lib.sun.ac.za/handle/123456789/28685 01:22:57 Geoffrey Grantham: I have a few questions and comments - not sure where to come in. 01:24:10 Juliet Hermes SAEON South Africa: Come in next Geoffrey! 01:24:11 Marcello Vichi (UCT, ZA): Hi Geoffrey. You can speak after Mike 01:25:58 Tammy Morris (SAWS): @Charney - I agree completely with regards the societal benefits of artists and writers in terms of building awareness. To grab onto the momentum of Netflix and putting out African content for Africa would be a good push. 01:28:54 Charne Lavery: @Tammy great to hear it! The other good thing is that there are many models for Artists and Writers Polar Programmes, so implementation could be facilitated based on international experience. 01:29:04 Elizabeth Rudolph: I don't have a question, just a comment (mic not functional, sorry). The proposal is very comprehensive, thanks for all the hard work! My comment - I would suggest that there be a formal representation of/for early career researchers (ECRs), as this may bridge a lot of the gaps between disciplines / postgrad continuity / science communication / outreach / education etc. APECSSA, for example, can provide a supporting function in this role. 01:29:13 Juliet Hermes SAEON South Africa: Thanks Geoffrey, will certainly add SANAP PI representation as a member of the SANAP coordination committee 01:30:58 Juliet Hermes SAEON South Africa: Thanks Elizabeth, yes APEC SA is highlighted in the doc and we will certainly try to integrate further. The PDPs should also support this. 01:34:56 Juliet Hermes SAEON South Africa: @ Charne I think looking at the semester model as well! 01:42:41 Juliet Hermes SAEON South Africa: Link to business plan: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yFOJ0pmgrU9Rh1yCKNDl2fMq0740oTi6/view 01:45:42 Charne Lavery: @Juliet absolutely! Artists at sea would be a wonderful addition :) 01:46:03 Marcello Vichi (UCT, ZA): We had an artist on the dedicated winter expedition in 2017 01:47:30 Sarah Fawcett: My experience with BIOGRIP is that they do allow changes to budgetary line items in a given year - so there’s room for some horse trading related to equipment procurements timelines etc. Tommy B may have insights into this too 01:48:10 Charne Lavery: @Marcello yes and she produced a great body of work! It was difficult for her to figure out how to get there, though, and it would be wonderful to have opportunities like this more available and widely advertised. 01:50:00 Johan Pauw SAEON: Thanks and cheers all! 01:50:52 Juliet Hermes SAEON South Africa: Thanks Annie, taken that all onboard (haha) 01:51:14 Tommy Bornman: Yes, the RI will be allowed to manage their expenditure to ensure the budgets are spent. Considering the year is almost over they should have no problem with a significant roll-over to the second year, but an effort will have to be made to spend 90% of the 1st and 2nd year budget in Year 2. 01:51:15 Annie Bekker: 🤣 01:52:33 Juliet Hermes SAEON South Africa: Thanks Tommy and Sarah, With this shift in budget it will be really important to have the user fora in place quickly to prioritise plans so that they can be endorsed by the advisory committee and the money spent 01:53:53 Trevor: Apologies all, please excuse me - my turn to drive kids around... 01:54:02 Sarah Fawcett: Yep, my experience is that the powers that be really want the money spent. There are significant implications for them if it’s not spent on time 01:55:13 Anthony Bernard: Agreed that we do urgently need to get the user fora running ASAP. I might have missed this, but will these be coordinated the level of LTO-Ocean, for example, or lower down at the facility level. 01:55:30 Marcello Vichi (UCT, ZA): To see some of the arts produced on the ship https://www.katrineclaassens.com/we-came-at-a-time 02:08:55 riaolivier: do not confuse SAPRI with MARS document both on archive and should be read together 02:13:07 riaolivier: MARS http://alp.lib.sun.ac.za/handle/123456789/10219 02:13:37 Anne Treasure: Sorry, last minute, will SAPRI have any lines of reporting to SCAR? Or will this still be done through DSI and SANC? 02:16:10 Mia Wege: Thank you Marcello, Tammy, Juliet and team for organising today :) 02:16:19 Carol Jacobs: Many thanks all, have a good evening! 02:16:25 Charles vdMeden: Thank you all - very informative 02:16:29 Charne Lavery: Thanks team — all the work is much appreciated!