Recruitment and onboarding

When initiating engagement with a recruited vessel, it is important to include information about your program motivations and process. Some of these items may include (but are not limited to) the following:  

• Your program's website
• Links to equipment checks such as the one linked here
• Link to the video produced by the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) about what installing a logger means
• Information on use cases (see the Use Cases section for examples)
• Links to the DCDB, Seabed2030, or IHO sites to provide context on international goals and accomplishments

If possible, confirming vessel interest with a video or phone call, or in-person meeting can help to ensure everybody is on the same page about what it takes to be involved in this project. Once interest is confirmed you may want to send the following:

• An MOU or Letter of Agreement Agreement 
• Metadata worksheet (one per vessel)
• Offsets worksheet (one per vessel)
• Request for address to ship logger OR a time and place to meet and install the logger

Examples of each of these can be found in the Templates section