Ship Operations: R/V Knorr

伍兹霍尔海洋研究所（WHOI）为2005年的R/V Knorr业务申请资金，以支持由国家科学基金会资助的科学研究。KNORR在2005年有206天的时间表，所有这些都是支持国家科学基金会资助的研究项目。这是一份为期五年的合作协议，协议中每一年的资金将根据支持nsf资助的研究的海上天数进行协商。本提案所要求的船舶支持是NSF研究项目海上实地考察所必需的。这些项目已经过严格的科学和知识价值评估。奖项授予过程的高度竞争性质确保了非常高的智力水平。2005年计划在诺尔进行的研究项目所获得的知识和发现将增进我们对海洋的了解，并解决一系列重要的科学问题。Knorr将为研究人员提供设备和熟练的船上人员，以安全有效地在海上进行科学研究。Knorr支持的研究项目对于了解地球气候及其随时间的变化，对比海洋和大陆断层系统之间的地震破裂过程，确定控制南大洋水团形成和赤道太平洋浮游植物生长的过程，以及了解海底扩展中心海洋地壳的形成非常重要。这些智力上的努力将继续扩大我们对海洋的认识，激发新的问题，并在未来几年证实科学理论，造福整个社会。海洋学考察在许多方面是大学课堂的延伸。knor分公司通常由各种各样的人员组成，包括高级和初级科学家、博士后研究人员、工程师、技术人员以及研究生和本科生。这些巡游是一次非凡的教育经历，让所有参与者接触到新的想法，通过观察和实践教授基本的科学原理，并不可避免地提出问题，激发人们对海洋如何运作的新思考。在过去的几年里，人们越来越意识到将这门科学带入课堂和公众的集体责任，这导致了分享这些科学发现的新途径的发展。巡航网站的概念非常有效地将实时图像、数据和全国各地学校的科学家与学生之间的双向交流传递给教室。这有效地将海上体验从少数参与者的单腿扩展到全国各地教室中的数百甚至数千名学生，以及公众。有几家邮轮公司正计划使用这个工具，通过基于网络的方法在其本国机构或通过社区组织维护的网站（例如RIDGE2000）展示它们的数据。WHOI网站（http://www.whoi.edu）率先向公众展示研究考察和航海项目的结果（例如潜水和发现网站：http://science.whoi.edu/DiveDiscover），他们正在继续开发使用WHOI网站的新方法，向更多的受众传达航海研究的激动人心和重要性。

Project Summary The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) requests funding for R/V Knorr operations in 2005 in support of scientific research funded by the National Science Foundation. The KNORR has a 206 day schedule in 2005, and all are in support of NSF funded research programs. This is a five year cooperative agreement, and funding for each year of the agreement will be negotiated and is dependent on the number of days at sea in support of NSF-funded research.Intellectual Merit The ship support requested in this proposal is required for the at-sea fieldwork for NSF research projects. These projects have been rigorously evaluated for scientific and intellectual merit. The highly competitive nature of the award granting process ensures a very high level of intellectual merit. The knowledge gained and the discoveries made by the research programs scheduled for Knorr in 2005 will enhance our understanding of the oceans and address a broad range of important scientific questions. The Knorr will provide researchers with the equipment, and skilled shipboard personnel, required to safely and productively pursue their scientific endeavors at sea. Broad Impact Statement The research programs supported by Knorr will be important in understanding the Earth's climate and how it changes over time, in ontrasting earthquake rupture processes between oceanic and continental fault systems, determining the processes that control water mass formation in the Southern Ocean and phytoplankton growth in the equatorial Pacific, and in understanding the formation of oceanic crust at sea floor spreading centers. These intellectual endeavors will continue to broaden our understanding of the oceans, spur new questions, and confirm scientific theory for years to come, benefiting society at large. An oceanographic expedition is in many respects an extension of the University classroom. Knorr legs are typically staffed by a diverse mix of senior and junior scientists, post-doctoral investigators, engineers, technicians and graduate and undergraduate students. These cruises are an extraordinary educational experience that expose all of these participants to new ideas, teach fundamental scientific principles through observation and practice, and inevitably raise questions that stimulate new thinking about how the oceans work. Over the past several years an increased awareness of collective responsibility to bring this science into the classroom and to the general public has resulted in the development of new avenues to share these scientific findings. The cruise web site concept has been very effective in reaching the classroom with real-time images, data and two-way communication between scientists and students in schools across the country. This effectively extends the sea-going experience from the handful of participants on a single leg to hundreds or even thousands of students in classrooms across the country, as well as to the general public. Several cruises are planning to use this tool to present their data through web-based approaches either at their home institution or through web sites maintained by community organizations (e.g. RIDGE2000). The WHOI web site (http://www.whoi.edu) has pioneered efforts to present the results of research expeditions and sea-going projects to the general public (e.g. the Dive and Discover web site: http://science.whoi.edu/DiveDiscover), and they are continuing to develop new ways of using the WHOI web site to convey the excitement and importance of sea-going research to a larger audience.