EAGER Proposal: The construction, calibration and field testing of new devices for measuring fluid flow at seafloor hydrothermal vent sites

pi已经申请了探索性研究（EAGER）的早期概念拨款，用于构建、校准和现场测试新设备，以对海底热液喷口的高温和漫流进行离散测量。本研究的最终目标是构建、测试和提供可用于ROV或潜水平台海底热液系统研究的常规设备。π吗?美国计划在两艘游轮上对这些新设备进行实地测试。这些巡航将使PI？在潜水和ROV平台上测试这些设备。此外，PI？S使用上一代设备收集了该区域的流体流动和热通量数据，从而为比较测量提供了机会。通过确定设备在这些简短现场环境中的效用和局限性，PI？在申请资金将这些设备作为整个现场项目的一部分之前，S将能够在必要时完善设计。更广泛的影响一套强大的，易于使用，易于维护的设备测量海底热液系统的流体流动具有广泛的意义，这些过程的多学科，综合调查。这项研究将支持一名女博士生完成她的学位。在此资助下进行的研究将在会议上展示，纳入课堂教学，并发表在同行评审的文献中。

The PIs have requested an EArly-Concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER to construct, calibrate, and field test new devices for making discrete measurements of high-temperature and diffuse flow at seafloor hydrothermal vents. The eventual goal of this research is to construct, test, and make available devices that can be used routinely in studies of seafloor hydrothermal systems from either ROV or submersible platforms. The PI?s plan to field test the new devices on two cruises. These cruises will enable the PI?s to test the devices on both submersible and ROV platforms. Moreover, the PI?s have collected fluid flow and heat flux data from this area with previous generation of devices, hence providing the opportunity for comparative measurements. By determining the utility as well as the limitations of the devices in these abbreviated field environments, the PI?s will be able to perfect the designs if necessary before requesting funding to use these devices as part of a full field program. Broader ImpactsHaving a suite of robust, easy to use, ease to maintain devices for measuring fluid flow in seafloor hydrothermal systems has broad-ranging implications for multidisciplinary, integrated investigations of these processes. The research will support one female Ph.D. student to the completion of her degree. The research performed under this grant will be presented at meetings, incorporated into classroom teaching, and published in peer reviewed literature.