Potential Fields Pool Equipment Facility: A 5-Year Proposal to Support BGM-3 Gravity Data Acquisition Systems on UNOLS Vessels

该提案要求为五年的努力提供资金，以使PFPE（潜在场池设备）能够提供必要的设备和专门知识，以继续在联合国海洋和海洋法办事处的船只上获得高质量的海洋重力数据。在拟议工作的5年期间，PFPE力求：（1）为操作BGM-3重力仪维持足够的备件;（2）向联合国后勤事务处社区提供技术专门知识;（3）协调系统的操作和维护;（4）通过开发新的数据记录程序使数据格式和质量控制标准化。最后一项工作是软件开发，将满足对标准化海洋重力数据格式和海上数据质量评估的需要，但不是对海洋重力数据进行广泛后处理的工具。这一建议的一个关键产品将是出版一本？最佳实践？为联合国毒品和犯罪问题办事处社区编写的手册。在第（4）项和？最佳实践？更广泛的影响：本提案的主要影响是在标准二下，为科学家提供基础设施支持，以使用该船及其共享使用的仪器来支持他们的NSF资助的海洋学研究项目（这些项目单独接受NSF相关研究计划的单独审查）。 共享使用仪器的获取、维护和操作允许来自任何美国大学或实验室的NSF资助的研究人员使用工作、校准仪器进行研究，降低研究成本，并扩大潜在研究人员的基础。

This proposal requests funding for a 5-year effort to enable PFPE (Potential Field Pool Equipment) to provide the equipment and expertise necessary to continue obtaining high-quality marine gravity data on UNOLS vessels. During the 5-year term of the proposed work, PFPE seeks to (1) maintain adequate spares for operating the BGM-3 gravimeters; (2) provide technical expertise to the UNOLS community; (3) coordinate both the operation and maintenance of systems; and (4) standardize data formats and quality control through the development of a new data logging program. This last effort, software development, will address the need for a standardized data marine gravity format and at-sea data quality assessment but not be a tool for extensive postprocessing of marine gravity data. A key product of this proposal will be the publication of a ?best practices? manual for the UNOLS community. In the development of both item (4) and the ?best practices? manual, we will solicit input both the gravimeter operators and experienced marine gravity users.Broader Impacts: The principal impact of the present proposal is under criterion two, providing infrastructure support for scientists to use the vessel and its shared-use instrumentation in support of their NSF-funded oceanographic research projects (which individually undergo separate review by the relevant research program of NSF). The acquisition, maintenance and operation of shared-use instrumentation allows NSF-funded researchers from any US university or lab access to working, calibrated instruments for their research, reducing the cost of that research, and expanding the base of potential researchers.