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

该提案要求为一项为期5年的努力提供资金，以使PFPE(潜在实地联合设备)能够提供必要的设备和专门知识，继续获取联索政治处船只的高质量海洋重力数据。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)向联索政治处提供技术专门知识；(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，它将解决标准化海洋重力数据格式和海上数据质量评估的需要，但不会成为海洋重力数据广泛后处理的工具。这项提案的一个关键产品将是出版一份？最佳实践？联合国后勤服务处社区手册。在第(4)项和最佳做法的制定过程中我们将征求重力仪操作员和经验丰富的海洋重力用户的意见。广泛的影响：本提案的主要影响是在标准2下，为科学家使用该船及其共用仪器提供基础设施支持，以支持他们由NSF资助的海洋研究项目(这些项目分别由NSF的相关研究计划单独审查)。共享仪器的获取、维护和操作使任何美国大学或实验室的NSF资助的研究人员都可以获得用于其研究的工作、校准的仪器，从而降低了研究成本，并扩大了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.