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

这项提案要求为一项为期5年的努力提供资金，使潜在场池设备能够提供必要的设备和专门知识，继续在联卢行动船上获取高质量的海洋重力数据。在拟议工作的5年期间，PFPE力求(1)维持足够的备件以操作BGM-3重力仪；向联卢特派团提供技术专门知识；(3)协调系统的运行和维护；(4)通过开发新的数据记录程序，规范数据格式和质量控制。最后一项工作，即软件开发，将解决对标准化数据海洋重力格式和海上数据质量评估的需求，但不是对海洋重力数据进行广泛后处理的工具。这项建议的一个关键成果将是出版一份？最佳实践?联索特派团社区手册。在(4)项和？最佳实践?手册，我们将征求重力仪操作员和经验丰富的海洋重力用户的输入。更广泛的影响：本提案的主要影响在标准二下，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国家科学基金会资助的海洋学研究项目（这些项目单独接受国家科学基金会相关研究项目的单独审查）。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资助的研究人员为他们的研究访问工作、校准仪器，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.