Oceanographic Technical Services, R/V Endeavor, 2012?2016

罗德岛大学提议支持R/V Endeavor的技术服务，这是一个184？作为大学-国家海洋实验室系统研究船队一部分的通用研究船。该提案要求支持基本服务。他们将在“奋进号”的每次巡航中提供一名船上技术人员，以支持海上研究项目，并维护、校准并为合格用户提供共享研究仪器池中的项目。更广泛的影响目前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）。共享使用仪器的维护和操作的支持允许nsf资助的研究人员从任何美国大学或实验室访问工作，校准仪器为他们的研究，降低研究的成本，并扩大潜在的研究人员的基础。

University of Rhode Island proposes to support technical services on R/V Endeavor, a 184? general purpose research vessel operated as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System research fleet. The proposal requests support for basic services. They will provide one shipboard technician on each cruise of R/V Endeavor to support seagoing research projects and to maintain, calibrate and provide for qualified users items from their pool of shared-use research instrumentation.Broader ImpactsThe 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 support of 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.