Oceanographic Technical Services,R/V Savannah, 2012-2016

斯基德韦海洋研究所(佐治亚大学)建议支持R/V Savannah的技术服务，这是一架92？作为大学--国家海洋学实验室系统研究船队的一部分，联合国日内瓦办事处的通用研究船。他们将在大多数巡航中配备一名技术人员，以维护和协助科学家在海上使用共用仪器。技术服务小组将维护、校准和向符合条件的用户提供其共享研究仪器池中的物品。这项提案中的预算是为期5年的持续拨款的第一年。广泛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享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)。对共用仪器的维护和操作的支持使美国国家科学基金会资助的任何美国大学或实验室的研究人员都可以为他们的研究使用经过校准的工作仪器，从而降低了研究成本，并扩大了潜在研究人员的基础。所有用户(或适当的资助机构)平均分担船舶基本技术服务的支持，NSF根据船舶在一年中的部分使用量支付部分技术支持费用。

Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (University of Georgia) proposes to support technical services on R/V Savannah, a 92? general purpose UNOLS research vessel operated as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System research fleet. They will provide a technician on most cruises to maintain and assist scientists in the use of shared-use instrumentation at sea. The technical services group will maintain, calibrate and provide for qualified users items from their pool of shared-use research instrumentation. The budget in this proposal is for the first year of a 5-year continuing grant.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. All users (or the appropriate funding agencies) share support for basic technical services on the vessel equally, with NSF paying a share of technical support costs based on fractional usage of the vessel during the year.