Oceanographic Technical Services, R/V Cape Hatteras, 2012 - 2016

杜克大学建议支持哈特拉斯角房车的技术服务，一架135？作为大学-国家海洋学实验室系统研究船队的一部分，由杜克大学/北卡罗来纳大学联合体运营的通用联合国海洋实验室研究船。他们只要求提供基本服务支持。他们将为哈特拉斯角的每个海洋研究项目配备一名技术人员，以支持海洋研究项目，并维护、校准和向合格用户提供他们的共用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。

Duke University proposes to support technical services on R/V Cape Hatteras, a 135? general purpose UNOLS research vessel operated by the Duke/UNC Consortium as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System research fleet. They request support for basic services only. They will provide one technician on each seagoing research project of R/V Cape Hatteras to support seagoing research projects and to 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.