Oceanographic Technical Services, R/V Atlantis and R/V Knorr, 2012 - 2016

伍兹霍尔海洋研究所（WHOI）提议支持两艘全球级研究船的技术服务，这两艘研究船都是由大学-国家海洋实验室系统（UNOLS）安排的美国学术船队的一部分。支援的船只是亚特兰蒂斯号，274？通用科考船和Knorr号(279？同类船舶。R/V Oceanus, 177？中级船舶，由WHOI运营的船舶改为俄勒冈州立大学运营的船舶。要求为2012年大约28天的过渡时期提供支助。作为其基本业务的一部分，WHOI将为每个海上研究项目提供两名技术人员，并将维护、校准和向合格用户提供其共享使用研究仪器池中的项目，包括使用亚特兰蒂斯号和诺尔号上的多波束测深声纳。世卫组织还建议为调查人员提供若干方面的专门支持，并分别收费。2012年要求的专门支持包括：1)支持海洋教育协会（Sea）； 2)技术池试点计划；3)支持垂直浮游生物记录（VPR）。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（这些项目分别由国家科学基金会的相关研究项目进行单独审查）。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。

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) proposes to support technical services on two global class research vessels, both operated as part of the U.S. Academic Fleet which is scheduled by the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS). Ships to be supported are R/V Atlantis, a 274? general purpose research vessel and R/V Knorr, a 279? vessel of the same class. R/V Oceanus, a 177? intermediate class vessel, changed from a ship operated by WHOI to a vessel operated by Oregon State University. Support is requested for the period of transition in 2012, roughly 28 days. As part of their basic operations WHOI will provide two technicians on each seagoing research project, and will maintain, calibrate and provide for qualified users items from their pool of shared-use research instrumentation, including use of the multibeam bathymetric sonars on Atlantis and Knorr. WHOI also proposes to provide several elements of specialized support for investigators, with separate charges. Specialized support requested for 2012 include 1) Support for Sea Education Association (SEA) 2) Tech Pool Pilot Program 3) Support for the Vertical Plankton Recorded (VPR). 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 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.