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

伍兹霍尔海洋研究所(WHOI)建议支持两艘全球级考察船的技术服务，这两艘考察船都是由大学-国家海洋实验室系统(UNLS)计划的美国学术舰队的一部分。将支持的舰船是R/V Atlantis，一艘274？通用科考船和R/V Knorr，279？同一级别的船只。大洋号，一架177？中级船，从世界卫生组织运营的船舶改为俄勒冈州立大学运营的船舶。请为2012年过渡期提供支助，大约28天。作为其基本业务的一部分，世界卫生组织将为每个海洋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用研究仪器池中的物品，包括使用亚特兰蒂斯和诺尔上的多波束测深声纳。世卫组织还建议为调查人员提供几项专门支持，并单独收费。2012年请求的专门支持包括1)支持海洋教育协会(SEA)2)技术池试点计划3)支持记录的垂直浮游生物(VPR)。更广泛的影响本提案的主要影响是根据标准二，为科学家使用该船及其共享使用的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。

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.