Chief Scientist Training Cruise (Barbados-Bermuda, May 2014)

概述：这笔赠款将用于支持科技委2014年5月和6月乘坐大西洋探索者号R/V从巴巴多斯到百慕大的巡航。首席科学家培训（CST）巡航是为年轻的美国海洋学家设计的教育计划的一部分，从高年级研究生到初级教师，通过教育他们了解UNOLS研究船队提供的能力和机会来增加他们对海上研究的参与。除了为个人研究提供抽样机会外，还专门组织了一次国家技术服务小组巡航考察，从提议到巡航考察后报告，向巡航考察者传授如何成功地规划和执行研究巡航考察。参加者将根据其所提出的科学目标的可行性进行选择，另一个目标是最大限度地提高参加者的科学、社会和地理多样性。智力优势：船迹覆盖了西亚热带大西洋的一个重要海洋过渡区，因此参加者除了获得宝贵的技能和培训外，还将能够获得有科学价值的数据，这将有助于他们在未来的职业生涯中规划和执行成功的巡航。CST巡航将通过减少年轻科学家参与海上研究的障碍，特别是来自非船舶运营机构的科学家，帮助美国海洋学界发展未来的专业知识。拟议的活动将有助于传播有关国家科学基金会和联合国后勤处研究队提供的研究机会的信息。预计培训和讲习班活动将增加今后要求船舶支助的提案的数量和范围，并提高供资航行的执行质量和成功率。科学和技术委员会的巡航机会还将有助于扩大参与船基科学研究的研究界的地域代表性，并增加这一群体的多样性。

Overview:This grant will support a CST cruise on the R/V Atlantic Explorer from Barbados to Bermudain May and June 2014. Chief Scientist Training (CST) cruises are part of an educational initiativedesigned for young US oceanographers, from senior graduate students to junior faculty, toincrease their participation in seagoing research by educating them about the capabilitiesand opportunities provided by the UNOLS research fleet. In addition to providing samplingopportunities for individual research, a CST cruise is specifically organized to teach cruiseparticipants how to successfully plan and execute a research cruise, from proposal to post-cruisereporting. Cruise participants will be selected based on the feasibility of their proposedscience objectives, with an additional goal of maximizing scientific, societal and geographicdiversity of the participants.Intellectual Merit :The ship track covers a oceanographically important transitional area in the western subtropicalAtlantic, and thus the participants will be able to obtain scientifically valuable data inaddition to gaining valuable skills and training that will help them to plan and execute successfulcruises in their future careers.Broader Impacts :The CST cruise will help develop future expertise in the US oceanographic community by reducingthe barriers to participation of young scientists in seagoing research, particularly thosescientists from non ship-operator institutions. The activities proposed will help to disseminateinformation about the research opportunities that are provided by NSF and the UNOLS researchfleet. The training and workshop activities are projected to increase the number and breadthof future proposals requesting ship support as well as to improve the quality of executionand success of funded cruises. The CST cruise opportunity will also help to broaden thegeographic representation of the research community that is involved in ship-based scientificstudies as well as increase the diversity of this community.