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

概述：这笔赠款将支持2014年5月和6月在R/V大西洋探险者号上从巴巴多斯到百慕大的CST邮轮。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倡议的一部分，从高级研究生到初级教员，通过教育他们了解联合国最不发达国家联盟研究船队提供的能力和机会，增加他们对海洋研究的参与。除了为个人研究提供抽样机会外，还专门组织了一次科学技术邮轮，以教邮轮参与者如何成功地规划和执行从提案到邮轮后报告的研究邮轮。邮轮参与者的选择将基于他们提出的科学目标的可行性，另一个目标是最大限度地增加参与者的科学、社会和地理多样性。智力上的优点：航道覆盖了亚热带大西洋西部一个具有重要海洋学意义的过渡区域，因此参与者将能够获得有科学价值的数据，并获得宝贵的技能和培训，帮助他们在未来的职业生涯中规划和执行成功的邮轮。负面影响：CST邮轮将通过减少年轻科学家参与海洋研究的障碍，帮助美国海洋界发展未来的专业知识，特别是来自非船舶运营机构的科学家。拟议的活动将有助于传播有关国家科学基金会和联合国最不发达国家工作队提供的研究机会的信息。培训和讲习班活动预计将增加请求船舶支助的未来提案的数量和广度，并提高执行质量，以确保资助的巡航取得成功。科技委的巡航机会还将有助于扩大参与舰载科学研究的研究社区的地理代表性，并增加这一社区的多样性。

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.