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

概述：这笔资金将用于支持R/V大西洋探险者号在2014年5月和6月从巴巴多斯到百慕大进行一次CST巡航。首席科学家培训（CST）巡游是一项教育计划的一部分，旨在为年轻的美国海洋学家（从高级研究生到初级教师）设计，通过教育他们了解联合国海洋研究中心研究船队提供的能力和机会，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，CST邮轮还专门组织邮轮参与者如何成功地计划和执行邮轮研究，从提案到邮轮后报告。邮轮参与者将根据其提出的科学目标的可行性进行选择，另外一个目标是最大限度地提高参与者的科学、社会和地理多样性。知识价值：该航路覆盖了大西洋西部亚热带重要的海洋学过渡区域，因此参与者除了获得宝贵的技能和培训外，还将能够获得科学上有价值的数据，这将有助于他们在未来的职业生涯中计划和执行成功的巡航。更广泛的影响：CST巡航将通过减少年轻科学家参与海上研究的障碍，特别是那些来自非船舶运营商机构的科学家，帮助发展美国海洋学界未来的专业知识。拟议的活动将有助于传播关于国家科学基金会和联合国生命线行动研究队所提供的研究机会的信息。预计培训和讲习班活动将增加未来要求船舶支持的提案的数量和范围，并提高执行质量和获得资助的游轮的成功。CST邮轮的机会也将有助于扩大参与船舶科学研究的研究界的地理代表性，并增加这个社区的多样性。

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.