R/V Kilo Moana Ship Operations CY18-23

夏威夷大学寻求资金继续运营R/V Kilo Moana，这是一艘由美国海军拥有的研究船，由夏威夷大学运营，作为大学-国家海洋学实验室系统（UNOLS）学术研究舰队的一部分。这艘通用的海洋级SWATH（小水平面区域双船体）研究船的母港是夏威夷的檀香山，这使它成为唯一一艘位于北太平洋中部的ARF船。这个位置靠近太平洋中部和西部的研究地点，运输成本比美国西海岸的船只少一个多星期。使用R/V Kilo Moana进行研究的一个特别重点是ALOHA站的夏威夷海洋时间序列（HOT）站点，这是研究北太平洋副热带少营养海洋生物地球化学、海洋学、气候和浮游生物生态学和微生物过程的重要站点（http://hahana.soest.hawaii.edu/hot/）。30年的HOT项目是美国海洋研究的里程碑式成就，ALOHA站被美国微生物学会评为“微生物学里程碑站点”。ALOHA海洋站的研究是美国国家科学基金会（NSF）支持海洋微生物研究与教育中心（C-MORE）作为UH科学技术卓越中心的关键因素，也是HOT联合创始人David Karl被选为国家科学院院士的关键因素。HOT的研究提高了我们对海洋氮、碳和磷循环的认识，从ALOHA站获得的海洋pH值异常时间序列（Dore等，2009 - http://www.pnas.org/content/106/30/12235.full）记录了这里上层海洋酸化的季节变化和年代际增长，这与莫纳克亚山附近众所周知的大气中二氧化碳的变化密切相关。基洛·莫阿纳号为美国国家科学基金会或其他美国联邦机构资助的任何美国研究人员提供出海通道。稳定的SWATH设计为那些因晕船而无法航行的研究人员提供了通道，因为船只的运动比标准的“单体”船要小得多。这艘船携带了最先进的海底测绘系统，UH正在完成Lu'ukai的试验，Lu'ukai是UH的新型6000米ROV，将支持位于Papahanaumokuakea海洋国家纪念碑（西北夏威夷群岛）的ALOHA站的基洛莫阿纳深潜科学，以及整个太平洋。基洛莫阿纳支持美国国家科学基金会本科生研究经验（REU）网站和许多其他学生的教育机会，由联邦机构和soest资助。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

University of Hawaii seeks funds to continue operating R/V Kilo Moana, a research vessel owned by the US Navy and operated by University of Hawaii as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) Academic Research Fleet. This general purpose Ocean Class SWATH (Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull) research vessel's home port is Honolulu, Hawaii, making it the only ARF vessel based in the central North Pacific Ocean. This location provides proximity to research sites in the central and western Pacific, with transit costs more than a week less than ships based on the US West coast.A particular focus of research using R/V Kilo Moana is the Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) site at Station ALOHA, an important site for study of biogeochemistry, oceanography, climate and plankton ecology and microbiology processes in the oligotrophic subtropical North Pacific Ocean (http://hahana.soest.hawaii.edu/hot/). The 30-year HOT program stands as a landmark achievement in US ocean research, and Station ALOHA has been recognized as a "Milestones in Microbiology Site" by the American Society for Microbiology. Research at Ocean Station ALOHA was a key element in the award of support by NSF for the Center for Microbial Ocean Research and Education (C-MORE) as a Science and Technology Center of Excellence at UH, and in the selection of HOT co-founder David Karl as a Fellow of the National Academy of Science. Research at HOT has advanced our understanding of ocean nitrogen, carbon and phosphorus cycles, and the extraordinary time-series of ocean pH from Station ALOHA (Dore, et al, 2009 - http://www.pnas.org/content/106/30/12235.full) documents both the seasonal variability and the decadal increase in upper ocean acidification here, correlated closely to the well-known changes in CO2 in the atmosphere on nearby Mauna Kea.R/V Kilo Moana provides access to the sea to any US researcher funded by NSF or another US Federal agency. The stable SWATH design provides access to researchers who would otherwise be unable to sail due to seasickness, as vessel motion is much less than on a standard "mono-hull" vessel. The ship carries state-of-the-art systems for seafloor mapping, and UH is completing trials of Lu'ukai, UH's new 6000-meter ROV that will support deep submergence science from Kilo Moana at Station ALOHA, in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument (Northwest Hawaiian Islands), and throughout the Pacific. Kilo Moana supports NSF Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) site and many other educational opportunities for students, funded both by Federal agencies and SOESTThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.