Oceanographic Technical Services, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine&Atmospheric Science (RSMAS), 2018-2022

迈阿密大学提议支持R/V沃尔顿史密斯的技术服务，一般用途的区域船舶经营和拥有的迈阿密大学？Rosenstiel海洋和大气科学学院（RSMAS）是美国学术舰队的一部分。这些船只由大学-国家海洋学实验室系统（UNOLS）安排。 R/V Walton Smith在南佛罗里达和墨西哥湾的近海岸沃茨开展大部分业务，提供与重大环境倡议相关的科学信息。 作为其基本业务的一部分，它们将为每个海上研究项目提供一名技术员，并将维护、校准和向合格用户提供共用研究仪器库中的物品。 本提案中的预算用于五年连续赠款的第一年。我们提供的年份是估计数，奖励将在收到年度报告后进行谈判。该计划于2017年12月20日收到提案。根据要求，该报告提供了有关2017年业务的信息，并概述了2018年的计划和拟议预算。 学术船队中的研究船为来自各种联邦和州机构以及一些私人赞助商的研究人员提供支持。所有用户（或适当的供资机构）通过日费率平等地分担对船舶基本技术服务的支持，每个用户根据船舶的部分使用情况支付一部分费用。费率每年与NSF项目经理协商。 本提案的主要影响是提案指南（NSF 13-589）的优点审查标准2。它为科学家提供基础设施支持，以使用该船及其共享使用的仪器来支持他们的NSF资助的海洋学研究项目（这些项目单独接受NSF相关研究计划的单独审查）。 共享使用仪器的获取、维护和操作允许来自美国任何大学或实验室的NSF资助的研究人员使用工作、校准的仪器进行研究，降低研究成本，并扩大潜在研究人员的基础。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识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 Miami proposes to support technical services on R/V Walton Smith, a 96?, general purpose regional vessel operated and owned by the University of Miami?s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences (RSMAS) as part of the US Academic Fleet. These vessels are scheduled by the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS). R/V Walton Smith conducts a substantial portion of her operations in the near shore waters of South Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, providing scientific information relevant to major environmental initiatives. As part of their basic operations they will provide one technician on each seagoing research project, and will maintain, calibrate and provide for qualified users items from their pool of shared-use research instrumentation. The budget in this proposal is for the first year of a five-year continuing grant. Out years are provided as estimates and the awards will be negotiated upon receipt of the annual report.The Program received the proposal on 12/20/17. As required, the report provided information regarding 2017 operations as well as outlining plans and a proposed budget for 2018. Research vessels in the Academic Fleet provide support for researchers from a variety of federal and state agencies, as well as some private sponsors. All users (or the appropriate funding agencies) share support for basic technical services on the vessel equally, via a day-rate, with each paying a share of the costs based on fractional usage of the vessel. The rates are negotiated annually with the NSF Program Manager.Broader Impacts The principal impact of the present proposal is under Merit Review Criterion 2 of the Proposal Guidelines (NSF 13-589). It provides 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 acquisition, 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.This 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.