Developing the Lake Tanganyika Drilling Project

坦噶尼喀湖科学钻探现场调查这笔赠款将支持与海洋工程师和大陆科学钻探人员一起对坦噶尼喀湖进行现场调查，以最终确定和验证坦噶尼喀湖钻探的建议和预算，并于2019年提交给国际大陆钻探计划和NSF。2020年，这笔赠款将支持海洋工程师和大陆科学钻探人员对坦噶尼喀湖进行实地考察，以最终确定和核实钻探坦噶尼喀湖的建议和预算。提交给国际大陆钻探计划和NSF在2019/2020。该赠款将支持以下现场必要的工作：1）评估坦噶尼喀湖上现有的船只及其作为钻井船的适用性，评估现有的海洋造船厂及其能力（干船坞等）。2）评估科学家和钻井人员的岸上和离岸住房以及核心实验室的地点;3）评估湖上的小型船只和工作船，以确定其是否适合作为人员和船员运输船，并确定这些船只的成本; 4）确定燃料供应、人员运输、食品、银行和其他服务的当地承包商，并获得这些服务的成本; 5）获得高达-该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得的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，

Lake Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Site SurveyThis grant will support a site survey to Lake Tanganyika with marine engineers and continental scientific drilling personnel to finalize and verify proposals and a budget for drilling Lake Tanganyika for submission to the International Continental Drilling Program and the NSF in 2019/2020.This grant will support a site visit to Lake Tanganyika with marine engineers and continental scientific drilling personnel to finalize and verify proposals and a budget for drilling Lake Tanganyika for submission to the International Continental Drilling Program and the NSF in 2019/2020. The grant will support the following on-site requisite work:1) Evaluate existing vessels on Lake Tanganyika and their suitability for use as drilling ship, evaluate existing marine shipyards and their capabilities (dry dock, etc.) to modify vessels on the lake, and to develop a budget for these activities;2) Evaluate on-and off-shore housing for scientists and drillers and sites for a core laboratory;3) Evaluate smaller vessels and work boats on the lake to determine their suitability to serve as personnel and crew transport vessels, and determine costs for these;4) Identify local contractors for fuel supply, personnel transport, food, banking, and other services, and obtain costsfor those services;5) Obtain up-to-date information on research and drilling permitting procedures for Tanganyika.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.