Five Year Request for East Coast Winch Pool Facility (CY22-26) Year 1

伍兹霍尔海洋研究所请求为东海岸绞车池的运作再提供五年的资金。由于这些系统的购买、维护和运输成本很高，对船外设备的投资是一项昂贵的工作。为了不仅确保这些系统可供研究人员工作，而且确保它们得到适当维护，并在专家支持下可供整个科学界使用，NSF创建了东海岸绞盘池。创建这个“池”的目的是为科学家提供一个方便的单点联系点，满足他们对船外设备的所有需求，并提供专业知识，为他们的独特要求提供创造性的工程解决方案，同时通过将设备集中起来供科学界使用来降低成本。更广泛的影响本提案的主要影响是根据提案指南的优点审查标准2（NSF 19-602）。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。

A request is made by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to fund the operation of the East Coast Winch Pool for an additional five years. The investment in overboarding equipment is an expensive undertaking due to the high cost of purchase, maintenance and shipping of these systems. In an effort to not only ensure that these systems are available to researchers for their work but to also ensure that that they are properly maintained and available to the entire science community with expert support, NSF created the East Coast Winch Pool. This “pool” was created to offer scientists a convenient single point of contact for all of their overboarding equipment needs as well as the expertise to provide them with creative engineering solutions for their unique requirements while at the same time reducing cost by pooling equipment for use by the scientific community.Broader ImpactsThe principal impact of the present proposal is under Merit Review Criterion 2 of the Proposal Guidelines (NSF 19-602). 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.