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盘池的运作再提供五年的资金。由于这些系统的购买、维护和运输费用很高，因此对过载设备的投资是一项昂贵的任务。为了不仅确保这些系统可供研究人员用于他们的工作，还为了确保它们得到适当的维护，并在专家的支持下可供整个科学界使用，美国国家科学基金会创建了东海岸温泉池。创建这个“池”的目的是为科学家提供一个方便的单点联系，以满足他们所有的舱外设备需求以及专业知识，为他们提供满足其独特需求的创造性工程解决方案，同时通过汇集设备供科学界使用来降低成本。广泛影响本提案的主要影响是根据提案指南(NSF 19-602)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仪器，以支持他们由NSF资助的海洋研究项目(这些项目单独接受NSF相关研究计划的单独审查)。共享仪器的获取、维护和操作允许美国国家科学基金会资助的任何美国大学或实验室的研究人员获得用于其研究的工作、校准的仪器，从而降低研究成本，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。

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.