Acquisition of Satellite Communications Systems to Provide Continuous Internet Connectivity for Oceanographic Research Vessels at Sea

0421025 Bohlen这一重大研究仪器奖授予联合海洋研究所，公司。为购置卫星通信系统提供资金，为海上海洋研究船提供持续的互联网连接。 该奖项将大学-国家海洋学实验室系统（UNOLS）学术研究船队中使用HiSeasNet系统进行船与海岸或船与船之间通信的船只数量从3艘增加到9艘。 它为所有大型的“全球级”UNOLS船只配备了完整的互联网连接，为研究人员之间的电子和语音通信提供了经济的方法，并为中型“海洋级”船只提供了试验平台，使用较小的天线，可能为更小的沿海或当地研究船只提供适当的能力。 它还为今后涉及研究船和无人平台（浮标和观测系统）的通信提供了一个模式。 在此支持的扩大的通信能力保守估计将影响到每年50 000多人/日的科学家、技术人员和船员在海上的工作，并影响到同样数量的岸上工作，从而大大提高船上研究人员的研究质量和生产力，并改善参加巡航的人员的士气和沟通。 收购的更广泛的影响是广泛的，因为“永远在线”的通信促进了更广泛的外联和教育机会，将该领域的研究人员与课堂上的学生聚集在一起，并以多种方式吸引公众。 JOI，Inc.美国海洋局及其学术伙伴机构斯克里普斯海洋学研究所（加州圣地亚哥大学）、伍兹霍尔海洋学研究所、夏威夷大学、罗得岛大学和拉蒙特-多尔蒂地球观测站（哥伦比亚大学）共同提供了该项目30%的非联邦资金费用。 这项建议得到了NSF海洋科学部的支持。***

0421025BohlenThis Major Research Instrumentation award to Joint Oceanographic Institutions, Inc. provides funds for acquisition of satellite communications systems to provide continuous Internet connectivity for oceanographic research ships at sea. This award increases from three to nine the number of vessels in the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) academic research fleet that use the HiSeasNet system for communication between ship and shore or ship and ship. It outfits all of the large, 'global-class' UNOLS vessels with full Internet connectivity, offers an economical methods for electronic and voice communication among researchers, and provides a testbed for the intermediate-sized 'ocean-class' vessels, using smaller antennas that potentially offer an appropriate capability for even smaller coastal or local research ships. It also provides a model for future communications involving research vessels and unmanned platforms (buoys and observing systems). The expanded communications capability supported here will conservatively impact more than 50,000 annual person-days of scientists, technicians and ship's crew at sea, and a similar number ashore, substantially enhancing research quality and productivity by shipboard researchers, and improving morale and communications among cruise participants. The broader impacts of the acquisition are extensive, as the 'always-on' communications facilitates much-expanded outreach and educational opportunities bringing together researchers in the field with students in the classroom, and engaging the general public in many ways. JOI, Inc. and its academic partner institutions Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California San Diego), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, University of Hawaii, University of Rhode Island and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (Columbia University) are, together, providing 30% of the costs of the project from non-federal funds. This proposal is supported by the Division of Ocean Sciences at NSF. ***