R/V Oceanus Operations

伍兹霍尔海洋研究所(WHOI)要求为R/V Ocean业务提供资金，以支持由国家科学基金会资助的科学研究。拟议在大洋号上的行动将为12名不同的首席调查员提供15条不同航段的海洋通道。在大洋洲计划的255个工作日中，92%(92%)将支持NSF计划；其他资金来源支持今年剩余的计划。这是一项为期五年的合作协议，每年的资金将基于支持NSF资助的研究项目的海上天数。海洋上的邮轮将支持的一些主要科学主题的样本可概述如下：重点关注哈特拉斯前线及其在沿海地区沿海和向海跨陆架运输中所发挥的中心作用。2.)支持一次巡航，重点关注有机物质的新生产和二氧化碳的光合作用吸收，因为它影响全球碳循环。3.)开展系泊作业，以帮助了解有害藻华的来源以及影响其在缅因湾的运输和命运的物理过程。4.)物理海洋学巡航将增进对北大西洋深水向较低纬度地区出口的机制和比率的了解。6-8月，大洋洲将专注于一个四段计划，研究浮游植物对马尾藻海上升流和混合的反应。智力价值本提案中要求的船日是11个NSF研究项目的实地考察所必需的。作为国家科学基金提案和奖励程序的组成部分，这些项目经过了严格的科学和智力价值评估。颁奖过程的高度竞争性确保了非常高的智力水平。由大洋洲支持的研究计划所获得的知识和发现将加强我们对海洋的了解，并解决广泛的重要科学问题。大洋号将为研究人员提供安全和高效地进行海上科学工作所需的设备和熟练的船上人员。2005年由大洋洲支持的研究计划将对了解地球气候及其随时间变化的方式、确定洋流循环和传输、研究海洋生态系统动力学、量化海洋和大气交换以及测试新的海洋地震仪器具有重要意义。这些智力努力将继续拓宽我们对海洋的理解，引发新的问题，并在未来几年证实科学理论，使整个社会受益。广泛的影响陈述海洋探险在许多方面是大学课堂的延伸。由高级和初级科学家、博士后研究人员、工程师、技术人员以及研究生和本科生组成的多样化组合通常为大洋洲的腿提供服务。这些巡游是非同寻常的教育体验，让参与者接触到新的想法，通过观察和实践教授基本的科学原理，并不可避免地提出一些问题，激发对海洋如何运作的新思考。在过去的几年里，人们越来越认识到我们有责任将科学带入课堂和向公众传播，这导致了分享这些科学发现的新途径的发展。邮轮网站的概念在全国各地学校的科学家和学生之间通过实时图像和双向交流进入课堂非常有效。这有效地将出海体验从一条腿上的几个参与者扩展到全国各地教室里的数千名学生，以及普通公众。世界卫生组织网站(http://www.whoi.edu))率先努力向公众展示研究考察和海洋项目的成果(例如潜水和发现网站：http://science.whoi.edu/DiveDiscover)，)，我们正在继续开发使用世界卫生组织网站的新方法，向更多的受众传达海洋研究的兴奋和重要性。

The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) requests funding for R/V Oceanus operations in support ofscientific research funded by the National Science Foundation. The proposed operations aboard the Oceanus will provide 12 different principal investigators with access to the sea on 15 different legs. Ninety-two percent (92%) of the 255 operating days scheduled on Oceanus will support NSF programs; other funding sources support the remainder of the year's schedule. This is a five year cooperative agreement, and funding each year will be based upon the number of days at sea in support of NSF funded research programs. Samples of some of the major scientific themes the cruises on The Oceanus will support may be summarized as follows:1.) Focus on the Hatteras Front and the central role it plays in shoreward and seaward cross-shelf transport in the coastal ocean. 2.) Support a cruise with a focus on the new production of organic matter and photosynthetic uptake of CO2 as it affects the global carbon cycle. 3.) Conduct mooring operations to help understand the sources of harmful algal blooms and the physical processes that influence their transport and fate in the Gulf of Maine. 4.) A physical oceanography cruise will build understanding of the mechanisms and rates of North Atlantic Deep Water export to lower latitudes.5.) June-August will find the Oceanus focusing on a 4-leg program researching phytoplankton response to upwelling and mixing in the Sargasso Sea. Intellectual Merit The ship days requested in this proposal are required for the fieldwork of 11 NSF research projects. These projects have been rigorously evaluated for scientific and intellectual merit as an integral part of the NSFproposal and award process. The highly competitive nature of the award granting process ensures a very high level of intellectual merit. The knowledge gained and the discoveries made by the research programs supported by Oceanus will enhance our understanding of the oceans and address a broad range of important scientific questions. The Oceanus will provide researchers with the equipment, and skilled shipboard personnel, required to safely and productively pursue their scientific endeavors at sea. The research programs supported by Oceanus in 2005 will be important in understanding the Earth's climate and how it changes over time, determining ocean current circulation and transport, investigating ocean ecosystem dynamics, quantifying ocean and atmosphere exchange, and testing new marine seismic instrumentation. These intellectual endeavors will continue to broaden our understanding of the oceans, spur new questions, and confirm scientific theory for years to come, benefiting society at large.Broad Impact Statement An oceanographic expedition is in many respects an extension of the University classroom. A diverse mix of senior and junior scientists, post-doctoral investigators, engineers, technicians and graduate and undergraduate students typically staff Oceanus legs. These cruises are extraordinary educational experiences that expose participants to new ideas, teach fundamental scientific principles through observation and practice, and inevitably raise questions that stimulate new thinking about how the oceans work. Over the past several years an increased awareness of our responsibility to bring science into the classroom and to the general public has resulted in the development of new avenues to share these scientific findings. The cruise web site concept has been very effective in reaching the classroom with real-time images and two-way communication between scientists and students in schools across the country. This effectively extends the sea-going experience from the handful of participants on a single leg to thousands of students in classrooms across the country, as well as to the general public. The WHOI web site (http://www.whoi.edu) has pioneered efforts to present the results of research expeditions and sea-going projects to the general public (e.g. the Dive and Discover web site: http://science.whoi.edu/DiveDiscover), and we are continuing to develop new ways of using the WHOI web site to convey the excitement and importance of sea-going research to a larger audience.