Ship Operations

该项目将支持NSF资助的研究项目，为在加利福尼亚州中部海岸外进行的研究提供安全、高效和经济的平台，特别是在深海蒙特利峡谷顶部的蒙特利湾进行研究。今年是一项为期五年的合作协议的第一年，在2005财年，180天中的114天将用于支持NSF赞助的五个不同的研究项目。对于合作协议之后的每一年，资金取决于支持NSF研究的海上天数，预算将重新谈判。苏尔角支持的研究项目的智力价值已经确定，这艘船是NSF奖项的平台。这艘船继续为来自世界各地其他机构的科学家以及与蒙特利湾新月会海洋研究协会有关的机构提供服务。布罗德影响虽然这是一项行动拨款，要求为科学支持活动提供资金，但这不是一个容易符合公众宣传和教育的资金来源，但对R/V Point Sur行动的支持有几种方式可以做到这一点。莫斯登陆海洋实验室已经成功地推进了加州州立大学的海岸综合观测、研究和教育中心(CI-CORE，http://www.mlml.calstate.edu/cicore/)和海岸技术联盟计划(ACT，http://www.actonline.ws/).作为这两项工作的关键合作伙伴，MLML得到了资助(NSF免费)，为包括R/V Point Sur在内的许多船只正在进行的地表水参数(温度、盐度、荧光、氧气和浊度)测量提供仪器。作为传播与信息核心计划的一部分，这些数据将被格式化，并在其网站上向教育工作者、科学家、政策制定者和公众提供。需要克服的问题与确保首席科学家批准这一数据分发有关。他们希望展示这一方法的效用，并将方法输出给联合国内罗毕办事处的其他船只，以便作为其正常科学任务的一部分进行的大量海洋测量可以连接到海洋观测网络中。这是通过与实验室合作实现的CI-CORE计划的一个雄心勃勃的要素。邮轮拍摄的图像和数据将提供一个独特的机会，分享发现科学和促进沿海海洋多变性的过程。在MLML，这些数据和图像将用于支持教师教育计划，为当地的K-12教育工作者提供海洋科学课程。他们计划的另一个要素是教学邮轮，MLML和Consortium教员计划在R/V Point Sur上执行教育任务。联盟校园不仅参与了这些巡游，而且MLML还为当地团体提供了更多的空间来参与。每年，通过该点的运营，数十名学生都获得了独特的机会。苏尔。

This project will support NSF funded research programs by providing a safe, efficient, and economical platform for studies conducted off the coast of central California, particularly in Monterey Bay at the head of the deep undersea Monterey canyon. This is year one of a five-year cooperative agreement, and in CY2005, 114 days out of 180 will be used to support five different NSF sponsored research programs. For each subsequent year of the cooperative agreement, funding is dependent upon the number of days at sea in support of NSF research, and budgets are renegotiated. The intellectual merit of the research programs being supported on the Point Sur have been determined and the ship serves as the platform for the NSF awards. The ship continues to serve scientists from other institutions around the world, as well as institutions associated with the Monterey Bay Crescent Ocean Research Consortium.Broader ImpactsAlthough this is an operations grant, requesting funds for science support activities and not one that would conform easily to public outreach and education, there are several ways in which support of the R/V Point Sur operations will do exactly that. The Moss Landing Marine Laboratories has been successful in advancing the California State University's Center for Integrative Coastal Observation, Research and Education program (CI-CORE, http://www.mlml.calstate.edu/cicore/) and the Alliance for Coastal Technologies program (ACT, http://www.actonline.ws/). As a key partner in both these efforts MLML has been funded (at no cost to NSF) to provide instrumentation for the underway measurement of surface water parameters (temperature, salinity, fluorescence, oxygen, and turbidity) from a number of vessels, including the R/V Point Sur. As part of the CI-CORE program these data will be formatted and made available on their web site for educators, scientists, policy makers and the public. Issues to be overcome relate to securing Chief Scientist approval for this data distribution. Their hope is to demonstrate the utility of this approach and export methodologies to other UNOLS vessels such that a large number of ocean measurements taken as part of their normal science missions, can be linked into a network of ocean observations. This is an ambitious element of the CI-CORE program made possible through collaboration with Laboratories. Images from cruises, together with data will provide a unique opportunity to share in the science of discovery and the processes contributing to the variability of the coastal ocean. At MLML, this data and images will be used in support of a Teacher's Education Program, providing marine science curricula to local K-12 educators. Another element of their program is teaching cruises in which MLML and Consortium faculty schedule time aboard the R/V Point Sur for educational missions. Not only do Consortium campuses take part in these cruises, but MLML makes additional space available for local groups to participate as well. Every year, scores of students are provided with unique opportunities through the operation of the Point. Sur.