Oceanographic Instrumentation

请求为R/V Roger Revelle（一艘273英尺的通用Global船）、R/V梅尔维尔（一艘279英尺的通用Global船）、R/V New Horizon（一艘170英尺的通用中型船）和R/V Sproul（一艘125英尺的通用区域船）的额外和备用仪器提供资金。所有四艘船都由斯克里普斯海洋学研究所运营，作为大学国家海洋学实验室系统研究船队的一部分。此建议书中的一个请求将通过另一个机构作为团购提供资金，而另一个请求已存在于车队池中，并将被转移到该机构。此奖项包括两个项目：1）IXSEA PHINS运动传感器 2)Knudsen 3260回声测深仪（6个系统） 更广泛的影响：共享使用仪器的获取、维护和操作允许来自任何美国大学或实验室的NSF资助的研究人员使用工作、校准仪器进行研究，降低研究成本，并扩大潜在研究人员的基础。购买斯克里普斯船上声纳系统的部件将使这一重要的海底和海底下跟踪功能得以在西海岸的中心机构中维持。

A request is made to fund additional and back-up instrumentation on the R/V Roger Revelle, a 273' general purpose Global vessel; the R/V Melville, a 279' general purpose Global vessel; the R/V New Horizon, a 170', general purpose, Intermediate vessel and the R/V Sproul, a 125' general purpose Regional vessel. All four vessels are operated by Scripps Institute of Oceanography as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System research fleet. One of the requests in this proposal will be funded as a group purchase through another institution and another request already exists in a fleet pool and will be devilvered to the institution. This award includes two items: 1) IXSEA PHINS motion sensor 2) Knudsen 3260 Echosounder (6 systems) Broader Impacts: 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. The acquisition of the components for the sonar systemes on the Scripps vessels will allow this important functionality of bottom and sub-bottom tracking to be maintained in this hub institution on the West Coast.