MRI: Acquisition of Sensors for an Oceanographic Moored Array Constituting an Integrated Research Instrument

伍兹霍尔海洋学研究所（WHOI）的物理海洋学观测实验室（POOL）是一个虚拟设施，为美国国家科学基金会支持的研究人员维护和提供系泊仪器。WHOI的同伴小组建造系泊设施，出海部署和回收系泊设备，并在主要调查员要求的情况下，从系泊的仪器中提取和处理数据，为科学分析做好准备。目前的POOL仪器库存完全用于正在进行的项目，因此POOL将无法支持未来几年的任何新举措。PI要求提供资金，以加强和更新WHOI POOL仪器，以取代一些老化的设备，一个单一的系泊系统，一个阵列，可以灵活地部署，以适应广泛的现象的采样要求。WHOI POOL是为了支持全国各地希望对海洋进行时间序列测量的研究人员而开发的。获得拟议的仪器将大大提高WHOI技术小组支持前沿研究的能力。更广泛的影响大量NSF资助的项目将需要通过拟议的活动提供的服务。据指出，拟议购买的新设备库存将有助于物理海洋学界今后开展各种项目，而不仅仅是世界卫生组织的研究人员。毫无疑问，大型或小型机构-研究生和本科生接触现代仪器是一个加号为拟议的收购。这对于依赖WHOI提供和维护一套测量硬件的小型机构尤为重要。

The Physical Oceanography Observing Laboratory (POOL) of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is a virtual facility that maintains and provides moored instrumentation to U.S. investigators conducting research supported by the National Science Foundation. Companion groups at WHOI construct mooring elements, go to sea to deploy and recover moorings and, if requested by the principal investigator, extract and process the data from the moored instrumentation and make them ready for scientific analysis. The present inventory of POOL instrumentation is fully committed to ongoing projects, so POOL will be unable to support any new initiatives in the coming several years. The PI's requests funding to enhance and renew WHOI POOL instrumentation to replace some aging equipment a single mooring system, an array that can be flexibly deployed to accommodate the sampling requirements for a broad range of phenomenon. The WHOI POOL has been developed to support researchers throughout the country wishing to make time-series measurements of the ocean. The acquisition of the proposed instrumentation will significantly improve the ability of WHOI's technical groups to support leading-edge research.Broader ImpactsA wide range of NSF-funded projects will require the services that will be available through the proposed activities. It is stated that the new inventory of equipment proposed for purchase will aid the physical oceanography community in a variety of projects in the future, and not just researchers at WHOI. There is no question that large or small institution- graduate and undergraduate students' exposure to modern instrumentation is a plus for the proposed acquisition. This is especially important for smaller institutions, which rely on WHOI to supply and maintain a suite of measurement hardware.