Oceanographic Instrumentation - 2011

请求为亚特兰蒂斯号航天飞机上的额外和备用仪器提供资金。通用环球船；R/V Knorr, 279？通用环球船；还有R/V Oceanus， 177？、通用、中间容器。这三艘船都由伍兹霍尔海洋研究所运营，作为大学-国家海洋实验室系统研究船队的一部分。该请求包括按优先顺序列出的三个项目：1)氧滴定器2)SBE 9+ CTD 3)实验室plug模具和GFI电路更广泛的影响：本提案的主要影响是在标准2下，为科学家提供基础设施支持，以使用该船及其共享使用的仪器来支持他们的NSF资助的海洋学研究项目（这些项目分别由NSF的相关研究计划单独审查）。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资助的研究人员为他们的研究访问工作、校准仪器，降低研究成本，并扩大潜在研究人员的基础。

A request is made to fund additional and back-up instrumentation on the R/V Atlantis, a 274? general purpose Global vessel; the R/V Knorr, a 279?general purpose Global vessel; and the R/V Oceanus, a 177?, general purpose, Intermediate vessel. All three vessels are operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System research fleet. The request includes three items listed by priority: 1) Oxygen Titrators 2) SBE 9+ CTD 3) Laboratory plugmolds and GFI circuitsBroader Impacts: The principal impact of the present proposal is under criterion two, providing infrastructure support for scientists to use the vessel and its shared-use instrumentation in support of their NSF-funded oceanographic research projects (which individually undergo separate review by the relevant research program of NSF). 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.