RAPID: Deploying VentCam as a Data Collection Base Station for the Axial Seamount SensorBot Array

PI要求提供资金，以重新调整VentCam海底摄像机系统的用途，使其在2011年8月胡安·德富卡海岭轴向海山SensorBot阵列测试期间充当数据接收基站。SensorBot阵列是一组光学通信和荧光传感聚碳酸酯球体，使用最初为人类健康应用开发的新型荧光聚合物测量扩散热液流体特性。这项技术的重新部署将涉及对VentCam控制软件的大量重写，以及对硬件的微小更改。该项目提供了一个低成本的机会，展示VentCam的多功能性，并最大限度地为海底科学界带来好处。更广泛的影响：该项目还将展示VentCam系统的多功能性，以及该系统解决各种海底仪器问题的潜在适用性。将有几个本科生加入这个巡航谁将与科学家，工程师和船一起工作？的船员获得使用海洋仪器的经验，并进行自己的研究。作为一个早期的职业科学家，这个项目将支持PI？开发新海底的努力

The PI requests funds to repurpose the VentCam seafloor camera system to act as a data receiving base station during a test of the SensorBot array at Axial Seamount on the Juan de Fuca Ridge during August of 2011. The SensorBot array is a set of optically communicating and fluorescently sensing polycarbonate spheres that measure diffuse hydrothermal fluid properties using novel fluorescent polymers developed originally for use in human health applications. The redeployment of this technology will involve a substantial rewrite of the VentCam control software, and minor changes to hardware. This project represents a low-cost opportunity to demonstrate the versatility of the VentCam, and maximize its benefit to the seafloor scientific community.Broader Impacts: This project will also demonstrate the versatility of the VentCam system and the potential applicability of this system to address a variety of seafloor instrumentation problems. There will be several undergraduate students joining this cruise who will work alongside scientists, engineers, and the ship?s crew to gain experience using oceanographic instrumentation and to conduct their own research. As an early career scientist, this project will support the PI?s efforts to develop novel seafloor