Oceanographic Technical Services, R/V Endeavor, 2012?2016

罗德岛大学建议支持R/V Endeavor的技术服务，一台184？作为大学-国家海洋实验室系统研究船队的一部分运行的通用研究船。该提案要求为基本服务提供支持。他们将在每一次R/V奋进号巡航中配备一名船上技术人员，以支持海上研究项目，并从他们的共享研究仪器池中为合格的用户维护、校准和提供项目。广泛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，以支持他们的NSF资助的海洋研究项目(这些项目分别由NSF的相关研究计划单独审查)。对共用仪器的维护和操作的支持使美国国家科学基金会资助的任何美国大学或实验室的研究人员都可以为他们的研究使用经过校准的工作仪器，从而降低了研究成本，并扩大了潜在研究人员的基础。

University of Rhode Island proposes to support technical services on R/V Endeavor, a 184? general purpose research vessel operated as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System research fleet. The proposal requests support for basic services. They will provide one shipboard technician on each cruise of R/V Endeavor to support seagoing research projects and to maintain, calibrate and provide for qualified users items from their pool of shared-use research instrumentation.Broader ImpactsThe 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 support of 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.