Oceanographic Technical Services,R/V Savannah, 2012-2016

斯基德韦海洋学研究所（格鲁吉亚大学）建议支持R/V萨凡纳，一个92？联合国海洋和海洋法办事处的通用研究船，作为大学-国家海洋学实验室系统研究船队的一部分。 他们将为大多数航行提供一名技术员，以维护和协助科学家在海上使用共用仪器。 技术服务组将维护、校准和向合格用户提供共用研究仪器库中的项目。 更广泛的影响本提案的主要影响是在标准二下，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，以支持他们的NSF资助的海洋学研究项目（这些项目单独接受NSF相关研究计划的单独审查）。 对共享使用仪器的维护和操作的支持允许来自任何美国大学或实验室的NSF资助的研究人员访问工作，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。所有用户（或适当的资助机构）平等地分享对船舶基本技术服务的支持，NSF根据船舶在一年中的部分使用情况支付一部分技术支持费用。

Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (University of Georgia) proposes to support technical services on R/V Savannah, a 92? general purpose UNOLS research vessel operated as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System research fleet. They will provide a technician on most cruises to maintain and assist scientists in the use of shared-use instrumentation at sea. The technical services group will maintain, calibrate and provide for qualified users items from their pool of shared-use research instrumentation. The budget in this proposal is for the first year of a 5-year continuing grant.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. All users (or the appropriate funding agencies) share support for basic technical services on the vessel equally, with NSF paying a share of technical support costs based on fractional usage of the vessel during the year.