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

特拉华大学建议支持R/V休·R·夏普的技术服务，这是一款146？2006年初作为大学-国家海洋实验室系统研究船队的一部分开始运营的通用研究船。它由特拉华大学拥有和运营。该提案要求为基本服务和专门服务提供支助。对于基本服务，他们将在R/V Sharp的每次巡航上提供一到两名船上技术人员，以支持海上研究项目，并维护、校准和提供来自他们的共用研究仪器池中的合格用户物品。作为专业服务的一部分，他们将维护和操作一辆带有海洋传感器的起伏拖曳车辆。这项提案包括的预算是为期5年的连续拨款的第一年。广泛影响本提案的主要影响是在标准2下，为科学家使用该船及其共享仪器提供基础设施支持，以支持他们由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 Delaware proposes to support technical services on R/V Hugh R. Sharp, a 146? general purpose research vessel which began operation in early 2006 as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System research fleet. It is owned and operated by the University of Delaware. The proposal requests support for both basic and specialized services. For basic services, they will provide one or two shipboard technicians on each cruise of R/V Sharp to support seagoing research projects and to maintain, calibrate and provide for qualified users items from their pool of shared-use research instrumentation. As part of specialized services, they will maintain and operate an undulating towed vehicle with oceanographic sensors. The budget included with 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.