Ship Operations R/V Point Sur 2012 - 2016

该合同将在NSF合作协议OCE- 0505385的续签下，为五年的第一个项目提供资金。船舶奖励将每年重新协商，并基于支持NSF资助的研究项目的船舶时间的天数。R/V Pt. Sur是一艘nsf拥有的研究船，由Moss Landing海洋实验室作为大学-国家海洋实验室系统（UNOLS）研究船队的一部分运营。2012年，Pt. Sur预计运行102天，其中72天将直接支持NSF同行评审的海上工作。自1986年以来，R/V Point Sur已成功由Moss Landing Marine Laboratories （MLML）运营。MLML位于加利福尼亚州中部蒙特利湾，位于深海底蒙特利峡谷的顶端，与加利福尼亚州中部海岸的各种沿海，峡谷和近海研究地点有着独特的接近性。R/V Point Sur继续为来自世界各地的机构以及与蒙特利湾新月海洋研究联盟（MBCORC）相关的机构的科学家提供服务。2012年期间，R/V Point Sur将为由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）、海军研究办公室（ONR）、蒙特利湾水族馆研究所（MBARI）、陆军工程兵团、MLML和加州州立大学系统联盟校园资助的若干研究和海洋科学教育项目提供船舶时间。该提案要求提供必要的资金，以支持我们在海上95天总计划中的63天的NSF部分。这些NSF日包括4个离散的巡航。其中两艘游轮是该船的重复用户（Bishop和McPhee-Shaw），而其余的游轮将是新的。这些巡航中的第一次将把船带离俄勒冈州海岸，进行CTD和中水拖网作业。第二次巡航是从该船的母港到智利的蓬塔阿雷纳斯。这次过境是一个更大项目的一部分，该项目涉及南极洲帕尔默站的科学支持。这是该船有史以来最长、最具后勤挑战性的一次航行。目前的提案中已包括资金，以帮助为这项工作准备船只。更广泛的影响：莫斯兰汀海洋实验室继续成功地推进加州州立大学综合海岸观测、研究和教育计划中心（CI-CORE, http://www.mlml.calstate.edu/cicore/）和海岸技术联盟计划（ACT, http://www.actonline.ws/）。作为这两项工作的关键合作伙伴，MLML已获得资助（不向NSF提供费用），为我们的许多船只提供正在进行的地表水参数（温度，盐度，荧光，氧气和浊度）测量仪器。作为CI-CORE项目的一部分，这些数据将被格式化并在我们的网站上提供给教育工作者、科学家、政策制定者和公众。其他各种联邦、州和私人支持的工作也包括在时间表中。MBARI在蒙特利湾口附近和近海维护几个系泊阵列，这些阵列将使用R/V Point Sur进行维护。MLML将使用大约10天的船时间来支持加利福尼亚州立大学（CSU）的班级巡游和论文工作，为研究生和本科生提供宝贵的实地时间来收集班级项目的数据。这些课程包括物理、化学和生物海洋学、地质学、鱼类学、底栖生态学和海洋哺乳动物行为。科罗拉多州立大学的几位教师利用这些课堂巡游来帮助教育大专和高中学生。过去，我们还向当地中学生和他们的父母开放了R/V Point Sur，让他们在码头边参观，并非正式地谈论当地的海洋环境。

This award will fund the first of five years of operation under a renewal of the NSF Cooperative Agreement, OCE- 0505385. Ship awards will be renegotiated each year and is based on the number of days of ship time in support of NSF funded research programs. R/V Pt. Sur, a NSF-owned research vessel, is operated as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) research fleet by Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. In 2012, Pt. Sur anticipates operating 102 days, of which 72 days will be in direct support of NSF peer-reviewed sea-going work. R/V Point Sur has been successfully operated by Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML) since 1986. MLML is located in Central California on the Monterey Bay at the head of the deep undersea Monterey canyon and has unique proximity to a wide variety of coastal, canyon and offshore study sites along the Central CA coast The R/V Point Sur continues to serve scientists from institutions around the world as well as institutions associated with the Monterey Bay Crescent Ocean Research Consortium (MBCORC). During 2012 the R/V Point Sur will provide ship time for several research and marine science educational programs funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), the Army Corps of Engineers, MLML and consortium campuses of the California State University system. This proposal requests the funding necessary to support the NSF portion of our operation that amounts to 63 days out of a total schedule of 95 days at sea. These NSF days encompass 4 discrete cruises. Two of these cruises are repeat users of the vessel (Bishop and McPhee-Shaw) while the remaining cruises will be new. The first of these cruises will take the ship off the coast of Oregon for CTD and mid-water trawling operations. The second cruise represents a transit from the vessels homeport to Punta Arenas, Chile. This transit is part of a larger project that involves science support at Palmer Station, Antarctica. This represents one of the longest and most logistically challenging cruises the vessel has ever undertaken. Funds have been included in the current proposal to help prepare the vessel for this work. Broader Impacts: The Moss Landing Marine Laboratories continues to be successful in advancing the California State University's Center for Integrative Coastal Observation, Research and Education program (CI-CORE, http://www.mlml.calstate.edu/cicore/) and the Alliance for Coastal Technologies program (ACT, http://www.actonline.ws/). As a key partner in both these efforts MLML has been funded (at no cost to NSF) to provide instrumentation for the underway measurement of surface water parameters (temperature, salinity, fluorescence, oxygen, and turbidity) from a number of our vessels. As part of the CI-CORE program these data will be formatted and made available on our web site for educators, scientists, policy makers and the public. Various other Federal, State and private supported work is also included in the schedule. The MBARI maintains several moored arrays near the mouth of the Monterey Bay and offshore that will be serviced using the R/V Point Sur. MLML will use approximately 10 days of ship time in support of class cruises and thesis work for the California State Universities (CSU) providing graduate and undergraduate students valuable field time to gather data for class projects. These classes include physical, chemical and biological oceanography, geology, ichthyology, benthic ecology and marine mammal behavior. Several CSU instructors have taken advantage of these class cruises by using them to help educate junior college and high school students as well. In the past weve also opened the R/V Point Sur to local middle school students and their parents for dockside tours and informal talks about the local ocean environment.