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

俄勒冈州州立大学建议支持R/V Oceanus的技术服务，一个177？通用研究船作为美国学术船队的一部分，由大学-国家海洋学实验室系统（UNOLS）计划。 该船由国家科学基金会拥有。该提案要求对基本服务和专门服务提供支助。 在基本服务方面，它们将为“海洋”号研究船的每次航行提供一名或两名船上技术员，以支持海上研究项目，并维护、校准和向合格用户提供共用研究仪器中的物品。 作为专门服务的一部分，他们将继续运营和维护NORCOR设施，这是一个供所有运营商使用的共用取芯设施。SWAP方案以前作为一项专门服务在该方案下供资，将停止实施。预算限制使该方案无法继续支持这一奋进。它将尽可能通过基本服务得到支持。 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。

Oregon State University proposes to support technical services on R/V Oceanus, a 177? general purpose research vessel as part of the US Academic Fleet scheduled by University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS). The vessel is owned by the National Science Foundation. 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 Oceanus 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 continue to operate and maintain the NORCOR facility, a shared use coring facility available to all operators. The SWAP program, which was previously funded under this program as a specialized service will be discontinued. Budget constraints have made it impossible for the Program to continue to support this endeavor. It will be supported, to the extent possible, through basic services. The budget included with this report 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.