Oceanographic Technical Services, R/V Kilo Moana, 2012-2016

夏威夷大学提议支持R/V Kilo Moana(KM)的技术服务，这款185？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和专门服务提供支助。对于基本服务，他们将在R/V Kilo Moana号上的每次巡航上配备两名船上技术人员，以支持海上研究项目，并维护、校准和向合格用户提供其共用研究仪器池中的物品。该机构还支持卡伊米凯奥卡纳罗亚号(KOK)上的一些行动，该船不是联合国难民事务高级专员办事处的船只，但确实支持联邦资助的一些研究，包括为国家科学基金会的一些研究。作为专门服务，它们提供两个拖曳海底测绘系统(夏威夷MR1和IMI-30)，用于浅水或深水拖曳成像和水深测量，它们还提供服务，以评估安装在联合国海上行动处船只上的声学海流剖面仪的数据质量，并继续支持全逃亡的ADCP标准化和质量控制监督方案。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 Hawaii proposes to support technical services on R/V Kilo Moana (KM), a 185? general purpose research vessel operated as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System research fleet. The proposal requests support for basic services and specialized services. For basic services, they will provide two shipboard technicians on each cruise on R/V Kilo Moana to support seagoing research projects and to maintain, calibrate and provide for qualified users items from their pool of shared-use research instrumentation. The Institution also supports some operations on the R/V Ka`imikai O Kanaloa (KOK), which is not a UNOLS vessel, but does support some federally sponsored research, including some for NSF. As specialized services, they offer two towed seafloor mapping systems (HAWAII MR1 and IMI-30) for shallow- or deep-towed imaging and bathymetry, and they provide services to evaluate the quality of data from acoustic current profilers installed on UNOLS vessels as well as continue to support a flee-wide ADCP standardization and quality control oversight program. 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.