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

路易斯安那大学海洋联盟(LUMCON)提议支持R/V鹈鹕的技术服务，这是一艘116英尺的通用研究船，由该联盟运营，作为大学-国家海洋实验室系统研究船队的一部分。他们只要求为基本服务提供支持；他们将为每个海洋研究项目提供一名技术人员。此外，技术服务小组将维护、校准和向符合条件的用户提供其共享研究仪器池中的物品。这份报告包括的预算是为期4年的连续资助的第一年。2012年，鹈鹕没有NSF的日子。学术舰队中的所有其他船只在2012年提交了为期5年的连续拨款的第一年的提案。然而，对于LUMCON来说，2012年没有颁发任何奖项。为了使所有船只在技术服务持续资助的期限方面保持一致，建议将此奖励作为为期四年的持续资助的第一年。该计划于2013年1月18日收到建议书。按照要求，该提案提供了有关2012年业务的资料，并概述了2013年的计划和拟议预算。学术舰队中的研究船为来自各种联邦和州机构的研究人员以及一些私人赞助商提供支持。所有用户(或适当的供资机构)通过日间费率平等分担船舶基本技术服务的支助，每个用户根据船舶的部分使用量支付一定份额的费用。费率每年与NSF项目经理谈判。广泛影响本提案的主要影响是在标准2下，为科学家提供基础设施支持，以使用该船及其共享仪器来支持他们由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。

Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) proposes to support technical services on R/V Pelican, a 116 foot, general purpose research vessel operated by the consortium as part of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System research fleet. They request support for basic services only; they will provide one technician on each seagoing research project. In addition, the technical services group will maintain, calibrate and provide for qualified users items from their pool of shared-use research instrumentation. The budget included with this report is for the first year of a 4-year continuing grant.In 2012, Pelican had no days for NSF. All other vessels in the Academic Fleet submitted proposals in 2012 for the first year of a 5-year continuing grant. For LUMCON, however, there was no award made in 2012. In order to keep all vessels on the same schedule with regards to the length of the technical services continuing grants, this award is proposed as the first year of a four-year continuing grant.The Program received the proposal on 1/18/2013. As required, the proposal provided information regarding 2012 operations as well as outlining plans and a proposed budget for 2013. Research vessels in the Academic Fleet provide support for researchers from a variety of federal and state agencies, as well as some private sponsors. All users (or the appropriate funding agencies) share support for basic technical services on the vessel equally, via a day-rate, with each paying a share of the costs based on fractional usage of the vessel. The rates are negotiated annually with the NSF Program Manager.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.