Oceanographic Technical Support 2018-2022 - R/V Kilo Moana

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。在今年之前，该机构还支持了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，但确实支持一些联邦资助的研究，包括为国家科学基金会的一些研究。作为专门服务，他们评估安装在联合国难民事务高级专员办事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。这项提案所包括的预算是为期五年的连续赠款的第一年。本提案的主要影响是根据提案指南(NSF 13-589)的功绩审查标准2。它为科学家提供基础设施支持，以使用该船及其共享仪器，以支持他们由NSF资助的海洋研究项目(这些项目单独接受NSF相关研究计划的单独审查)。共享仪器的获取、维护和操作允许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获得用于其研究的工作、校准的仪器，从而降低研究成本，并扩大潜在研究人员的基础。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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, before this year, also supported 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 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 in a five-year continuing grant. The out-years are estimates.Broader Impacts The principal impact of the present proposal is under Merit Review Criterion 2 of the Proposal Guidelines (NSF 13-589). It provides 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 acquisition, 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.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.