Management of West Coast Winch Pool 2018-2022

斯克里普斯海洋学研究所要求提供资金，该研究所负责维护大学-国家海洋学实验室系统（UNOLS）西海岸绞车池，以造福美国海洋科学家。 绞车池是一个共用设施，用于采购、维护、升级和提供各种便携式海洋绞车，供科学家在各种研究船上使用。 该池目前包括一台深海牵引绞车、三台轻型绞车、四台通用系泊绕线机、一台大型系泊绕线机、一台双筒绞盘和一套张紧钢丝绕线系统。 绞车是按照联合国后勤支助处实行的基于社区的调度方法共用的。更广泛的影响本提案的主要影响是根据提案指南（NSF 13-589）的优点审查标准2。它为科学家提供基础设施支持，以使用该船及其共享使用的仪器来支持他们的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）。 共享使用仪器的获取、维护和操作允许来自美国任何大学或实验室的NSF资助的研究人员使用工作、校准的仪器进行研究，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知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Funding is requested for Scripps Institution of Oceanography who maintains the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS) West Coast Winch Pool for the benefit of U.S. ocean scientists. The winch pool is a shared-use facility that procures, maintains, upgrades, and makes available a variety of portable oceanographic winches that are used by scientists aboard a broad range of research vessels. The pool currently includes a deep-sea traction winch, three light-duty winches, four general purpose mooring spoolers, one large mooring spooler, a double-barrel capstan, and a tensioning wire spooling system. Winches are shared following community-based scheduling methods run by UNOLS. Broader ImpactsThe 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.