R/V Kilo Moana CTD Winch and Launch and Recovery System

夏威夷大学申请501,697美元，用于购买、制造和安装科考船Kilo Moana的CTD绞车。海军研究办公室（ONR）正在为配套的发射和回收系统（LARS）提供资金。Kilo Moana是一艘通用研究船，是美国学术研究船队（ARF）的一部分，由美国大学-国家海洋实验室系统（UNOLS）提供支持。由NSF、ONR、NOAA、NASA和其他联邦和州机构资助的学术研究人员可以使用船舶时间。“基洛莫阿纳”号在太平洋中部水深达6000米的深水区进行CTD作业。这些作业需要一种安全、高效、可靠的方式将CTD花环从船舶甲板运送到水中。更广泛的影响本提案的主要影响是根据提案指南（NSF 13-589）的优点评审标准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国家科学基金会资助的海洋学研究项目（这些项目单独接受国家科学基金会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任何美国大学或实验室的nsf资助的研究人员为他们的研究访问工作、校准仪器，降低研究成本，并扩大潜在研究人员的基础。本项目由NSF/GEO/OCE/IPS和EPSCoR （Established Program to incentive Competitive Research）联合资助。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

The University of Hawaii requests $501,697 for the purchase, fabrication, and installation of a CTD winch for the Research Vessel Kilo Moana. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is providing funding for an accompanying launch and recovery system (LARS). The Kilo Moana is a general-purpose research vessel operated under a charter party agreement with ONR as part of the US Academic Research Fleet (ARF) which is supported by the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS). Ship time is made available to academic researchers funded by the NSF, ONR, NOAA, NASA, and other federal and state agencies. The R/V Kilo Moana conducts a substantial portion of CTD operations in deep water, up to 6,000 meters depth in the mid-Pacific Ocean. These operations require a safe, efficient, and reliable means for transporting the CTD rosette from the deck of the ship into the water.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 project is jointly funded by NSF/GEO/OCE/IPS and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.