Oceanographic Technical Support Aboard U.S. Academic Research Fleet

Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) will support oceanographic technical services on R/V Roger Revelle, R/V Sally Ride, and R/V Robert Gordon Sproul, operated as part of the U.S. Academic Research Fleet (ARF), which is scheduled by the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS). As part of the basic operations, shipboard technicians will be provided on each seagoing research project to support basic services. Technicians will maintain, calibrate and provide for qualified users, items from the pool of shared-use research instrumentation, including sea floor sampling equipment, CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) sensors, meteorological sensors, and underway sampling sensors. Research vessels in the ARF provide support for researchers from a variety of institutions. The principal impact of this project is providing infrastructure support for scientists to use the vessel and its shared-use instrumentation in support of their NSF-funded oceanographic research projects. The acquisition, maintenance and operation of shared-use instrumentation allows NSF-funded researchers from any institution access to working, calibrated instruments for their research, reducing the cost of that research, and expanding the base of 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. NSF Award ID: 2410579 | Program: 01002829DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT,01002627DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT,01002728DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT,01003031DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT,01002930DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT | Principal Investigator: Terry Appelgate | Institution: University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, LA JOLLA, CA | Award Amount: $1,464,923 View on NSF Award Search: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award/?AWD_ID=2410579 View on Research.gov: https://www.research.gov/awardapi-service/v1/awards/2410579.html