Collaborative Research: An Autonomous Vertical Sampling Vehicle for Global Ocean Biogeochemical Mapping

合作研究：用于全球海洋生物地球化学测绘的自主垂直采样车

• 批准号: 1334727
• 负责人: Gregory Dick
• 金额: $ 8.25万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1334727&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Autonomous; Vertical; Sampling

The PIs request funding to develop a rapid vertical profiling autonomous underwater vehicle with biogeochemical sampling capabilities. This system will add a new, and much needed, biological dimension to the GEOTRACES program, and would most likely become the central instrument for a GENOTRACES microbial and enzymes research initiative - ultimately enabling the global marine mapping of microbial DNA, RNA and proteins, including key biogeochemical enzymes. The PIs will develop a wireless water-column sampling technology: a 6000m rated autonomous vertical sampling vehicle with a high throughput sampling and sensing payload. The combinationof rapid vertical transport, the 6000 m depth range, and the need to stop at numerous target depths represents a novel and significant engineering challenge and developing a vehicle capable of this task with the sampling capacity needed for GENOTRACES "-omic" sampling is the objective of this proposal.Broader Impacts: This project leads oceanic sample collection into the future where they will need to be collected from a variety of autonomous platforms. This is of great societal importance because understanding the ocean, its sheer magnitude, and its role in global processes will require more than ships and moorings, it will take samples from many parts of the ocean and their analysis by many techniques for many different analytes. This project will also sponsor two consecutive teams of undergraduate female engineering students from Smith College's Picker Engineering Program during their senior engineering design course. This is seen as a real plus and an innovative outreach effort. The PI has very successfully done this in the past.

PI 请求资金开发具有生物地球化学采样能力的快速垂直剖面自主水下航行器。该系统将为 GEOTRACES 计划添加一个新的、急需的生物学维度，并且很可能成为 GENOTRACES 微生物和酶研究计划的核心仪器 - 最终实现微生物 DNA、RNA 和蛋白质的全球海洋绘图，包括关键的生物地球化学酶。 PI 将开发无线水柱采样技术：具有高吞吐量采样和传感有效载荷的 6000m 额定自动垂直采样车。快速垂直运输、6000 米深度范围以及需要在多个目标深度停止的组合代表了一项新颖且重大的工程挑战，开发一种能够完成这项任务并具有 GENOTRACES“-omic”采样所需采样能力的车辆是当务之急。该提案的目标。更广泛的影响：该项目将海洋样本收集带入未来，未来将需要从各种自主平台收集这些样本。这具有重要的社会重要性，因为了解海洋、其巨大规模及其在全球过程中的作用需要的不仅仅是船舶和系泊装置，还需要从海洋的许多部分采集样本，并通过多种技术对许多不同的分析物进行分析。该项目还将连续赞助两支来自史密斯学院皮克工程项目的女本科生工程系学生参加高级工程设计课程。这被视为一个真正的优势和创新的外展工作。 PI 过去已经非常成功地做到了这一点。