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.

PIS请求资金，以开发具有生物地球化学采样能力的快速垂直分析的自动水下车辆。该系统将为Geotraces程序增加一个新的，急需的生物学维度，并很可能成为基因三体微生物和酶研究计划的核心工具 - 最终使微生物DNA，RNA和蛋白质的全球海洋映射，包括关键的生物质量酶。 PI将开发一种无线水列抽样技术：一种6000m额定自主垂直采样车辆，具有高吞吐量采样和有效载荷。快速垂直传输，6000 m深度范围以及在众多目标深度停止的需要代表了一个新颖而重要的工程挑战，并开发了具有基因环境所需的采样能力的“ - 多”取样的目标。这是社会重要性的，因为了解海洋，庞大的幅度以及其在全​​球过程中的作用将不仅仅需要船只和系泊设备，因此它将从许多部分的海洋中采集样本及其分析，许多技术用于许多不同的分析物。该项目还将在高级工程设计课程期间，连续两支来自史密斯学院的Picker工程计划的本科女性工程专业学生团队。这被视为真正的优势和创新的外展工作。过去，PI非常成功地做到了这一点。