MRI:Acquisition of Ocean Gliders for Marine Science Research Support at the University of the Virgin Islands

MRI：采购海洋滑翔机以支持维尔京群岛大学的海洋科学研究

• 批准号: 2216150
• 负责人: William Wilson
• 金额: $ 84.06万
• 依托单位: University of The Virgin Islands
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2216150&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Acquisition; Ocean; Gliders; Marine

The PI’s request funding to acquire two gliders with CTD and ADCP to provide the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI) with the capability to support integrated ocean research and education at UVI and within the Eastern Caribbean region. Gliders provide a way to collect open ocean and near-shelf measurements without large research vessels. UVI researchers have existing projects that would benefit from regional offshore glider data. A glider program would create new student educational and research opportunities for learning about physical oceanography, ocean observing, and integrating ocean physics into marine science and other disciplines. Gliders are excellent training tools. By learning how to pilot the gliders, the students become both the scientist and ship captain for planning research. Creating a hands-on glider program UVI will have a positive impact on students’ (including minorities) education in marine science.UVI scientists have identified numerous research projects that would benefit from glider data including spawning and behavior of commercially important fish species; understanding of temperature and salinity variability at the shelf break and its importance to coral health; longer-term climatological impacts on coral reefs, internal wave variability and ecosystem impacts at the shelf break; improved US Caribbean ROMS models; studing energetics of the internal wave fields and their role in regional ocean dynamics; studies of Caribbean heat and fresh water fluxes; studies of ocean circulation and hurricane intensification; animal tracking and acoustics; and ongoing ocean acidification and productivity research.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.

PI 请求提供资金购买两架配备 CTD 和 ADCP 的滑翔机，以使维尔京群岛大学 (UVI) 能够支持 UVI 和东加勒比地区的综合海洋研究和教育。滑翔机提供了一种收集公海的方法。 UVI 研究人员现有的项目将受益于区域近海滑翔机数据，从而为学生创造新的教育和研究机会，以学习物理海洋学、海洋观测和综合海洋物理学。滑翔机是很好的培训工具，通过学习如何驾驶滑翔机，学生可以成为规划研究的科学家和船长，创建实践滑翔机项目将对学生产生积极的影响。 UVI科学家已经确定了许多可以从滑翔机数据中受益的研究项目，包括具有重要商业价值的鱼类的产卵和行为；了解陆架断裂处的温度和盐度变化及其对珊瑚健康的重要性； -学期对珊瑚礁的气候影响、陆架断裂处的内波变化和生态系统影响；研究内波场的能量学及其在加勒比海热和淡水通量研究中的作用；该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。