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3 The Current Landscape: Alignment of Current Ocean Research Infrastructure with the Decadal Science Priorities
3 The Current Landscape: Alignment of Current Ocean Research Infrastructure with the Decadal Science Priorities
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has been able to initiate new Submergence Facility (NDSF) , scientific ocean drilling, the technologies and sustain research facilities, in addition to Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)
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2015-2019 projections assume flat budgets with no inflationary increases. OCE defines "infrastructure" as the academic research fleet, OOI, scientific ocean drilling, field stations and marine laboratories, the accelerator mass spectrometer facility, and miscellaneous smaller facilities.
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Shore-Based Facilities National Ocean Sciences Accelerator 1991 AMS/IPS $2.5 million Mass Spectrometry Facility Databases and CLIVAR and Carbon Hydrographic Data 2004 PO $400,000-500,000 Repositories Office Biological and Chemical Oceanography 2006 BO/CO $1.6 million Data Management Office Scientific Ocean Drilling Core MGG ~$800,000 Repository Geoinformatics Facilities Support 2010 EAR/MGG ~$1.3 million for MGG; $0.7 million for EAR Community Surface Dynamics Modeling 2006 EAR/MGG ~$500,000 for MGG; System ~$500,000 for EAR Time Series Hawaii Ocean Time-Series (HOT) 1988 BO/CO/PO ~$1.6 million Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series (BATS)
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TABLE 3-2 Alignment of Current NSF-Funded Major Ocean Research Infrastructure to the Eight Decadal Science Priorities. 42 Coastal and Ocean and climate Biodiversity and Subseafloor Sea level change Marine food webs Ocean basins Geohazards estuarine oceans variability marine ecosystems environment Global/Ocean C I C C/I C/I C C C Regional/Coastal I C C/I C C 3-D Seismic Ship C/I C I Fleet and Other Ships Ice-Capable C/I I C C/I C/I I JOIDES Resolution I I C C C IODP Coastal I I I Global OOI I Cabled I I I Alvin I I I ROVs I I C Vehicles AUVs I I I I Gliders I I I I OBSs I C Other Field Stations / Marine Labs I C I C C/I Argo, tide gauges, River gauges, hydrologic Argo, modeling, surface Fisheries surveys and Fisheries surveys and Global seismograph Interferometric synthetic Sequencing facilities, satellites, ice-ocean models, satellites, coring weather analyses, vessels, sequencing vessels, taxonomy, arrays, magnetotellurics, aperture radar, seafloor manned/unmanned models, coring facilities facilities and core satellites, coring facilities, isotope facilities, manned/unmanned geodesy, satellites, vehicles, Chikyu , MSPs and core repositories, repositories facilities and core manned/unmanned manned/unmanned vehicles, Chikyu , MSPs magnetotellurics, coring, Other Critical or Important mission-specific drilling repositories, acoustic vehicles, satellites vehicles, satellites manned/unmanned Infrastructure Assets platforms (MSPs)
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However, they have not between infrastructure and the decadal science questions: lessened the reliance on highly capable ships. For example, critical, important, supportive, or not relevant.
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The Ocean class ships Ride and Armstrong -- with shorter lengths, smaller numbers of berths, 1,800 and day rates comparable to or higher than existing Globals -- 1,600 were planned as the next generation of large general-purpose vessels. Their completion is coinciding with the retirement Total Ship Days 1,400 of two Global class vessels (Melville and Knorr)
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NOTE: Abbreviations as follows: Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) , Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO)
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avoided through overall reductions in the number of vessels. The Global class vessels are either critical or important for For FY2014, the provisional NSF contribution to the all decadal science priorities (Table 3-2)
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Because Ride and Armstrong will not be The scientific ocean drilling programs have generally available until 2015, it is difficult to predict their use at this been regarded as "infrastructure heavy." By design, most time or their ability to approach the capabilities of retiring direct IODP funding is allocated for facilities and operaGlobal class vessels. In addition, specialized ships (such as tions.
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Science Support Program, and a 2013 FY2015 JOIDES Resolution operations (Brazil and China, cooperative agreement with Scripps Institution of Oceanography for $3 million each; Australia and New Zealand, $1.5 million an IODP Support Office during the transition between programs. combined; India and Korea, $1 million each; and ECORD, It does not include individual science grants related to IODP that originate from core programs.
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are maintained, the committee urges NSF to evaluate whether the subscription costs for international partners to sail on the JOIDES Resolution are appropriately priced. In addition, Alignment with the Science Priorities private entities or nations purchasing expeditions through the Based on the committee's analysis, scientific ocean CPP mechanism appear to mainly be paying the incremental drilling capabilities are critical to decadal science priorities cost of operations instead of the full O&M and transit costs related to the formation of ocean basins, characterization of of the facility.
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: a cabled observatory, two coastal arrays, four global-scale high-lati 2 tude moorings, and cyberinfrastructure. Although NSF views OOI as a "networked ocean research observatory," the com 0 mittee noted that, although there are common specifications Papa Irminger ArgenƟne Southern Pioneer Endurance Cabled and sensors, the components are geographically separated Arrays and have distinct research functions.
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. The coastal arrays are important Cabled Array program and the Center for Environmental Visualiza for the decadal science priorities related to sea level rise, tion, University of Washington.
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The construction phase included commercially the Northern Hemisphere sites also have the advantage of available instruments, strong scientific oversight through being somewhat less expensive to maintain. annual reports from the EarthScope Facilities Executive Committee (members included the project director and repre sentatives and principal investigators for the three facilities)
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Navy owned, the R/V Jason can be deployed from Ocean or Global class vessels. Atlantis.
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The 2014 provisional day rates for the vehicles studying coastal oceans, biodiversity, marine food webs, and are $16,000 for Alvin, $23,000 for Jason, and $14,000 for ocean basins. Gliders are important for addressing questions Sentry.13 Operations and maintenance are continual for Jason related to sea level change, the coastal ocean environment, and Sentry, with costs that are included in the vehicle day climate variability, and biodiversity.
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could deliver increased value and utilization for NSF-supported infrastructure and COST VERSUS RELEVANCE FOR NSF-SUPPORTED could also provide opportunities to include other agencies INFRASTRUCTURE in pooling equipment and sharing costs. This chapter evaluated the alignment of current NSF supported ocean research infrastructure to the eight priority OTHER FACILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE decadal science questions, with high-relevance infrastruc ture labeled as critical or important to achieving the sciField Stations and Marine Laboratories ence priorities.
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2011b. Scientific Ocean Drilling: Accomplishments and Challenges.
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