{"id":142057,"date":"2019-04-18T15:21:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T19:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?page_id=142057"},"modified":"2020-10-13T11:06:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T15:06:50","slug":"built-for-scientists","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/research\/narragansett-dawn\/built-for-scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Built for Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"type-intro\">When defining a new kind of ship to join the U.S. Academic Research Fleet, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/geo\/oce\/about.jsp\">Division of Ocean Sciences<\/a> at the National Science Foundation polled the science community. What must a Regional Class Research Vessel (RCRV), operating during the middle of the 21st-century, be able to do? What oceanographic research operations will be the most significant and frequently performed?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-142096 size-full_column\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/deploying-a-rosette-1000x563.jpg\" alt=\"Two women prepare a CTD Cast\" width=\"1000\" height=\"460\"><\/p>\n<p>In its design criteria, NSF specified that new RCRVs must, at a minimum, enable the following functions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sample and collect data of surface, mid-water, and sea floor parameters using modern scientific laboratories and instrumentation, including portable laboratory vans<\/li>\n<li>Deploy and recover&#8230;<br \/>\n\u2013 scientific packages, both tethered and autonomous<br \/>\n\u2013 unmanned aerial systems (UASs) and weather balloons<br \/>\n\u2013 moorings and coring equipment<br \/>\n\u2013 small craft, including autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs)<br \/>\n\u2013 free-floating instruments<\/li>\n<li>Perform acoustic, multibeam bottom mapping and sub-bottom profiling<\/li>\n<li>Handle, monitor, and service remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)<\/li>\n<li>Provide full-time, high-speed satellite connectivity for communications, internet access and data transfer, including telepresence between researchers at sea and colleagues, students and the general public on shore<\/li>\n<li>Navigate precisely for station-keeping and track-line maneuvering to support deep sea and coastal operations<\/li>\n<li>Operate for long periods on-station or underway at low speeds for towing and bathymetric surveys<\/li>\n<li>Provide access to the sea for scientific personnel with visual, hearing or mobility limitations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The final design trades away reliance on larger, traditional fixed laboratories in favor of a mix of flexible fixed-laboratory space and a large, open aft deck that can accommodate more laboratory vans to suit the mission at hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When defining a new kind of ship to join the U.S. Academic Research Fleet, the Division of Ocean Sciences at the National Science Foundation polled the science community. What must a Regional Class Research Vessel (RCRV), operating during the middle of the 21st-century, be able to do? What oceanographic research operations will be the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2120,"featured_media":0,"parent":140821,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-142057","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142057"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142291,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142057\/revisions\/142291"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}