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UNOLS Ship Time Request Form - Section ONE
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UNOLS Request ID #: 20060615201648JF
Version #: 003
Last Modified: 2007/07/05 13:57 EDT
Date Issued: 2010/02/09 20:11 EST
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P.I. Name Last: Charles First: Christopher MI: D
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Institution: Scripps Inst. of Oceanography, Research vessel required for:
University of California, San _ Ancillary Only
Diego X Principal Use
Address: 9500 Gilman Dr. _ No Ship Required
La Jolla, CA. 92093 _ Long Range Planning Document
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Phone: 858 534-5911 Fax: 858 822-3310 Email: ccharles@ucsd.edu
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Co P.I. Name Institution Co P.I. Name Institution
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Neal Driscoll S.I.O., UCSD
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Proposal Title:
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Collaborative research: Surveying the submerged coral reefs of the western
Indian Ocean--applications to sea level history, monsoon history, and
radiocarbon calibration
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Large Program Name: None Research Purpose: Geological Oceanography
If Other, specify: If Other, specify:
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New Proposal? N Agency Submitted to: Foreign EEZ? Y
Funded Grant? Y NSF/OCE/MGG Seychelles
Institutional Proposal #: Amount Requested: Area(s) of Operation:
57,971 IN1,IN2,IN3
Agency Proposal #:
Lat/Long:
Renewal? N Start Date: 8/1/2007 Begin: 5°S 54°E
Grant #: End Date: 7/31/2007 End: 6°S 57°E
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Ship(s) Requested # Science
Year (Name or Size) Days Req. Optimum Dates Alternate Dates
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2007 Roger Revelle 0 10/21/07-11/04/07
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Total Science & Ship Days Needed: --------------- PORTS ------------
0 Start: Intermediate: End:
Number in Science Party: Marmagoa, Mahe,
15 India Seychelles
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Equipment Required:
X Vans _ P-Code GPS _ MCS _ Alvin _ ABE
X Dynamic Positioning X Multibeam _ SCS _ ROV _ 680 Cond.
_ Helicopter Operation
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Other Special Equipment; Comments:
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UNOLS Ship Time Request Form - Section TWO
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Other Scientists Involved in Multi-P.I. Program:
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Name Institution Phone E-mail
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Neal Driscoll S.I.O., UCSD
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Are there special considerations of the science party or cruise scheduling?
Consider science time constraints; coordination of equipment shipping;
two-ship operations; weather windows; mooring turn-around; teaching schedules
and others that will affect scheduling decisions.
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SCUBA Diving? _ No _ Yes -- Designate Lead Institution:
# Individual dives: # Divers on board:
A list of all divers and their certification information must be submitted
to the ship's marine superintendent.
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Special Science Party Considerations
_ Foreign Nationals _ Medical Conditions _ Disabled Persons _ Other
Please explain:
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Use of Hazardous Materials? _ No _ Yes
If Yes, List type, quantity, and disposal plans:
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Radioactive? Type: Quantity:
Disposal Plan:
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Explosives? Type: Quantity:
Disposal Plan:
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Other? Type: Quantity:
Disposal Plan:
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Have you read the RVOC Safety Training Manual-Chapter 1? _ No _ Yes
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Technician Required (CTD, SCS, MSC, etc):
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Equipment to be used:
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Winches: Wire: Conductor Navigation: Communication:
X Dredge/Trawl Mechanical _ 0.680" _ GPS _ Inmarsat
X Hydro _ 9/16" _ 0.322" _ DGPS _ ATS
X CTD _ 1/2" _ .225" _ Loran _ FAX
_ Capstans _ 1/4" _ Single X Dynamic Positioning _ Cellular
_ Multi _ Other _ SEANET
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X 12 kHz Echosounder X Multibeam Sounder _ Air Compressor
X 3.5 kHz Echosounder _ Magnetometer
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Vans: Nets:
_ Pingers _ Refrigerated _ Dip net
X Gravity Corers _ Magazine _ Plankton
_ Piston Corers _ Isotope Isolation _ Neuston
_ Box Corers _ Lab _ Bongo
X Rock Dredges _ Storage _ Mid-water trawl
_ Airgun/watergun system _ Berthing _ MOCNESS
_ Explosive Handling Gear _ Chest Freezers (Size):
_ Thermometers _ Refrigerators _ Work boats
X CTD _ Computer/peripherals
X Rosette Sys. _ Auto Analyzer _ PC computers
_ Niskin bottles _ Salinometer _ SAIL system
Size: _ Nutrients _ Digital XBT
and number: _ Oxygen titration _ ADCP
_ Liquid Scintillation _ Gravimeter
_ Uncontaminated seawater _ IMET
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Other Special Equipment; Equipment Requiring Special Handling, Storage or
Installation; Comments:
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Revised Proposal is in connection with the following award of ship time:
To: C. Charles
Subj: UC Ship Funds request for use of R/V Roger Revelle in Indian Ocean,
2007, for study of sea level and climate history from sampling submerged coral
reefs of the west/central Indian Ocean
On advice of the UC/Revelle Ship Funds Panel, I am pleased to respond to your
request of March 31, 2006 with the assignment of 24 UC-funded days of use of
R/V Roger Revelle in the Indian Ocean in 2007. This includes pro-rata port
call days. A tentative schedule shows departure from Colombo on 6 August,
arrival in Mahe, Seychelles on 26 August, both at standard times of day. This
may not afford you all the time you sought to accomplish all your desired
sampling, but it is all that can be supported on grounds of cost and
scheduling.
The terms of this award and related considerations are:
1. Please complete a standard ship time request form if this has not been done
already:
http://www.gso.uri.edu/unols/ship/mainmenu.html
Please remain in contact with the ship schedulers to firm up the notional
timetable mentioned above. Be aware that the UC-supported time for your
project and others must fit reasonably into the overall, mainly
federally-funded, schedule of the ship for the year, and the latter is still a
work in progress to a degree, via the usual UNOLS mechanisms. Subsequent
changes are not out of the question.
2. The award is for the UC-funded days and for the associated standard
technical support charge for those days; this normally provides the service of
two STS technicians at sea. It appears from your request that this standard
charge will cover any equipment and services you envision, but you should
consult with Woody Sutherland, manager of STS, to make certain that this is so.
It is expected that other costs beyond the ship time and standard technical
service will be met from other fund sources. The assignments of UC-funded time
to your project and other succesful requests will put strong pressure on
available funds, so meeting other needs from other funds is very important, as
anticipated in point #5 of my intial Feb. 24 call for requests. As also
anticipated there, it is hoped that assignment of the UC ship-time and
technical service support now will give you sufficient lead time to seek and
secure any other support needed. You estimated such other support in your
request.
3. In the end, due to the large number of requests for UC ship time submitted
in this case, the success rate was only about 15%. I would therefore encourage
you to be as open and accommodating as possible, subject to proper prosecution
of your own project, to any non- or minimally-interfering ancillary projects
and colleagues that may approach you seeking to "piggyback" on this rare
geographic opportunity, particularly so for any elements of research and
education stemming from the unsuccessful requests.
4. As a condition of UC funding, the Panel now requires post-cruise submission
of a brief report on cruise activities and participants, in order to build a
better future database for examining how effectively these funds have been used
over time. Particulars are appended. Please note that in any particular case
some or many of the questions will not apply; we fully expect that some of your
entries will be "N/A."
Best wishes for a successful cruise,
Sincerely,
Bob Knox
Robert A. Knox
Research Oceanographer and Associate Director
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
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