ANNOUNCEMENT

NOBEL PRIZE 2026

This year's laureates, their fields, and the discoveries that earned them the prize.Live nowSee the winners
Moonbase
← Back to Awards
NSFDirectorate for Geosciences

Equipment: Scripps Institution of Oceanography - Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment

Completed
Institution
University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, CA
Principal investigator
Terry B Appelgate
Funding
$1.0M
Duration
2023–2026
Open portfolio

Moonbase score

Still being scored

Abstract

Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) requests funds for shipboard scientific support equipment that is needed to carry out NSF-supported scientific research. Working within the collaborative framework of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS), the proposed equipment will be maintained by the SIO ship operations department for use by NSF-supported scientists from institutions nationwide who require these seagoing facilities. With this proposal, SIO provides technical descriptions and rationale for the acquisition of the following Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment: 1) Mooring winch for West Coast Winch Pool $399,249 2) General purpose winch OS-42 for BIOS $396,965 3) Management of procurement, testing, shipping, and installation $156,014 4) Markey Remote Access Systems on Roger Revelle and Sally Ride $13,826 5) Overboarding block for Robert Gordon Sproul $13,617 6) IDC $28,818 $1,008,489 Broader Impacts The principal impact of the present proposal is under Merit Review Criterion 2 of the Proposal Guidelines (NSF 19-602). It provides infrastructure support for scientists to use the vessel and its shared-use instrumentation in support of their NSF-funded oceanographic research projects (which individually undergo separate review by the relevant research program of NSF). The acquisition, maintenance and operation of shared-use instrumentation allows NSF-funded researchers from any US university or lab access to working, calibrated instruments for their research, reducing the cost of that research, and expanding the base of potential researchers. 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.

Research team

  • Terry B AppelgatePI
  • Joost Van Der ZwaagCo-PI

LOADING MOONBASE SCORE

Directorate for GeosciencesSHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUIequipmentinstrumentationscrippsoceanographyshared-usensf-fundedoceanographicnsf-supported

Questions for University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography

Answered by the team behind this research.

Same researchers, same institution, same topic, scored first.