Acquisition of Shipboard Instrumentation by the EAGLE Consortium for Interdisciplinary Geosciences Research and Research Training Aboard Explorer of the Seas

University Of Miami, Coral Gables FL

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Abstract

0079722 Brown This Major Research Instrumentation award to University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences provides funds for acquisition of oceanographic, meteorological and atmospheric chemistry instrumentation for installation on a commercial cruise ship operating in the eastern Caribbean Sea and adjacent Atlantic Ocean. Instrumentation will be operated by technicians provided by University of Miami, and will record data from weekly repeat tracks that cross major oceanographic boundaries and traverse through an important zone of atmospheric variability. Instrumentation to be acquired with NSF support includes a wind profiler, pyranometer, photometers, nephelometer, condensation particle counters, CO and ozone analyzers, sea water fluorometer and other items; additional oceanographic and atmospheric sensors are being provided with separate support by NOAA and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, the vessel operator. In addition to recording data with the sensors supported here, the University of Miami personnel will include public outreach programs on the vessel, as well as research training courses, high school teacher training courses, on-board lectures, and distance learning programs. The project is supported by the Division of Ocean Sciences at NSF. University of Miami and their non-federal partners will provide cost-share support for more than 30% of total project costs. ***