EAGER - Great Lakes Research for Early Career Scientists

University Of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth MN

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Abstract

This award is a request to fund a set of research training cruises on the University of Minnesota?s R/V Blue Heron for early career scientists. The work will have two goals: 1) teach early career lacustrine scientists how to acquire, plan for, and manage cruises aboard UNOLS ships, introducing a new generation of scientists to UNOLS and the academic fleet; and 2) expose members of the Great Lakes scientific community, which has an abysmally low submittal rate of proposals to NSF requesting UNOLS ships, to UNOLS and the academic fleet. The awardee undertaken two successful Chief Scientist Training Cruises (in 2014 and 2015) and with this will expand the number of participants and our area of operations from solely Lake Superior to both Lakes Superior and Michigan. Intellectual Merit : The training cruise envisioned herein will allow early career scientists to collect seed data and test hypotheses for future proposals to NSF. Broader Impacts : This proposal intends to educate the next generation of researchers about the capabilities of UNOLS. This type of outreach between UNOLS and potential users is not only important for the broader scientific community, but doubly important for the Great Lakes community which underutilizes UNOLS assets.