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or the printable NSF Shiptime Request (STR) form as:
Profiler Sea Trial - SUBMITTED  
UNOLS Project ID: 105925 URI Serial #: None
Date Submitted: 9/9/2017 10:06:00 PM Last Modified: 9/11/2017 10:22:00 AM
Status: Submitted Version #: 1
Principal Investigator (PI) Contact Information
Steven D'Hondt
URI_GSO
(401) 874-6808
dhondt*%*%*gso^%^%^uri^%^%^edu
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) & other collaborators Contact Information
Christopher RomanURI_GSO(401) 874-6115croman2*%*%*uri^%^%^edu
Robert A. PockalnyURI_GSO(401) 874-6926rpockalny*%*%*uri^%^%^edu
Project Information (Proposal, Grant, Project, Contract, Program)
Project Title: First Sea Trial of Autonomous Ocean Profiling & Water Sampling System for 0 to 11 km of Water Depth
Program Name:  
Scientific Discipline: Instrumentation  

Project Status: Funded Grant/Proposal
Project Funding Agencies:
Agency/Division/Program Grant or Project Number Funding Status
INST Not Specified Funded

Other Agency or Program Description: Rhode Island Endeavor Program

Project Institution: University of Rhode Island
Institution Project #:

Project Start Date: 2/15/2018
End Date: 5/1/2018
Proposal Deadline
(proposal date):
5/12/2017

Total Project Budget:  
Project Description and Facility Requirements
Project Web Page:
Summary of Field Work: The PIs have been funded by NSF to design, build and test the deep water autonomous lander system described in the attached page. The NSF-funded test of the system is scheduled to take place using RV Endeavor in the Puerto Rico Trench in 2018. The modest amount of ship-time that we request through the RIEP will allow us to test the system at shallower water depths relatively close to RI. The RIEP test will significantly increase the probability of success of our final test in the PR Trench and help us develop the system to a more mature state.
Summary of Facility Requirements: The main instrument will be the deep-water lander. We anticipate it being 15 feet tall, 5x5 feet at the base and weighing up to ~2900 lbs. It would be deployed and recovered using the knuckle crane off the starboard side of the ship. The lander will be free floating during recovered and hooked with a pole and line prior to being lifted out of the water.

We may consider lowering the lander on a wire, like a conventional CTD, to do some testing. This could be done with the trawl wire and A-Frame. We do not need an electrical connection to the lander through the wire.

During the cruise, we would also like to make some regular CTD casts using the shipboard system. This would not require any special equipment, the standard sensor suite would suffice.
Summary of other requirements or comments:
List of Ship, Aircraft and Facility Requests
 YearShipTotal DaysCost EstimateStart Date (optimum)RepeatMulti-shipAreaClearanceStatus
View 2018 Endeavor 7 $127,160 Mar 15, 2018 No No RI Shelf/Margin No Submitted

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