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  ASGARD  -  2017  -  Sikuliaq  
  Project Information  
Project Title: ASGARD: Arctic Shelf Growth, Advection, Respiration and Deposition Rate Experiments Project Status: Submitted
Principal Investigator: Seth Danielson, UAF_CFOS Project Institution: UAF_CFOS
Project ID: 104975 Version #: 2
Date Submitted: 8/7/2015 7:21:00 PM Created By: Seth Danielson
Date Last Modified: 9/8/2017 12:36:00 PM URI Serial #: None
Funding Agencies: OTHER - NONE - Funded
Summary of Field Work: The ASGARD project is a coordinated ensemble of vessel- and mooring-based process studies consisting of physical, chemical, biological and biogeochemical rate measurements that are designed to better constrain carbon and nutrient dynamics of the northern Bering and Chukchi sea continental shelves. Our fundamental science question is: What regulates variations in carbon transfer pathways and how will the changing ice environment alter these pathways and ecosystem structure in the Pacific Arctic and beyond? Our approach is to measure a broad suite of environmental parameters, with emphasis on biotic and abiotic rates, during the annual shelf transition from ice-covered to ice-free conditions. In particular, we will quantify the physical and chemical environments: the planktonic and benthic microbial and infaunal communities (composition, abundance and biomass); water mass, heat, salt, fresh water, nutrient, and particulate advection rates; phytoplankton growth rates; zooplankton growth, reproduction, feeding and respiration rates; quantity, quality, and degradation rates of sediment organic material; benthic respiration rates; and particle sinking and deposition rates. These analyses will be carried out at poorly-sampled locations and times of year. Year-round biophysical and biogeochemical moored instruments will provide time series context of select parameters at sites located along the primary advective pathways and within multiple water masses and biogeographical regimes.
Summary of Facility Requirements: The R/V Sikuliaq is the required platform for the proposed experiments because it:
• is capable of working in and near the ice edge
• is less expensive to operate than the USCGC Healy and can operate in shallower water depths
• can accommodate a science party of 26-30 berths (including marine technicians)
• has a weather window of operations that is broader than most other vessels, resulting in less science time lost to poor weather (can handle icing conditions; has hands-off over-the-side gear handling systems) , especially when working in and near the ice edge
• has sufficient dry lab, wet lab, cold room, and analytical lab space for all proposed activities
• can accommodate all of Hopcroft’s large deck and lab incubation chambers
• can do coring, bottom grabs, midwater trawls and plumb-staff beam trawls
• has a fully equipped Seabird 9-11 CTD and 24-place rosette with 10-l bottles.
• provides flow-through seawater system with access ports
• provides on-deck running seawater for incubators
• is outfitted with a mast-mounted PAR sensor and associated meteorological instruments
• has a -80 °C freezer
• has a 150 KHz Teledyne RDI Ocean Surveyor ADCP
• can fish mid-water and bottom trawls
• comes with leveraged ship days contributed by UAF.

In addition to the standard ship’s equipment and facilities on board the R/V Sikuliaq, we would request the following special UNOLS equipment:
• A Rad Van for stable isotope productivity experiments.
• A multi-corer for bottom sampling
Summary of other requirements and comments: We propose one 20-day cruise in late May/early June in each of 2017 and 2018 on board the R/V Sikuliaq, NSF’s new polar-class research vessel. An ideal timing would be to leave Nome on May 25 and return to Nome on June 14.

Leveraged Support for Logistics

SFOS will be leveraging state-funded ship days on the R/V Sikuliaq as a resource to support this project. Funds available total $1,200,000 of which $750,000 would be available for the 2017 cruise. Given the current day rate ($43,616, which covers the vessel and technical services, including two marine technicians on board the cruise) and assuming a 5% cost of inflation, $1.2M would cover 25 of the 40 science days needed for the two LTL cruises proposed here. We request that NPRB fund the remaining 15 science days and work with the NSF to ensure the vessel will begin operations in Nome. As the Sikuliaq could be working anywhere in the North Pacific, this could require an extended transit. We will need to schedule this ship time through the NSF-UNOLS ship scheduling system. We are unable to apply these funds to any other vessel.
Ship Request Identification
Type of Request: Primary Ship Use Request Status: Submitted
Request ID: 1007985 Created By: Seth Danielson
Date Last Modified: 9/8/2017 12:36:00 PM Date Submitted: 8/7/2015 7:21:00 PM
Requested Ship, Operating Days and Dates
Year: 2017 Ship/Facility: Sikuliaq
Optimum Start Date: 5/25/2017 Dates to Avoid:  
 
 
Earliest Start Date: 5/22/2017 Multi-Ship Op: No
Latest Start Date: 6/7/2017 Other Ship(s):

Operating Days Needed: Science Days Mob Days De-Mob Days Estimated Transit Days Total Days
20 1 1 0 22
Repeating Cruise?
(within same year)
No Interval:   # of Cruises:  

Description of Repeating cruise requirements:
Justification/Explanation for ship choice, dates,
conflicts, number of days & multi-ship operations:
We request the Sikuliaq because we can bring UAF state-funded ship days to this effort totalling $1.2M. Also, we anticipate working near and in the ice edge so an ice-strengthened vessel is required.
Work Area for Cruise
Short Description of Op Area
for use in schedules:
Chukchi Sea
Description of Op Area: Northern Bering and southern Chukchi Seas from St Lawrence Island to Cape Lisburne
Op Area Size/Dia.: 300
 
  Lat/Long Marsden Grid Navy Op Area
Beginning
64° N / 165° W map
233 map
NP02 map
Ending
64° N / 165° W map
233 map
NP02 map
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Foreign Clearance and Permitting Requirements
Foreign Clearance Required? No Coastal States:
 Important Info on Foreign Research Clearances  

Are you or any member in your science party bringing in any science equipment items which are regulated for export by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR)?
No If yes, have you applied for the necessary permits through your export control office? No
 Questions about ITAR/EAR regulations?

Comments about foreign clearance requirements or
description of any other special permitting requirements
(e.g., MMPA, ESA, IHA, Marine Sanctuaries, etc.)
Port Calls
Requested Start Port Intermediate Port(s) Requested End Port
Nome, AK, USA None Nome, AK, USA
Explanation/justification for requested
ports and dates of intermediate stops
or to list additional port stops
 

 Important Info on Working in Foreign Ports

 
Science Party
Chief Scientist: Seth Danielson, UAF_CFOS
# in Science Party 26 # of different science teams 7 # Marine Technicians to be
provided by ship operator:
(include in science party total)
2
Explanation of Science Party Requirements and Technician Requirements Request two ship technicians to assist with the science, including over-the-side net and coring operations.
Instrumentation Requirements That Impact Scheduling Decisions
Unselected Dynamic PositioningSelected ADCPUnselected MultibeamUnselected Seismic
Selected Dredging/Coring/Large Dia. Trawl WireUnselected Stern A-frameUnselected Fiber Optic (.681)Unselected 0.680 Coax Wire
Unselected SCUBA DivingSelected Radioisotope use - briefly describeUnselected NO Radioisotope use/Natural level workUnselected Other Operator Provided Inst. - Describe
0 PI-Provided Vans - briefly describe Unselected MOCNESS  
Explain Instrumentation or Capability
requirements that could affect choice
of ship in scheduling.

The R/V Sikuliaq is the required platform for the proposed experiments because it:
• is capable of working in and near the ice edge
• has a weather window of operations that is broader than most other vessels, resulting in less science time lost to poor weather (can handle icing conditions; has hands-off over-the-side gear handling systems) , especially when working in and near the ice edge
• has sufficient dry lab, wet lab, cold room, and analytical lab space for all proposed activities
• can accommodate all of Hopcroft’s large deck and lab incubation chambers
• can do coring, bottom grabs, midwater trawls and plumb-staff beam trawls

Most importantly, this request comes with leveraged ship days contributed by UAF that can not be used with any other vessel.

Major Ancillary Facilities (that require coordination of schedules with ship schedule)
Aircraft
Unselected Helicopter Ops (USCG)Unselected Twin OtterUnselected Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) 
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV)
Unselected Other AUVUnselected Sentry  
Coring Facility
Unselected Jumbo Piston CoringUnselected Large Gravity Core Unselected MC800 multicorer w/ MISO camera/telemetryUnselected OSU Coring Facility (MARSSAM)
Unselected Other Large Coring FacilityUnselected WHOI Long Core  
Human Occupied Vehicle (HOV)
Unselected AlvinUnselected Clelia (HBOI)Unselected JSL I & II (HBOI)Unselected Other HOV
Other Facility
Unselected MISO Facility - deep-sea imagingUnselected Other FacilityUnselected Potential Fields Pool Equipment 
Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)
Unselected JasonUnselected Other ROV  
Seismic Facility
Unselected Ocean Bottom Seismograph Instrument Center (OBSIC)Unselected Ocean Bottom Seismograph Instrument Pool (OBSIP)Unselected Ocean-Bottom Seismometer Program (UTIG)Unselected Other Seismic/OBS Facility
Unselected PASSCALUnselected Portable MCS groupUnselected Portable MCS/SCS groupUnselected U.S. Geological Survey Ocean Bottom Seismometer Facility (USGS at WHOI)
Towed Underwater Vehicle
Unselected ARGO IIUnselected Hawaii MR1 (HMRG)Unselected IMI12 (HMRG)Unselected IMI120 (HMRG - formerly DSL 120A)
Unselected IMI30 (HMRG)Unselected Other Towed Underwater VehicleUnselected Towfish 
UNOLS Van Pool
Unselected AUV Lab Van #1Unselected Clean Lab VanUnselected Cold Lab VanUnselected General Purpose Lab Van
Selected Radioisotope Lab VanUnselected Wet Lab Van  
UNOLS Winch Pool
Unselected Mooring SpoolerUnselected Portable WinchUnselected Turn Table 
Explain Major Ancillary Facilities
Requirements and list description
and provider for "other" systems.
Require Rad van for 13C stable isotope productivity experiments.
Seek use of a mulit-core device. Unsure of what coring facility to indicate for this.

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