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OCE Division Of Ocean Sciences |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | March 26, 2008 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | March 26, 2008 |
| Award Number: | 0820928 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Kandace Binkley
kbinkley@nsf.gov (703)292-7577 OCE Division Of Ocean Sciences GEO Directorate for Geosciences |
| Start Date: | April 1, 2008 |
| End Date: | March 31, 2009 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $54,998.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $54,998.00 |
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266 WOODS HOLE RD WOODS HOLE MA US 02543-1535 (508)289-3542 |
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266 WOODS HOLE RD WOODS HOLE MA US 02543-1535 |
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| NSF Program(s): | OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.050 |
ABSTRACT
The PIs have requested a Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER) to mount a recovery cruise for the mooring and sensor systems of the Real Time Offshore Seismic Station (RTOSS) that was deployed on the Kick?em Jenny volcano just north of Grenada in May of 2007. This system suspiciously ceased operation 8 days after a successful deployment, and subsequently was parted from its surface buoy. The RTOSS system ceased operation as a result of an apparent coincident failure of the radio modem, the control link and ARGOS telemetry. Among the possible causes of this failure are flooding of the buoy well and collision with a vessel causing damage to antennas that were attached to the centrally located mast. Without recovering the subsurface portion the PI?s can only speculate about what may have happened
Broader Impacts
The mooring design seeks to address a difficult problem with moorings requiring real time telemetry from bottom founded equipment and had undergone a successful preparatory test deployment
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