| NSF Org: |
OCE Division Of Ocean Sciences |
| Recipient: |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | March 29, 2018 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | January 6, 2025 |
| Award Number: | 1822624 |
| Award Instrument: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Program Manager: |
Rose Dufour
rdufour@nsf.gov (703)292-8811 OCE Division Of Ocean Sciences GEO Directorate for Geosciences |
| Start Date: | April 1, 2018 |
| End Date: | December 31, 2025 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $2,044,863.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $7,482,090.00 |
| Funds Obligated to Date: |
FY 2019 = $167,947.00 FY 2020 = $1,222,550.00 FY 2021 = $985,053.00 FY 2022 = $1,926,292.00 FY 2023 = $1,566,719.00 FY 2024 = $1,048,050.00 |
| History of Investigator: |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
310 E CAMPUS RD RM 409 ATHENS GA US 30602-1589 (706)542-5939 |
| Sponsor Congressional District: |
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| Primary Place of Performance: |
10 Ocean Science Circle Savannah GA US 31411-1011 |
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Performance Congressional District: |
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| NSF Program(s): |
SHIP OPERATIONS, OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE |
| Primary Program Source: |
01002324DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01002425DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 010V2122DB R&RA ARP Act DEFC V 01AB2324DB R&RA DRSA DEFC AAB 01001819DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01001920DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01002021DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01002122DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01002223DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.050 |
ABSTRACT
Overview:
This request is to fund the first year, 2018, of a five-year cooperative agreement for Ship Operations of
the Research Vessel Savannah. Built at the Maine shipyard of Washburn and Doughty and delivered to
the UGA/Skidaway Institute of Oceanography in 2001, the 92-foot coastal research vessel was designed
to provide researchers with a versatile platform to conduct primarily federally-funded oceanographic
research and educational activities in the southeastern U.S. With its moderate draft, the R/V Savannah is
capable of working in a variety of environments, from coastal rivers and estuaries to the outer continental
shelf and beyond. The ship funds will support a variety peer-reviewed NSF funded projects.
A technical Description:
Over the past 17 years, and in the next five, the R/V Savannah has continued and will continue to
demonstrate its ability to host a large number of scientific cruises with a broad spectrum of mission
requirements by providing a vessel with excellent range and endurance for its class, robust overboard
handling systems and the capacity to berth 16 scientists plus 6 crew. For example, federally-funded
projects over the past two years used the R/V Savannah to assess the role of vitamin B-12 and nitrogen
availability on the regulation of oceanic dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) and dimethylsulfide (DMS)
across a 250 nautical mile transect from the inner continental shelf to the Sargasso Sea; to study soluble
iron fluxing in continental shelf margins using benthic lander deployments to 2500 meters and sediment
collections to 1000 meters off the North Carolina capes; to quantify the cryptic diet of the globally
significant pelagic tunicate Dolioletta gegenbauri on the mid-shelf of the South Atlantic Bight, and to
measure the health of fish stocks from northern Georgia waters to south Florida. The R/V Savannah has
also supported Navy ship trials and shock tests, ONR glider operations and the maintenance of
meteorological data buoys as well as a variety of educational programs. All of the aforementioned
projects were federally funded by NSF, ONR or NOAA. 2018 and years following will have some
continuing projects and new research activities, mostly supported with federal funds.
Purposefully designed with a large science berthing capacity, the R/V Savannah is well suited to provide
learning opportunities in ocean and estuarine environments and to demonstrate oceanographic research
methodologies to diverse student populations. In 2017, the R/V Savannah hosted 30 undergraduate, 40
graduate students, 23 high school science teachers and students, and 19 observers across 25 cruises. In
collaboration with Savannah State University, the R/V Savannah continued to host the two-day Research
Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) cruise (OCE-1460457) in 2017, giving students from all over the
U.S. the opportunity to experience life at sea aboard a working research vessel by conducting standard
sampling regimes across the continental shelf to be used in student research papers. The state of Georgia
and Skidaway Institute of Oceanography regularly provide 5+ days per year, to support beginning
investigator and graduate student research. To better inform and educate the public about advances in
ocean sciences, the R/V Savannah is open to the public for guided tours each year, including the annual
UGA/Skidaway Institute of Oceanography Marine Science Day which draws 1800-2500 participants
annually.
The Statement of Merit Review:
This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.
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