Ship Time for Navy Projects - R/V Pelican 2016
Abstract
Funds are provided to the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium for ship time support of Navy oceanographic research projects in 2016. This proposal requests ship operation funds for 40 Navy funded research days aboard the R/V Pelican for calendar year 2016. There are currently 190 total days scheduled for 2016. The vessel was at sea for 193 days in 2015, 25 of which were for Navy projects. The R/V Pelican has averaged 193 days at sea over the last 5 years. The R/V Pelican was designed and outfitted to conduct a variety of oceanographic research missions. The reliability, utility and seaworthiness of this vessel have been well demonstrated. The R/V Pelican successfully conducts scientific trawling, large box core sampling, thirty-foot piston cores, shallow seismic surveys, current meter array and benthic boundary array deployment and recovery. The R/V Pelican has also successfully conducted plankton sampling, hydrographic casts with CTD-rosette system and underway sampling with towed water sampling systems. The R/V Pelican is operated by Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) as an Oceanographic Research Vessel as designated by the United States Coast Guard and is maintained as an American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) load line classed vessel. The Consortium is a member UNOLS and the R/V Pelican is a designated UNOLS vessel. The vessel is available for legitimate research and education programs of Consortium members, state and federal agencies, other nonprofit groups, and oceanographic industries.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Nov 23, 2016
- Source ID
- N000141612568
Entities
People
- Joseph Malbrough
Organizations
- Louisiana State University System
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy