CRESE Annular Pool Refurbishment
Abstract
Publicly Releasable -This proposal requests funding to restore a large annular pool, a critical piece of infrastructure to support diving and undersea research, and chillers for the pool and hyperbaric chamber. The Center for Research and Education in Special Environments (CRESE) had a fifty-year history of environmental physiology research, education, and service largely focused on improvingsafety and performance of military personnel. CRESE closed for two years in 2012 when the medical school moved to a new downtown campus and the decision was made to not replace the retiring director or rebuild the infrastructure in a new location. CRESE was reopened by the PI of this application and a portion of the old infrastructure was refurbished or rebuilt. However, the annular pool wasnot returned at that time and was used for anatomic preservation. An agreement was reached between the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health and Health Professions to allow CRESE to reopen the 58.6m annular pool. This is a critical resource for diving research and, to our knowledge, the only one of its kind in the world. The requested equipment for the refurbishment will support critical diving research. The chiller units control water temperature for the annular pool, smaller immersion pools, and the hyperbaric chamber making them critical to sustain future operations. These acquisitions will support a current NAVSEA award and NAVSEA and ONR awards to Creare, LLC that are being tested at CRESE. It also positions CRESE for future DoD work, in addition to supporting the efforts of NEDU. In addition to research, the lab continues the CRESE tradition of training undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral fellows, military personnel, and visiting scientists. This infrastructure is a major part of the ONR Undersea Medicine National Naval Responsibility Charter. Awarding this proposal will allow the PI to revitalize the capability of a world-leading center of undersea medicine and environmental physiology. This infrastructure is important to ONR, NAVSEA and DoD as similar laboratories are disappearing around the world and could reduce the U.S. military capability.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jan 12, 2023
- Source ID
- N000142312212
Entities
People
- David Hostler
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- Research Foundation for the State University of New York
- United States Navy