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SME No. 145
PS Lucy Carpenter
Natural Environment Research Council
Ship-time & Marine Equipment Application form (SME)
NOTES:
1. NERC’s marine facilities programme is planned on the basis of the calendar year. This form
MUST be submitted by 1st April of the preceding year to be considered for inclusion in this
programme. Submissions after this date will be carried forward to the subsequent year, unless
they can be satisfied on an opportunistic basis.
2. This form should be submitted electronically to Dr Helen Beadman ([email protected]),
NERC, Polaris House, Swindon SN2 1EU. [NB. Core-strategic applications should be
backed up by a hard copy (with the necessary approval signed at Part 3)]
3. This form is NOT an application for research and ‘superstructure’ funding, which must be
applied for separately. Unless this is being provided from an external source, such as a
commissioned research customer or the EU, an application for NERC funding should be
submitted to the relevant Peer Review Committee. The NERC policy on the allocation of
‘superstructure’ costs to grant proposals in the non-thematic and thematic modes can be
found at: http://www.nerc.ac.uk/funding/marineplan/.
4. All SME applications will be acknowledged by email on receipt by NERC.
Contacts:
Dr Mike Webb,
NERC, Swindon Head Office
Tel
: 01793 411520
Fax
: 01793 411545
E-mail : [email protected]
Chris Hindley, Ops Manager,
British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
Tel
: 01223 221497
Fax
: 01223 362616
E-mail : [email protected]
Dr Helen Beadman,
NERC, Swindon Head Office
Tel
: 01793 411513
Fax
: 01793 411545
E-mail : [email protected]
Geraint West,
Hd UK Ocean Research Services (UKORS)
Tel
:023 80596147
Fax
:023 80596267
E-mail : [email protected]
Colin Day, Ops Manager,
UK Ocean Research Services (UKORS)
Tel
: 023 80596109
Fax
: 023 80596267
E-mail : [email protected]
Andrew Louch, Ops Manager,
Research Ship Unit (RSU)
Tel
: 023 80596472
Fax
: 023 8059 8063/5130
E-mail : [email protected]
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PART 1 General Particulars
SECTION A Applicants Details
A.1
Principal Scientist’s Details
[ONE ONLY PER CRUISE]
Name
Dr Lucy Carpenter (on behalf of PI of RHaMBLe, Dr Gordon McFiggans)
Address
Dept of Chemistry, University of York
Telephone No
01904 434588
Fax No
01904 432516
E-mail
[email protected]
A.2
Title of Project
Reactive Halogens in the Marine Boundary Layer – (RHaMBLe)
A.3
Duration
Is this application for a cruise or cruises in 2007 only or for cruises spanning more than one year (2007
onwards)?
2007 only
A.4
Description of research project
Please paste below a detailed two-page description of the research project to be carried out during the
cruise, including a programme of activities and a cruise track within the science area. This description
will be used for programming purposes and, for programmed cruises; the description will be displayed on
the NERC marine planning web site. Where a research grant is also being applied for, the supporting
science case for the research grant application is acceptable and should be pasted below.
Programme description:
Introduction:
RHaMBLe is an integrated programme aiming to quantify impacts of marine halogen emissions on
atmospheric composition by the direct observation of a range of reactive halogen species (RHS) in the
marine atmosphere. Emphasis is placed on the roles of halogens in oxidative processes and on secondary
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aerosol formation and transformations resulting from the cycling of RHS. RHaMBLe will extensively
link to UK and Internationally funded programmes to provide a package within UK SOLAS to link
oceanic fluxes to atmospheric impacts.
The recent focus of marine boundary layer halogen research has been on two atmospheric implications: i)
participation of reactive halogen species in catalytic ozone destruction cycles including heterogeneous
reaction in or on seasalt aerosol and ii) the formation of new aerosol particles in the coastal boundary
layer and their potential to act as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN). RHaMBLe will develop both closely
related areas of SOLAS science.
RHaMBLe will use a targeted combination of open ocean and coastal field deployments. Two open ocean
deployments will link with long-term studies in the tropical Atlantic Ocean on Sao Vicente in the Cape
Verde Islands: i) an intensive campaign and supplementation of the continuous measurements already
funded at Cape Verde and ii) a simultaneous ship transect through the biologically-active upwelling
region west of Mauritania. These will provide possibly the most comprehensive characterisation of
halogen compounds in the marine atmosphere to date, including both organic and inorganic reactive
species and providing substantial spatial and temporal coverage. A coastal field project is planned to
provide direct observational linkage between new particle formation and RHS, to enable development of
a usable parameterisation for use in large-scale models. This investigation will use largely the same
observational techniques and personnel as the open ocean deployments.
RHaMBLe will interact bi-directionally with a range of funded activities to contribute to both integrated
biological production and atmospheric chemical process understanding (as explained in the Project
Management section). The interactions within this cluster of activities will ensure that measurements
made within RHaMBLe are used optimally to contribute to the quantification of the effects of marine
halogens.
Specific Objectives:
i) to quantify the spatial and temporal variability of RHS in the tropical and sub-tropical Atlantic, to
assess the cycling mechanisms of reactive halogens in the marine atmosphere and hence quantify the
regional and global effect on oxidative chemistry through perturbation of the HOx and NOx cycles,
coupling to the sulphur cycle and the effect on ozone and on aqueous oxidation.
ii) to describe the formation and growth mechanisms and assess the regional importance of iodinecontaining particles recently formed in the coastal and remote marine boundary layers and compare this
with predicted contributions due to DMS oxidation.
Detailed description of research cruise:
Aims: The cruise will address a number of key scientific questions required to determine the global
importance of iodine chemistry and to further our understanding of the controls of halogen chemistry in
the remote ocean. It will quantify marine halocarbon emission variability and latitudinal variation,
characterise in situ open ocean atmospheric reactive iodine latitudinal variability and characterise
oxidative chemistry perturbation due to oceanic emission of halogens from the Mauritanian upwelling
region. Specifically, the following science questions will be addressed:
i) How heterogeneous are the direct halogen sources and on what scale is the heterogeneity – does the
upwelling region produce more or less halogens than the “background” region?
ii) What are the relative contributions of I atoms to the remote MBL from I2 and organic iodine?
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iii) Is sufficient iodine released to the remote MBL to sustain aerosol nucleation or to significantly affect
the ozone budget and free radical populations?
Study Area: The target area for survey is the NW African upwelling off Cap Blanc in Mauritania,
between approximately 16-22oN and 16-21oW, NNE of Cape Verde. We will take advice from the
SOLAS project of Robinson (PML) as to the peak position and structure of the upwelling, which they will
map out in May-June 2006. The upwelling maxima in this region occur between April and June and
minima between July and September. We also require broad surface flow connection between Cape
Verde and the peak upwelling region (21-22oN), and air trajectories that are not contaminated by the NW
African coast. Such trajectories also occur from April to June, thus we request shiptime ideally in May
2007, embarking from Mindelo, Sao Vicente, Cape Verde (with a 3 day mobilization period) .
Instrumentation to be deployed: This will be largely an atmospheric chemistry cruise. Measured
species include a variety of halocarbons in both surface seawater and atmosphere by GC-MS, and
tropospheric measurements of I2, OIO and IO by Broadband Cavity Enhanced Absorption Spectroscopy
(BBCEAS). A compact version of the FAGE system, developed for the FAAM BAe-146, will be
deployed to provide measurements of IO or OH / HO2, permitting direct assessment of RHS-induced
changes in the oxidising environment through the upwelling region. A range of trace gas monitors will be
simultaneously deployed on the ship to measure O3, NOx and CO. Aerosol number and size distribution
measurements from 3 nm to 20 µm will be made by a range of mobility (SMPS) and optical
instrumentation, (OPC and FSSP).
Cruise track: After a transect to the upwelling region from Cape Verde, the first goal of the cruise will
be to survey the broad area of the upwelling region. Daily processed MODIS ocean colour and sea
surface temperature imagery (it is envisaged that this analysis will be carried out daily by RSDAS/PML
and forwarded to the ship) will provide a guide to the upwelled (cold) water, informing the identification
of major upwelling regions. We request a 10-day period to survey the broad area of the upwelling region
(envisaged to be between approximately 18-22oN and 16-21oW – but to be informed by the SOLAS
upwelling cruise of Robinson). The survey could either be in uniformly-spaced diagonal transects, or
could concentrate on sampling in and out of the upwelling regions. We again will be informed by
previous studies and will discuss these issues in detail during a cruise planning workshop in late 2006.
Ideally, we would then transect back to the UK via the Bay of Biscay (in ~ 6-8 days), providing
information on the variability of source regions.
(a)
(b)
Fig 1. (a) Air-mass back trajectory foot-print analyses produced for the Cape Verde region.
Proposed survey area (red outlined square) and transects (red line).
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(b)
SECTION B Logistics
B.1
Cruise working area
Lat(s)
16-22oN
Long(s)
16-24oW
Please paste below a map/chart showing scientific area and proposed cruise track.
See section above
B.2
Cruise timing
Month(s) of the year preferred:
May
Month(s) of the year acceptable:
April-June
Please state exactly what your time
constraints are:
B.3
•
Upwelling
•
Trajectories/connected flow/avoidance of dust
events
•
Link up with
measurements
Cape
Verde
intensive
Cruise period
Preferred number of science days (excluding passage to and from the working area)
11
Minimum number of science days acceptable (excluding passage)
8
Please indicate how many of these science days are for contingencies:
1
N.B. We require a 3 day mobilization period at the embarkation point (Mindelo) for set-up of
instrumentation and we will continue to make underway measurements on the passage leg to the
UK.
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B.4
Number of berths required
See section PART 2 SECTION D below regarding UKORS manning and training berths
See guidance notes for additional information on UKORS support personnel
Preferred number of berths (exclusive of UKORS technical support)
9
(excl.
international
collaboration
)
Minimum number of berths acceptable (exclusive of UKORS technical support)
8
(excl.
international
collaboration
)
B.5
Request for specific research ship
See guidance notes (and the NERC marine planning web site) for details of barter arrangements on
IFREMER (France), BMBF (Germany) or NSF (USA) research ships
RRS Discovery
acceptable
RRS Charles Darwin
RRS James Clark Ross
first preference
RV Prince Madog
Charter ship
Barter ship
RV Poseidon also acceptable
Please state exactly what your JCR appears to fit in very well with planned schedule
reasons are for specifying the
ship(s):
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Technical Requirements
SECTION C Equipment
Please indicate ‘Y’ in the relevant boxes below for equipment required for your cruise.
Please contact the UKORS Operations Manager for further details if required.
C.1
Yes
UKORS National Marine Equipment Pool
Main categories of equipment within the UKORS National Marine Equipment Pool available for
cruise operations.
1.1Radionuclide laboratory container
1.1 Clean chemistry laboratory container
1.1 General purpose chemistry laboratory container
1.2 Bolt 1500LL seismic airguns
1.2 Multi-channel seismic systems
1.2 Seismic air compressor systems (containerised)
1.3 Sub-bottom profiler (3.5 kHz echo sounder) [see ship fitted section below]
1.4 Towed Ocean Bottom Instrument (TOBI)
1.5 CTD / rosette sampler systems
1.6 Moorings & mooring instrumentation
[complete section D2]
1.7 Seasoar system
1.8 Mini box corer (200mm square box)
1.8 Standard piston core system
1.8 Long piston core system
1.8 NIOZ box corer (500mm square box)
1.8 SMBA box corer: stainless steel (500mm square box)
1.8 SMBA box corer: mild steel (500mm square box)
1.8 Kasten corer
1.8 Day grab
1.8 Shipek grab
1.9 XBT operations
1.10 Agassiz trawl systems
1.10 OTSB trawl systems
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C.1
Yes
UKORS National Marine Equipment Pool
Main categories of equipment within the UKORS National Marine Equipment Pool available for
cruise operations.
1.11 Seabed dredging
1.12 Stand Alone Pumps (SAP)
1.13 Laboratory fume hood
1.13 Laboratory laminar flow hoods
1.14 Laboratory hydrogen gas generators
1.14 Laboratory pure air gas generators
1.14 Laboratory nitrogen gas generators
1.15 Laboratory liquid nitrogen generator
Y
1.16 Laboratory pure water system (Millipore)
Y
1.17 -70 degree centigrade freezer
Y
1.17 -20 degree centigrade freezer
Y
1.17 Refrigerators
Y
1.17 Ice making machine
Y
1.18 Gas bottle storage racks
Y
1.19 Echo sounder 10kHz (10/12 kHz fish and hull mounted system)
1.20 ‘Waterfall’ monitoring equipment
1.6 McLane moored profiling CTD systems
Moving Vessel Profiler (MVP300)
SC ADCP RDI WH long ranger (75kHz)
SC ADCP RDI WH sentinel 6000m (300/600kHz)
SC ADCP RDI WH monitor 500m (1200kHz)
L ADCP RDI WH monitor 6000m (300kHz)
L ADCP RDI narrow band (150kHz)
CI FASTRACKA FRRF
Long Base Line navigation system (LBL)
DARTCOM satellite imaging system
Salinometer
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C.2
Electronic Communications
RRS Discovery and RRS Charles Darwin operate a communications schedule for electronic transfer
capable of supporting a high-speed (64 kbaud) link to the Internet. The links are available to the scientific
party via subscription to cover costs external to RSU for the use of INMARSAT.
Applicants should budget for a supplementary charge of £25 per cruise day for the Principal Scientist’s
Scientific Main Account, to be billed prior to commencement of the cruise.
Scientific/Business Accounts each, at a supplementary charge of £4 per cruise day is available to
individuals of the scientific party to conduct business not associated with the research cruise. This
supplementary charge will be billed and collected on board the ship.
Regarding the transfer of data and satellite images, should your project require significant connection
time or additional connections to the standard schedule, it will be necessary for you to allocate specific
funds to this aspect of the project. The additional charges will be accounted and settled on board.
For further advice please contact UKORS.
Do you intend transferring data, satellite images or software?
C.3
Yes
Additional supplied equipment (Non-UKORS Pool Equipment)
Please itemise below the main items of equipment outside the UKORS equipment pool to be used during
the cruise (i.e. over-side equipment, laboratory equipment, specialist containers etc). Please state the
source of the equipment. Please include owner-supplied equipment.
(If possible, please comment on size, weight, power requirements, installed location on the ship and brief
deployment details)
Equipment details
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C.4
Ship-fitted Scientific Equipment
Item availability on ship
Equipment
RRS Discovery
RV Prince
Madog
RRS Charles
Darwin
RRS James
Clark Ross
Available
Available
Is this item
requested?
Seismic air compressor / delivery systems
Available
Computing systems [scientific data acquisition]
Available
Available
Available
Available
Y
Pumped sea water sampling system [from 6m depth]
Available
Available
Available
Available
Y
Sea surface monitoring system [sal., temp., fluor., trans.]
Available
Available
Available
Available
Y
Meteorology monitoring package
Available
Available
Available
Available
Y
150 kHz hull mounted ADCP system
Available
Available
Available
75 kHz hull mounted ADCP system
Available
300 kHz hull mounted ADCP system
Available
Ultra Short Base Line acoustic navigation
Available
Hull mounted wave height recorders
Available
Available
Available
Y?
SIMRAD EM12 Swath Bathymetry system
Available
SIMRAD EM120 Swath Bathymetry system
Available
SIMRAD EK500 Echo sounder
Available
SIMRAD EK60 Echo sounder
Available
DPS
Available
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C.5
Mooring and drifting buoys: design and deployment details.
In order to establish an outline mooring design for the planning and costing exercises please provide the
following information. Please give as much detail as is available at the time.
Scientific objective;
description of mooring
measuring criteria.
Sensors proposed + sensor
ranges / resolutions.
Sensor depths (depths
from surface or heights off
bottom).
Duration of mooring
deployment.
Geographical location of
mooring deployment.
Details of topography at
mooring site.
Details of current profile
extremes.
Is Argos mooring
monitoring required?
Budgetary constraints to
be applied to mooring
design.
Please state proposed
recovery ship.
Please paste below a sketch layout with bathymetry.
Please add any further comments as required:
No moorings required
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C.6
Additional Facilities
In addition to research ships, UKORS technicians and NMEP equipment, NERC provides a range of
facilities to support environmental research (see ‘NERC Services & Facilities’ website for further
information) and NERC has access to a number of marine facilities via the barter arrangements with
IFREMER (France), BMBF (Germany) & NSF (USA) (see the NERC marine planning website for more
information). Please indicate below which, if any, of the additional facilities you may require to support
the research, should the cruise be programmed.
Comments:
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SECTION D Technical Support Staff
D.1
UK Ocean Research Services (UKORS)
Responsibilities
Mobilisation – Preparation of the ship for a science cruise - this involves locating, installing,
setting up and testing the equipment for a forthcoming cruise, and may take 2-7 days, depending
on the equipment required.
Operation - Operation and supervision of deployment of all scientific equipment detailed in C.1
(NMEP Equipment) and also responsible (including calibration) for all item listed as ship-fitted
equipment available onboard RRS Discovery and RRS Charles Darwin in table C.4. In addition
UKORS are also currently responsible for the following fitted items of handling equipment
onboard these ships:
Deck hydraulics / powerpacks
Gantry systems
Scientific cranes
Ship fitted winch systems
Responsibility for operation of these items is currently being handed over to the Research Ship
Unit, and you should consult with the UKORS Operations Manager for the current status of this.
Repair and Maintenance - General fault finding, repair of defective equipment and on-going
daily maintenance of equipment as defined in the paragraph above: again RSU are in the process
of assuming responsibility for fitted handling equipment.
Allocation of Engineering Staff
During the cruise planning process, the number and skills balance of UKORS staff allocated to cruise
support from the three engineering disciplines, together with the level of RSU Marine support staff will
be determined by assessing the cruise activities and workload. Because of this it is critical that applicants
discuss manning requirements with UKORS when completing this form. In particular, certain operations
may require significantly increased manning levels:
Multi-channel seismics
Giant (Long) Piston Corer
EM12 Swath Bathymetry
Training
Where possible, NERC’s Research Vessels Advisory Panel would like to develop the principal of
providing training berths on board NERC ships for UKORS technicians.
If there are spare berths available during your cruise please give serious consideration to this request.
There will be no additional charges for this extra technical support. If the offer can be taken up by
UKORS, the training berth may be to your advantage as you could gain an extra pair of technical hands.
However the technician may be a novice, and should therefore not be regarded as capable of working
without supervision. If a trainee is catered for during your cruise, the work activities and hours of
UKORS technical staff must be assessed disregarding any additional trainee berths.
Are berths available during your cruise for use by a UKORS trainee technician?
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D.2
British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
This guidance only applies to NERC-funded sea days and not BAS core science or AFI, which are
addressed separately.
Unless otherwise agreed, BAS technicians must be employed if BAS equipment is to be used.
A maximum of 2 x BAS technicians (ITS/ETS) are included in the daily rate for the RRS James Clark
Ross. Additional staff can be provided at agreed rates, subject to availability.
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PART 3 Funding and Approval
SECTION E Funding
Only complete questions in this section as appropriate to your project.
E.1
Existing Research Grant
Is this application directly related to an existing thematic/non-thematic research grant?
If ‘yes’, please indicate grant number and the approximate level of funding that you have to cover
‘superstructure’ costs (if known):
If ‘no’, is a new research grant covering the full funding of research and ship ‘superstructure’ costs being
applied for together with this application?
E.2
Core Funding
Is NERC core funding providing all of the funds to cover the science and the ‘superstructure’ support
costs associated with this application form?
If ‘yes’, please state programme title and the approximate level of funding that you have to cover
‘superstructure’ costs:
YES – SOLAS (RHaMBLe). But no superstructure costs expected.
If ‘no’, please state the way in which the costs are to be attributed. Please also confirm that agreement for
this joint arrangement has been obtained from all sources:
E.3
Commissioned Research
Please state the name of the commissioned research customer(s)?
If you are bidding for ‘free at the point of use’ access to NERC’s marine facilities, please confirm that all
data collected using these facilities can be freely used for scientific research:
Please state the level of funding that you have to cover ‘superstructure’ costs:
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E.4
Funding from a non-NERC Peer Reviewed Source
Is this application directly related to an existing award from a non-NERC peer reviewed source (e.g., EU,
NSF)?
If ‘yes’, please state the grant number and the level of funding that you have to cover ‘superstructure’
costs:
If ‘no’, please indicate if the grant proposal that’s being applied for together with this application covers
the full funding of research and ship ‘superstructure’ costs, and the date when you expect to know if
funding has been secured:
E.5
Additional funding sources
If none of the above (sections E1 - E4) applies, please indicate the source of the full funding for research
and ship ‘superstructure’ costs:
SECTION F
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Approval
F.1
Approval for a NERC core-strategic science cruise
Director’s name:
I confirm that this SME application form is for scientific research that is part of a NERC core-strategic
programme
Date:
Signature:
Additional comments (if any):
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