2024-2025 Science Planning Summary
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2024-2025 USAP Field Season
Project Detail

Project Title

University of Hawaii Data Acquisition System (UHDAS) support


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T-933-N Research Location(s): Southern Ocean

Summary

Event Number:
T-933-N
NSF / UH Agreement

Program Director:
Dr. David Porter

ASC POC/Implementer:
Kenneth Vicknair / Bruce Felix


Principal Investigator(s)

Dr. Julia M Hummon
hummon@hawaii.edu
University of Hawaii Manoa
Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR)
Honolulu, Hawaii


Location

Supporting Stations: RV/IB Nathaniel B. Palmer
Research Locations: Southern Ocean


Description

This project consists of the maintenance of Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler computer system on the RV/IB Nathaniel B. Palmer. Port calls are required every one to two years to service these systems. Typically, this consists of upgrading or re-installing the UHDAS software on the shipboard data processing computers. Occasionally this will require hardware upgrades that require pre-approval by the U.S. National Science Foundation to ensure the costs are covered by the grant. These computers are used to manage and post-process data.


Field Season Overview

We expect to send one person to Punta Arenas, Chile to service the RV/IB Nathaniel B. Palmer computers sometime during the August through September open period.

No other field work anticipated.