Project Summary for 2005–04–13: ROV Support for Project Oceanica
Project Oceanica at the College of Charleston (Dept. of Geology) requests the use of the Phantom 300 for use on a transects research from May 17 — 21, 2005. The College of Charleston will be responsible for covering the cost of the ROV’s insurance and its transportation from/to Wilmington.
Project Oceanica has recently collaborated with members of NURC on two missions to the Oculina Coral Banks. It is our hope that NURC can once again contribute its considerable assets of technology and expertise to Oceanica, this time in partnership with the new Project Oceanica initiative, the Transects Program, funded in August 2003 by NSF. The Transects Program is lead by co–PI's Dr. Leslie Sautter (Director, Project Oceanica and Associate Professor of Geology, College of Charleston) and Dr. Gorka Sancho (Assistant Professor, College of Charleston’s Biology Department). The vessel to be used for the research is the R/V Savannah — a UNOLS vessel operated by the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography. The November 2003 Transects cruise is the first of four scheduled as part of the 2–year program.
The Transects Program will immerse and engage groups of post–secondary students in a hands–on shipboard oceanographic research experience. A total of four 5–day research cruises will be offered over the 2 year project, each with a scientific party of 3 senior scientists, 1 technician, 8 undergraduate students and 4 graduate students. All students will have taken an oceanography or marine geology course prior to the cruise. Student participants will be responsible for all data collection and analyses conducted onboard the vessel, with appropriate guidance from senior scientists. The use of the Phantom 300 ROV would greatly enhance the program with its visual data collection capability.
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