New Wave Media

 

This is the first leadership training cruise with deep-submergence assets, and it will be the first ‘telepresence’-enabled leadership training program. Partway through the cruise, participants on R/V Atlantis will move to the Inner Space Center (ISC) at the University of Rhode Island and ISC-based participants will transfer to Atlantis.

 

Key objectives include providing experience in:

     i. collaborative, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research and proposal strategies for deep-submergence science

     ii. leadership in cruise and dive/mission planning and execution

     iii. integration of instrumentation with Alvin/Sentry/other deep-submergence assets

     iv. telepresence research and communication: seafloor-to-ship-to-shore

     v. data management, sharing, reporting

     vi. science communication

 

UNOLS said preference will be given to researchers who have significant potential to write proposals to use the National Deep Submergence Facility (NDSF) assets Alvin, Jason, or Sentry in the next five years. The group is targeting postdoctoral researchers, assistant professors/scientists with less than seven years since their PhD. A limited number of spaces may be available to advanced PhD students. More established researchers may be invited to participate if they have not used (NDSF) assets in the past. All disciplines of deep-submergence science are targeted, including biological, geological, chemical and physical oceanography.

 

Small stipends are provided for participant travel costs, research supplies, and shipping. Space is limited. To apply you must be an employee or student (U.S. Citizen or permanent resident) at a U.S. institution or a U.S. citizen working abroad. 

 

To be considered, applications must be received by March 30, 2016. The online application form is available at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2016_CST_Atlantis