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• Length: 84 foot
• Beam: 24 foot
• Average draft: 10 foot
• Endurance: 30 days
• Gross regulatory tonnage: 153 GRT
• Minimum speed: 1.5 knots
• Maximum speed: 9.5 kts ~15 gallons/hr fuel consumption
• Cruising speed: 8.5 kts
• Fuel capacity: 15,500 gallons
• Lube oil capacity: 100 gallons
• Hydraulic oil capacity: 400 gallons
• Water Maker 2800-gal tank, reverse osmosis 900 gallons of fresh water daily
• Galley: stove, oven, freezer, washer/dryer, eating area
• Wheelhouse captain’s bed
• V-berth sleeps 4 crew forward of the galley with adjacent head and shower
• Below the back deck area there are 2 rooms with 2 bunks each and 1 room with a set of bunks and a single bed, with 2 heads and 1 shower for the science party
• Interior room air conditioning
• Washer and dryer
• Air compressor with attachments throughout the vessel
• Fuel transfer pump for bringing diesel to the aft deck for refueling small vessels
• Main engine Caterpillar 3412 (factory rebuilt 2007) 520 hp
• 2, 60-gallon pumps
• 1, 45-gallon pump
• 1, 35-gallon pump
• John Deer 70-kw generator: 110/220VAC 3 phase
• Isuzu 30-kw generator: 110/220VAC 3 phase
• AC: 110/220VAC single-phase and 220VAC 3 phase
• DC: 12/24/32VDC
• Lights run on 110V so there is always AC power available
• Circuits in dry lab
• Van/deck connections
• Simrad EK60 scientific echo sounder system
• Starlink internet system
• Iridium satellite phone
• 6” x 20’ stainless steel pivoting transducer pole with standard 8-bolt 6” flange
• Dry lab with computer monitors and printer
• Three dedicated work stations that can accommodate seven scientists
• Prime RHIB is 6.4m Volvo diesel I/O; spare RHIB is available. Both boats can be carried on board.
• Decks for visual surveys at 5.5 m and 10 m above the sea surface
• Flow-through water sampling system
• Kongberg AIS 200
• Furuno 1935 AIS Radar 48-mile range, Furuno 1832 Radar 36-mile range
• Comnav 2000 autopilot with 2 Furuno GP 37 GPSs
• Furuno SC502 satellite compass
• Furuno FCV-292 600 watt dual-frequency (50/200) echo sounder
• Dell computer with Nobeltec NavTrack plotting software
• Garmin chart plotter
• Panasonic watch alarm
• Web cam on back deck fed to wheelhouse
• 5-ton knuckle crane (with 32’ reach 2,260#)
• 5-ton stern hydraulic A-frame with Gearmatic slow-speed winch
• H-18 Pullmaster winch 18,000-pound pull high-speed reverse on top of lab
• PL4 Pullmaster winch 4,000 pound pull on top of lab
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• Autonomous glider deployment and retrieval
• Deployment and monitoring of experimental bottom-mounted and mid-water devices

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Bollinger Launches OSU's New Oceanographic Research Vessel

May 25, 2023

R/V Taani is docked in Houma, La. after its launch. Once completed, the National Science Foundation-funded vessel will be operated by Oregon State University. (Photo by Daryl Lai / Oregon State University)

The first of three new oceanographic research vessels dedicated to advancing marine science along U.S. coasts was successfully launched Thursday.

The ship, R/V Taani, is being constructed as part of a project, led by Oregon State University (OSU) and funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), to provide scientists with valuable new tools to study critical issues such as rapidly changing ocean conditions and human impacts on the marine environment.

The Regional Class Research Vessel project, supported by more than $390 million in grants, is charged with delivering three nearly identical ships to the U.S. Academic Research Fleet. The ships are being built by Bollinger Shipyards in Houma, La. with construction staggered about six months between each vessel. Taani will be operated by OSU and based in Newport, Ore.

“Seeing Taani in the water is a very special moment and signifies the promise of many scientific advances to come in the years ahead,” said Tuba Özkan-Haller, dean of OSU’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, which is overseeing the effort for the university. “We are grateful that the National Science Foundation has entrusted us to lead this project.”

The launch was led by Bollinger, which worked with LaShip, a subsidiary of Edison Chouest Offshore. Taani was floated for the first time on May 18 using a drydock.

Once the ship’s hull was submerged five feet, teams of inspectors closely examined the interior for any leaks before completing the launch. The vessel, which is not yet under its own power, was then towed by a pair of tugboats back to where it was assembled at Bollinger Shipyards. It will remain docked there while construction and outfitting are completed.

The shipbuilders will now complete wiring and finish installing equipment and other construction tasks; carry out weeks of operational testing; and conduct sea trials to ensure the vessel is ready for its mission.

“It has taken tremendous dedication and an extraordinary team of designers, shipbuilders, scientists, inspectors, technicians and project and contract managers to bring Taani to life, but there is still much work to be done before the vessel is operational,” said Clare Reimers, Distinguished Professor of Ocean Ecology and Biogeochemistry at OSU, who is the RCRV project scientist and co-principal investigator.

The name Taani, a word used by the Siletz people meaning offshore, was chosen to recognize Oregon’s Indigenous peoples and continues a university tradition of tying names of research vessels to regional Tribes and languages.

The second vessel, the R/V Narragansett Dawn, will be operated by the East Coast Oceanographic Consortium led by the University of Rhode Island. The third vessel, the R/V Gilbert R. Mason, will be based in the Gulf of Mexico. It will be managed by the Gulf-Caribbean Oceanographic Consortium, led by the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and the University of Southern Mississippi.

The 200-foot ships are unique, with new technologies and other features to enhance operational capabilities, improve safety and expand ocean-based research. Each ship is designed to operate with 13 crew and up to 20 scientists for missions extending up to three weeks at sea.

“These are very technically advanced vessels and getting the many systems that scientists use to all fit within the available internal space has been challenging,” said Demian Bailey, OSU’s principal investigator and project manager for the RCRV program. “Opportunities to build a ship like this don’t come along often, and we want to make sure the ocean science community is well equipped for the next couple of decades.”  

Construction of Taani is expected to be completed in 2024. After that, the ship and its new OSU-based crew will spend several months learning to operate the vessel, training on safety protocols and conducting trials of the scientific tools, sensors and equipment in the Gulf of Mexico before bringing the vessel through the Panama Canal and to its home port in Newport. The first research expeditions aboard Taani are expected in 2025 under current timelines.

“The launch of the first RCRV, R/V Taani, is an exciting moment for the oceanographic research enterprise,” said Jim McManus, division director for the National Science Foundation’s Division of Ocean Sciences. “It is fantastic to see this elegant new ship in the water, and we are eager to see the ground-breaking science that will be forthcoming.”

OSU was first awarded a cooperative agreement with the NSF to complete the RCRV design in 2013 and grants to build the three ships followed. The project was initially expected to take about 10 years but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic; multiple Gulf Coast hurricanes, including the category 4 storm Ida in 2021 that caused extensive damage at the shipyard and across Houma; and other challenges.

While the vessels are under construction in Louisiana, there is also a significant effort underway in Oregon to support the project. At an OSU warehouse in Corvallis, a “transition to operations” team is developing and testing scientific sensors and instrumentation; setting up the ships’ cyber infrastructure and ordering tools, equipment and supplies that will be needed to operate the vessels– everything from spare propellers to galley equipment and more.

At Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, a $13 million project is in progress to renovate and upgrade the dock and improve the causeway to accommodate Taani. The original portion of the dock, constructed in the early 1960s, is being replaced with a wider trestle and the power system on the dock will be upgraded as well.

“With a new ship and a new pier, and the hiring of several new ocean-going scientists, we will be ready to get to work once Taani arrives in Newport,” Reimers said. “We have a lot of people who are excited to use this ship. Taani and her crews will shape the future of ocean science and education.”

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National Science Foundation authorizes Oregon State to lead construction of third research vessel

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University has received an additional award of $108.12 million from the National Science Foundation to manage the construction of a third Regional Class Research Vessel to help bolster the nation’s aging academic research fleet.

In 2013, NSF selected Oregon State to lead the initial design phase for as many as three new vessels, and the National Science Board authorized as much as $365 million for the project. Oregon State selected Gulf Island Shipyards, LLC in Houma, Louisiana to construct the first vessel, which OSU will operate. The research vessel Taani will operate primarily in the Pacific Ocean.

Funding for a second vessel was approved in June of 2018, and NSF selected the East Coast Oceanographic Consortium led by the University of Rhode Island to operate the vessel primarily in the Atlantic Ocean. NSF has not yet chosen an operating institution for this third vessel, although it will be targeted for work in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and the southeast Atlantic Ocean. Gulf Island Shipyards will build all three vessels.

The new ships are critical to the nation’s research efforts, said Roberta Marinelli, dean of OSU’s College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences.

“Understanding the ocean’s resources and its role in our future is a national imperative,” Marinelli said. “The Regional Class Research Vessels are state-of-the-art platforms that will add critically needed capacity to understand nearshore oceanic process and living marine resources. OSU is pleased to work with Gulf Island Shipyards, and on behalf of the National Science Foundation, to build these revolutionary vessels for the academic research fleet.”

Demian Bailey, project co-manager for OSU, said the first ship is scheduled to be delivered to Oregon State in the summer of 2021, and will require a year of outfitting and testing before becoming fully operational. The keel-laying ceremony for the first vessel took place last November.

The second ship is scheduled for delivery to Oregon State in January 2022 for similar outfitting before transitioning to the University of Rhode Island.

Construction of the newly announced third ship should begin in November 2019 and be completed six months after the second vessel.

“These new ships will provide significantly enhanced capabilities compared to the academic research fleet vessels scheduled for retirement,” said Clare Reimers, an Oregon State University oceanographer, who helped lead the scientific planning for the ships. “They are essential to advance science-based understanding of ocean processes.”

About the new ships:

• The vessel length is 199 feet with a range of more than 5,000 nautical miles;
• Cruising speed is 11 knots, with a maximum speed of 13 knots;
• There are 16 berths for scientists and 13 for crew members;
• The ship has the ability to stay out at sea for 21 days under normal operating conditions before returning to port for fuel and supplies.

More information on the ships and the project is available at: http://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/ships/rcrv/.

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This video provides a glimpse into the RCRV exhibit.

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Through partnerships with the Science and Math Investigative Learning Experiences (SMILE) Program, Oregon Sea Grant, the Marine Resource Management Program and the Coastal STEM Hub, the Regional Class Research Vessel (RCRV) Project is working to meet Outreach & Education goals. The Outreach and Education Plan has three main components:

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• Researcher Education and Professional Development

By developing or contributing to educational programs and exhibits we hope to help the public understand the importance of the Ocean to the world, country and local communities.

Through curricula, videos and other forms of information that will be shared with educators during professional development events, we hope to increase ocean and data literacy and show K-12 students how scientific observations made at sea are the crux of understanding, discovering, tracking and predicting natural and human-impacted processes within and beyond the Ocean.

In providing professional development opportunities for researchers, we hope to build and maintain effective infrastructure services aboard each RCRV that can enable each science party to set and achieve meaningful broader outreach and education goals seamlessly and with minimal costs.

As the project progresses, so will our educator resources. Take a look at what we have:

Promising Practices and Considerations for RCRV Outreach and Education: Lessons Learned from Research on How the Next Generation of Regional Class Research Vessels Can Support Equitable Data Literacy Education

One of the integral parts of this O&E plan was to bring onboard two OSU Marine Resource Management graduate research assistants from 2017-2020 to conduct research that focused on how to meet the overarching goal. This report shares the highlights from this research and begins to lay out the commitment of time and other resources needed to create and implement O&E that is effective (in that it improves understanding and brings together scientists, educators, and students in the pursuit of a more data-literate society) AND inclusive (in that it recognizes that O&E needs to be culturally responsive and employ strategies that engage diverse audiences).

The curriculum created by the 2020-2021 ORSEA cohort are now available on the ORSEA website . ORSEA connects math and science educators with scientists to create and pilot lessons centered around marine-focused anchoring phenomena. ORSEA supports data science education and ocean literacy, while also exposing students to a variety of marine-related careers. This project is funded by Oregon Sea Grant and the National Science Foundation through OSU's Regional Class Research Vessel Project. We are currently recruiting teachers and researchers to participate in the 2021-2022 cohort. More information and applications are also available on the website above.

RCRV: Human Sonar Simulation

Students will learn about Sound wave properties and Sound Waves and their application in SONAR. Students will enact RV Taani's SONAR system to map the seafloor. Students will qualitatively communicate the properties of waves and their application in collecting and communicating information by SONAR systems.

Ocean Careers and Holland Games

Students will learn their Holland Code, learn about their career interests and ocean careers, and discuss how ocean careers relate to science, technology, engineering and math.

Build a Boat for Scientific Research

In this lesson students will build a boat for scientific research. In the process they will learn about buoyancy, boat design, and tradeoffs to meet needs/goals (speed, stability, weight, and space).

Mission Submersible

Students will design and build a working model of a launch and recovery system from a set of everyday items. The goal is that whatever they develop has safety features that limit swinging on a moving research vessel. Systems must be able to pick up and launch/recover “scientific packages” of varying sizes and weights and safely place them into the “ocean” and bring them back aboard the vessel.

Mystery of the Disappearing Pteropods: Dude Where's My Shell

In this lesson, students must recognize and identify patterns within the population of pteropods they are studying, analyze those patterns, and then create a claim about what is happening to the pteropods population. Their teams will then be tasked with presenting that claim to ‘ODFW’ based on evidence that they collected.

Engineering a Solution to Marine Debris

Students will learn about the most prevalent type of marine debris: plastics and microplastics. Students explore a variety of ways scientists have engineered solutions to marine debris. Students will design their own trash collectors to remove marine debris from the oceans, and beaches, or prevent it from entering the waterways.

In the Belly of the Whale

Students work in cooperative groups and participate in a hands-on activity that simulates the feeding methods of the humpback, right, and gray whales. Students collect data and construct a bar graph to compare the feeding styles of these three baleen whales, and share findings with the class.

Plastic Soup

Students talk about what the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is and how it got there. Students explore a variety of types of marine debris. Students will view a demonstration about how floating debris acts, and how ocean debris is affected by wind currents. Students play a matching game that will help them determine what types of organisms would be affected by which types of marine debris.

Secret Life of Plankton

Students learn about the diversity of plankton and are then challenged to design a planktonic organism. The best model of a planktonic organism will sink slowly or be neutrally buoyant representing the real-world planktonic organisms. Students will watch a video and be given pictures of planktonic organisms and then be provided with simple materials to build with. After designing with their team mates, students test and race their plankton in a simulated ocean.

Voices from the Deep

Students analyze popular and classical songs to understand how people use music to communicate. Students construct a graph to diagram real whale song sounds and create lyrics for whale song phrases. In addition, students will examine ways scientists capture whale songs and human sources of noise pollution in whale habitats.

You Are What You Eat

In this lesson students build on their knowledge of marine debris. Students will learn that whales and other species are increasingly at risk from plastics and microplastics. Students will play an interactive game based on whale feeding strategies and whale exposure to plastic associated toxins.

Volcanoes: The Ring of Fire in the Pacific Northwest

Students will learn about the most active submarine volcano located 300 miles of the coast of Oregon — Axial Seamount. This submarine volcano is home to the first underwater research station called the Cabled Axial Seamount Array, from which researchers stream data and track underwater eruptions via fiber optic cables. Students will learn that researchers also monitor Axial Seamount using research vessels and remote operated vehicles.

The Axial Seamount: Life on a Vent

Students will learn about ecosystems at hydrothermal vents. Hydrothermal vents were only discovered in 1977, and as more vents are explored we are finding out more about the unique creatures that live there. In Life on a Vent students will learn about vent organisms, their feeding relationships, and use that information to construct a food web.

More RCRV Themed Activities!

The RCRV Project also partnered with MBARI Earth 2018 workshop. They have developed several RCRV themed lessons, such as Introduction to Remote Operated Vehicles, Building your Shipwright (web quest for ocean research), and several other marine themed lessons. These lessons can be found at the link below.

Taking the Temperature of Ancient Oceans

Students will learn that ocean temperature changes affect the composition foram shells (e.g. fossils), and that scientists measure those changes to infer ancient ocean temperatures. Students will use this fossil evidence to reconstruct a model of ancient ocean temperatures of a particular research site. Students will engage in graphing, creating a mode, making predictions, and argument from evidence as they reconstruct ancient ocean temperatures and make predictions based on their findings.

A Sea of Data & Outreach Recommendations

These four lessons, three stand alone and one in-depth extension, were developed to engage high school students in ocean science data using the Next Generation Science Standards. These lessons were piloted and developed as a graduate student research related to the Regional Class Research Vessel (RCRV) Program. Included in the file is also recommendations for ocean researchers, R/V operating institutions, and other professionals who seek to engage learners, educators, and scientists in developing data driven educational outreach materials.

Visualizing Ocean Data - Jane the Glider

How can we visualize data collected by Glider Jane to understand the relationships that drive ocean mixing and circulation? Students will learn about under water gliders, engage in visualizing data collected by OSU's Glider Jane, and identify key relationships between depth, pressure, density, salinity and temperature as they support ocean circulation.

Ocean Engineering Challenge - Helping Hands at the Bottom of the Sea

How can your team design a model "Helping Hand" for a ROV that lets you grab different objects and drop them into a container/bucket that's at least two feet away from you, using the available supplies? Students will learn about ROVs and related careers, engage in the engineering of a "Helping Hand" to meet specific criteria, design, revise and redesign their "Helping Hand," and evaluate design solutions that best meet the design criteria.

Ocean Engineering Challenge - Save the Soup

How can we design a personal flotation device (PFD) for a can of soup that can be put on it by one group member in less than 20 seconds and allow it to float for more than one minute using the available supplies? Students will learn about PFDs, engage in the engineering of a PFD to meet specific criteria, design, revise, and redesign their PFDs, and evaluate design solutions that best meet the design criteria.

Undergraduate and Graduate Student Engagement

The RCRV team has a graduate student from the Marine Resource Management Program. This student is doing research by communicating with experts on the use and communication of real time data for researchers, educators and websites. This research will help to guide outreach efforts within the project. In addition, the student is doing thesis work on improving high school science students attitudes towards science and their scientific literacy. This is done by testing different types of learning activities, including a data centered learning experience.

The SMILE program engages undergraduate students in the RCRV project by incorporating them as mentors in events as well as through a partnership with the Mechanical Engineering (ME)undergraduate program. As part of their “capstone project”, a team of students were challenged to build a model launch and recovery arm that represented what will be on new research vessels. The final model was used by over 300 middle and high school students during annual engineering challenges throughout Oregon as an example from which to build their own simpler version and to launch a prototype underwater rover. Students documented their process in videos that they created for middle and high school students. Check them out here:

Mechanical Engineering Team Videos

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HVAC & Refrigeration | OSU Research Vessel

We are proud to announce that we have been awarded the contract to supply the HVAC/R for an oceanographic research vessel, to be built by Gulf Island Shipyards, LLC for Oregon State University.

For a better understanding of our changing oceans, Oregon State University has just received a grant of $121.88 million from the National Science Foundation to spearhead the construction of a new class of research vessels for the United States Academic Research Fleet. The first vessel is slated to be operated by OSU for research missions focusing on the U.S. West Coast. This new class of modern well-equipped ships is essential to support research encompassing marine physical, chemical, biological and geologic processes in coastal waters. These new vessels will provide valuable scientific capacity for better understanding our changing oceans.

We will deliver the HVAC, mechanical ventilation and provision cooling for the research vessel. In order to ensure proper performance of the scientific instrumentation on board, there is special emphasis on minimizing vibration, airborne noise, and underwater radiated noise from equipment on board the ship. An engine waste heat recovery system will be used to support the vessel heating load, making the HVAC system more energy-efficient.

Design Conditions

The HVAC installation has been designed to maintain the following inside conditions at the stated ambient conditions:

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Request for Proposals for the 2023-2025 “Oceangoing Research Vessel Program”

Oregon State University (OSU) requests proposals for the use of the OSU’s research vessels to conduct research and study of the waters of the Pacific Coast. Pending approval by the Oregon legislature, the State of Oregon is planning to provide approximately $350,000 under the “Oceangoing Research Vessel Program” in each year of the biennium beginning on July 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2025.

• Date of Issue: February 20,2023
• Due Date: March 31, 2023, 5:00pm, Pacific Time
• Target Date for Notice of Award: April 28, 2023
• RFP Information available to download here .

Further Information

• For further information about the proposal process, questions about eligibility or suitability of potential proposals for use of OSU research vessels, please contact Research Vessel Council Chair Jack Barth (1-541-737-1607,  [email protected] ).
• For questions about OSU research vessel operational capabilities and availability of the R/V Elakha and the R/V Taani please contact OSU Marine Superintendent Kaya Johnson (1-541-867-0225,  [email protected] ).
• For questions about OSU research vessel operational capabilities and availability of the R/V Pacific Storm please contact Barb Lagerquist (1-541-867-0322,  [email protected] ).
• For questions about the capabilities of OSU’s research vessels’ scientific equipment and remote presence, capabilities please contact OSU Marine Technician Superintendent Andrew Woogen (1-541-737-4622,  [email protected] ).

Please note funding for this program is contingent on future appropriation from the Oregon Legislature.  If funding is not approved at the expected level, OSU may issue no awards or a reduced number of awards.

• Proposals should be a maximum of 5 pages including a 1-page Curriculum Vitae for the Principal Investigator. Appendices are not allowed, but use of Web URLs is allowed.
• Proposers  - attach a PDF version of the proposal by the RFP deadline: Through this   SMARTSHEET FORM

Problems with the Smartsheet form - email [email protected]

Please review all the following RFP Details and Guidelines:

New for this biennium only: OSU is planning for large vessel operations onboard the R/V Taani, the new NSF-funded Regional Class Research Vessel. The R/V Taani may be ready for service in late fall 2024. Therefore, a large OSU research vessel is not available until the final half year of this biennium, that is the first 6 months of 2025. Based on this schedule, proposals for work on R/V Taani during the first half of 2025 are encouraged. For the second half of 2023 and all of 2024, proposals are welcome that make use of OSU’s R/V Elakha and R/V Pacific Storm. More details about these vessels are provided below. We appreciate proposer’s flexibility during the transition to the R/V Taani and look forward to the outstanding capabilities of this new state-of-the-art research vessel. Potential areas of research include, but are not limited to: (a) Mapping the seabed in Oregon’s territorial sea, as defined in ORS 196.405; (b) Analyzing marine ecosystems, including but not limited to existing marine reserves, existing marine protected areas, proposed marine reserves and proposed marine protected areas; (c) Analyzing the potential effects of climate change, including but not limited to ocean acidification; (d) Compiling comprehensive assessments of overall ocean health; (e) Understanding ocean dynamics, including but not limited to natural hazards such as tsunamis; and (f) Installing instruments to effectively monitor the impact of wave energy systems, marine reserves and marine protected areas on marine ecosystems and fish populations. Educational activities might include, but are not limited to, university-level classes about oceanographic research and/or the techniques of making oceanographic measurements at sea. Graduate students enrolled in an Oregon public 4-year university are encouraged to consider submitting a proposal as Principal Investigator and/or to serve as Chief Scientist during the approved ship days. Proposals for ship use away from the waters of the Pacific Northwest coast, that is, those that coordinate with OSU research vessel work in other parts of the world’s oceans, may be considered, but priority will be given to research proposed for Pacific Northwest waters, with particular emphasis on waters off the Oregon coast. A list of previous projects supported by this program is available at: https://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/oceangoing-research-vessel-program .

During 1 July 2023 to 30 December 2024, proposals that make use of OSU’s R/V Elakha and R/V Pacific Storm are welcome. Based on the day rates for these vessels, approximately 50-60 days may be available during this time period. Given the intent to use these days for a number of diverse activities, proposers are discouraged from asking for the entire allotment of ship days. A suggested target amount for an individual proposal is 5-10 days. Special circumstances may be discussed with the Chair of the Research Vessel Council (see Review Process and Further Information below). The 54-foot R/V Elakha is a small research vessel designed for day use in coastal and estuarine waters, and has a small laboratory area, berthing for four, and a small galley. The R/V Elakha can accommodate a scientific party of up to 8 for trips less than 12 hours offshore, up to 2 for longer trips offshore where two operators will be required (limited by sleeping accommodations), and up to 13 for trips inside Yaquina Bay or other inland waters. Scientific capabilities include a 1,000-pound capacity A-frame and winch, and a flow-through water sampling system. For further information about the R/V Elakha capabilities, please see https://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/rv-elakha . The 84-foot R/V Pacific Storm is a medium, steel-hulled research vessel with a 24-foot beam that is outfitted for year-round coastal service. The vessel can accommodate up to 7 people (beyond the crew) in 3 cabins for overnight and extended science missions up to 30 days duration. The R/V Pacific Storm has excellent low-speed handling and positioning. A 5-ton articulating A-frame on the stern can launch and recover small boats, moorings, and sampling equipment. Additional features include a dry-lab, flow-through thermosalinograph, satellite internet, knuckle boom with a 5-ton lifting capacity, and an aft deck area measuring 29’ long by 22’ wide. For further information about the R/V Pacific Storm capabilities, please see https://mmi.oregonstate.edu/research-vessels .

Proposals for work from 1 January to 30 June 2025 During 1 January to 30 June 2025, proposals that make use of OSU’s R/V Taani are welcome. However, we request that successful applicants be prepared to consider alternative approaches should there be further delay in the start of the R/V Taani’s service. If further delay occurs, we will work with successful applicants to get their projects to sea. At the projected R/V Taani day rate, including a marine technician to assist in the use of shipboard scientific equipment and over-the-side operations plus in-port charges, the number of days of ship time able to be supported will be limited. Therefore, proposals for use of the R/V Taani should be submitted for projects that utilize up to, but not limited to, 5 days. Special circumstances may be discussed with the Chair of the Research Vessel Council (see Review Process and Further Information below). The 199-foot R/V Taani is a Regional Class Research Vessel designed for expeditions lasting approximately 3 weeks and accommodates a scientific party of up to 16, possibly increased by 4 more using a berthing van. Outfitted with multiple winches and a crane, the R/V Taani will be capable of deploying oceanographic buoys and moorings and for hydrographic surveys. It is also capable of all types of chemical, biological, and geological studies. For further information about the R/V Taani capabilities, please see https://ceoas.oregonstate.edu/regional-class-research-vessel-rcrv . Given the research vessel scheduling process, proposals asking for ship days in 2025 will need to fit those days into the draft R/V Taani 2025 schedule. Proposers are encouraged to explore potential available days in the first half of 2025, subject to change, with OSU Marine Superintendent Kaya Johnson (1-541-867-0225, [email protected] ).

During 1 January 2022 to 30 June 2023, proposals that make use of OSU’s R/V Elakha and R/V Pacific Storm are welcome. Based on the day rates for these vessels, approximately 50-60 days may be available during this time period. Given the intent to use these days for a number of diverse activities, proposers are discouraged from asking for the entire allotment of ship days. A suggested target amount for an individual proposal is 5-10 days. Special circumstances may be discussed with the Chair of the Research Vessel Council (see Review Process and Further Information below).

The 54-foot R/V Elakha is a small research vessel designed for day use in coastal and estuarine waters, and has a small laboratory area, berthing for four, and a small galley. The R/V Elakha can accommodate a scientific party of up to 8 for trips less than 12 hours offshore, up to 2 for longer trips offshore where two operators will be required (limited by sleeping accommodations), and up to 13 for trips inside Yaquina Bay or other inland waters. Scientific capabilities include a 1,000-pound capacity A-frame and winch, and a flow-through water sampling system.

The 84-foot R/V Pacific Storm is a medium, steel-hulled research vessel with a 24-foot beam that is outfitted for year-round coastal service. The vessel can accommodate up to 7 people (beyond the crew) in 3 cabins for overnight and extended science missions up to 30 days duration. The R/V Pacific Storm has excellent low-speed handling and positioning. A 5-ton articulating A-frame on the stern can launch and recover small boats, moorings, and sampling equipment. Additional features include a dry-lab, knuckle boom with a 5-ton lifting capacity, and an aft deck area measuring 27’ long by 23’ wide.

During 1 July to 31 December 2021, proposals that make use of OSU’s R/V Oceanus are welcome. At the current R/V Oceanus day rate, including a marine technician to assist in the use of shipboard scientific equipment and over-the-side operations, plus in-port charges this amounts to about 10 days of ship time per year. Given the number of ship days supported under this program and the intent to use them for a number of diverse activities, proposers are discouraged from asking for the entire allotment of ship days. Therefore, proposals for use of the R/V Oceanus should be submitted for projects that utilize up to, but not limited to, 5 days. Special circumstances may be discussed with the Chair of the Research Vessel Council (see Review Process and Further Information below).

The 177-foot R/V Oceanus is a mid-sized research vessel designed for expeditions lasting two to four weeks and accommodates a scientific party of up to 13, possibly increased by a few under special arrangements. Outfitted with three winches and a crane, the R/V Oceanus is often used for deploying oceanographic buoys and moorings and for hydrographic surveys, though it is capable of all types of chemical, biological, and geological studies.

Given the research vessel scheduling process, proposals asking for ship days in 2021 will need to fit those days into the draft R/V Oceanus 2021 schedule. Potential available days in the second half of 2021, subject to change, are in mid-August to late September, and from mid-November to the end of the year.

Please include information about what additional resources you will bring to augment the use of the research vessel days or how the proposed work will help you leverage further study. Examples include providing specialized sampling equipment to augment the OSU research vessel’s scientific equipment, providing education and/or outreach support, or plans for using the results obtained during the state-supported ship days as a basis for seeking further support.

Who May Submit

Proposals may be submitted by Oregon state agencies and by students and faculty at Oregon public 4-year universities. Collaborative proposals with Oregon community colleges or other educational entities, but led and submitted by Oregon state agencies or students and faculty at Oregon public 4-year universities are encouraged.

Proposal Format 

Proposals should be a maximum of 5 pages including a 1-page Curriculum Vitae for the Principal Investigator. Appendices are not allowed, but use of Web URLs is allowed. 

Proposals will be evaluated by the Research Vessel Council, consisting of seven members appointed by the President of Oregon State University. Members include a trained scientist with at least five years of marine research experience, one member who has expertise in marine operations or marine education, and one member from each of the following agencies: State Department of Fish and Wildlife; State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries; Department of Land Conservation and Development; and Department of Environmental Quality. Proposals will be evaluated on the basis of the: (a) Proposal’s geographical area of study; (b) quality of the submitted management, research or educational rationale; (c) potential for leveraging future work; and (d) feasibility of accommodating the proposed work within the schedule of federally funded projects for the research vessel.

Data collected during ship days funded under this request using the R/V Oceanus general use shipboard scientific equipment (e.g., flow-through water property system, Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, Conductivity-Temperature-Depth) will be reported to the national data archives (e.g., National Geophysical Data Center – NGDC, National Oceanographic Data Center - NODC) using the Rolling Deck to Repository system ( www.rvdata.us ). Other data, in particular, those obtained using equipment supplied by the Principal Investigator, remain the property of the Principal Investigator although the Principal Investigator is encouraged to submit their data to appropriate national and state data archives. The Principal Investigators selected under this announcement shall provide a summary of the research, scholarly findings and educational and outreach activities conducted using the allotted ship days to the Research Vessel Council no later than the first of September following the end of Oregon fiscal year during which they sailed (1 September 2024 for cruises between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024; 1 September 2025 for cruises between 1 July 2024 and 30 June 2025). Please include a list of all persons sailing aboard the OSU research vessels or directly benefiting from the proposed activities, including their affiliation and role. These summaries may be sent to the Chair of the Research Vessel Council whose contact information appears below.

• For further information about the proposal process, questions about eligibility or suitability of potential proposals for use of OSU research vessels, please contact Research Vessel Council Chair Jack Barth (1-541-737-1607, [email protected] ).
• For questions about OSU research vessel operational capabilities and availability of the R/V Elakha and the R/V Taani please contact OSU Marine Superintendent Kaya Johnson (1-541-867-0225, [email protected] ).
• For questions about OSU research vessel operational capabilities and availability of the R/V Pacific Storm please contact Barb Lagerquist (1-541-867-0322, [email protected] ).
• For questions about the capabilities of OSU’s research vessels’ scientific equipment and remote presence, capabilities please contact OSU Marine Technician Superintendent Andrew Woogen (1-541-737-4622, [email protected] ).

Contact Info

Division of Research and Innovation A312 Kerr Administration Corvallis, OR  97331-2140 Phone 541-737-3467

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Winner of $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot is an immigrant from Laos who has cancer

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April 29, 2024, 9:06 PM

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SALEM, Ore. (AP) — One of the winners of a $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot this month is an immigrant from Laos who has had cancer for eight years and had his latest chemotherapy treatment last week.

Cheng “Charlie” Saephan, 46, of Portland, told a news conference held by the Oregon Lottery on Monday that he and his 37-year-old wife, Duanpen, are taking half the money, and the rest is going to a friend, Laiza Chao, 55, of the Portland suburb of Milwaukie. Chao had chipped in $100 to buy a batch of tickets with them. They are taking a lump sum payment, $422 million after taxes.

“I will be able to provide for my family and my health,” he said, adding that he’d “find a good doctor for myself.”

Saephan, who has two young children, said that as a cancer patient, he wondered, “How am I going to have time to spend all of this money? How long will I live?”

After they bought the shared tickets, Chao sent a photo of the tickets to Saephan and said, “We’re billionaires.” It was a joke before the actual drawing, he said, but the next day they won.

Chao, 55, was on her way to work when Saephan called her with the news: “You don’t have to go anymore,” he said.

Saephan said he was born in Laos and moved to Thailand in 1987, before immigrating to the U.S. in 1994. He wore a sash at the news conference identifying himself as Iu Mien, a southeast Asian ethnic group with roots in southern China. Many Iu Mein were subsistence farmers and assisted American forces during the Vietnam war; after the conflict, thousands of Iu Mien families fled to Thailand to avoid retribution and eventually settled in the U.S.

Tens of thousands of Iu Mien people live along the West Coast, with a sizeable and active community in Portland.

Saephan graduated from high school in 1996 and has lived in Portland for 30 years. He worked as a machinist for an aerospace company.

In the weeks leading up to the drawing, he wrote out numbers for the game on a piece of paper and slept with it under his pillow, he said. He prayed that he would win, saying, “I need some help — I don’t want to die yet unless I have done something for my family first.”

The winning Powerball ticket was sold in early April at a Plaid Pantry convenience store in Portland, ending a winless streak that had stretched more than three months. The Oregon Lottery said it had to go through a security and vetting process before announcing the identity of the person who came forward to claim the prize.

Under Oregon law, with few exceptions, lottery players cannot remain anonymous. Winners have a year to claim the top prize.

The jackpot had a cash value of $621 million before taxes if the winner chose to take a lump sum rather than an annuity paid over 30 years, with an immediate payout followed by 29 annual installments. The prize is subject to federal taxes and state taxes in Oregon.

The $1.3 billion prize is the fourth largest Powerball jackpot in history, and the eighth largest among U.S. jackpot games, according to the Oregon Lottery.

The biggest U.S. lottery jackpot won was $2.04 billion in California in 2022.

Johnson reported from Seattle.

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