{"id":141469,"date":"2018-09-13T15:58:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T19:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=141469"},"modified":"2018-10-05T10:09:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T14:09:17","slug":"research-vessel-recommissioned-uconn-avery-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/09\/research-vessel-recommissioned-uconn-avery-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Vessel Recommissioned at UConn Avery Point"},"content":{"rendered":"

The University of Connecticut held a recommissioning ceremony on Thursday morning for the school\u2019s marine research ship, the Research Vessel Connecticut, at its home on the UConn Avery Point campus.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere is great work being done on this ship, from the study of coastal resilience to the study of maritime activity,\u201d said President Susan Herbst during the recommissioning ceremony for the R\/V Connecticut. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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\u201cNot every University president gets to recommission a vessel,\u201d said President Susan Herbst, moments before she performed the traditional breaking of a bottle of champagne against the ship's hull during the recommissioning ceremony. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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Hannes Baumann, left, assistant professor of marine sciences, speaks with Turner Cabaniss, marine and waterfront operations manager, and Zophia Baumann, assistant research professor of marine sciences, in the expanded wet laboratory space aboard the R\/V Connecticut. The upgrades to the vessel included doubling the laboratory space on board. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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The 19-year-old ship has gone through a total makeover over the past year that increased its length from 76 feet to 90 feet. The work doubled the laboratory space on board and increased the number of bunks from 12 to 18, allowing for missions at sea of up to 14 days.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot every university president gets to recommission a vessel,\u201d said President Susan Herbst, moments before she performed the traditional breaking of a bottle of champagne against the ship. \u201cI feel bad for those land-locked presidents. We are a Sea Grant institution, and that is a very important part of our mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

The R\/V Connecticut has been used extensively over the years by UConn researchers in addition to other groups that have chartered it, including the U.S. Navy, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Geological Survey, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.<\/p>\n

In its previous five years of service, the ship spent 474 days at sea and traveled 38,721 miles.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is great work being done on this ship, from the study of coastal resilience to the study of maritime activity,\u201d said Herbst. \u201cWith the R\/V Connecticut now being able to spend up to 14 days at sea, it greatly increases our research opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The head of the marine sciences department, J. Evan Ward, discusses the significance of the research vessel to the department’s research efforts in this video clip:<\/em><\/p>\n