The arrival of the RV Neil Armstrong in April 2016 began a new chapter for Woods Hole (a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to marine research, engineering and higher education); the U.S. Navy and its Office of Naval Research (ONR); and the academic research fleet as a whole. An academic fleet is a collection of 18 vessels, six owned by the Navy, that are supported by the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS), a consortium of more than 60 institutions helping America's scientists and engineers go to seaDurable research vessels, also called AGOR (Auxiliary General-Purpose Oceanographic Research) ships are built to last up to 30 to 40 years, and getting a new one is a rare occurrence. Dr. Frank Herr, head of ONR's Ocean Battlespace Sensing Department, estimates that research on the Neil Armstrong alone will enable more than 11,000 scientific journal articles; generations of scientists who will gain at-sea training while working toward their graduate degrees; and a huge amount of ocean engineering development for new sensors and devices. One important research area is the Indian Ocean's Bay of Bengal, a saltwater body that sees large amounts of freshwater from rivers and rainstorms dumped into it regularly. This intensifies the power of monsoons, which are powerful seasonal winds critical to the agriculture of several nations in the region.
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机译：RV尼尔·阿姆斯特朗（RV Neil Armstrong）于2016年4月到来，为伍兹·霍尔（Woods Hole）（致力于海洋研究，工程和高等教育的私人非营利组织）开启了新篇章；美国海军及其海军研究办公室（ONR）；以及整个学术研究团队。一个学术船队由18艘船组成，其中6艘是海军所有，并得到了大学国家海洋实验室系统（UNOLS）的支持，该系统由60多个机构组成的联盟，帮助美国的科学家和工程师前往海上航行。被称为AGOR（辅助通用海洋学）船的建造时间长达30至40年，而获得新船的情况很少见。 ONR海洋战场传感部负责人Frank Herr博士估计，仅对尼尔·阿姆斯特朗的研究就可以提供超过11,000篇科学期刊文章。几代科学家将在获得研究生学位的同时获得海上培训；以及针对新传感器和设备的大量海洋工程开发。一个重要的研究领域是印度洋的孟加拉湾，这是一个咸水体，定期从河流和暴雨中看到大量淡水。这增强了季风的力量，季风是该地区几个国家农业生产至关重要的季节性强风。
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