Marine Facilities Planning - Scientist How To Guide
Marine Facilities Planning is the new system designed to replace the old Ship Time Request System (STRS). This website allows scientists to request ship time on the vessels of the U.S. Academic Research Fleet and then update their funding. Eventually the fleet's cruise planning will also be accomplished through this portal.
Please click on the links below to learn more about each topic. You can find the MFP website here: https://www.mfp.us.
If your questions are not answered below, please email - mfp@unols.org.
A text Help document with a Table of Contents can be found here. Click on a topic in the Table of Contents to be directed to the correct topic.
A list of quick Tutorials can be found here:
Overview
Creating SMEs & Updating Funding Status
- Updating Funding Status (1min)
- Creating an SME (3min)
- Creating an SME for a Project with multiple cruises (5min)
- Piggy-back and Ancillary Projects (2min)
- Download Multiple SMEs as a zip file (1min)
- Duplicate or Cancel an SME (30sec)
Cruise Project Management
Ocean and Global Vessels only
- 7min Intro to Cruise Planning (7min)
- Adding Cruise Participants for a Multi-leg Cruise (3min)
- Adding Cruise Participants - Single-leg cruise (3min)
- The Research Planner module and the Cruise Location Analysis (3min)