A review of the Ocean Research Priorities Plan and implementation strategy / Committee to Review the Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology's Research Priorities Plan, Ocean Studies Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oceanography--Research--Government policy--United States.

Marine sciences--Research--Government policy--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : National Academies Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ocean research offers countless benefits, from improving fisheries management to discovering new drugs to enabling early detection of tsunamis and hurricanes. At the request of the Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology (JSOST), the National Research Council convened a committee to review the draft and final versions of the Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy described in Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States: Research Priorities for the Next Decade, which represents the first coordinated national ocean research planning effort involving all federal agencies that support ocean science. The plan presents an ambitious vision for ocean research that will be of great benefit to the ocean sciences community and the nation. This book contains both sets of findings (i.e., the committee's review of the JSOST's draft plan A Review of the Draft Ocean Research Priorities Plan: Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States] and the review of the final plan). This book recommends that JSOST employ a variety of outreach mechanisms to continue to engage nonfederal partners in ocean research planning efforts, such as establishing external committees to provide scientific and technical advice and to review progress on implementation of the research plan.

Contents:

FrontMatter

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

Part I: A Review of the Draft Ocean Research Priorities Plan: Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States

Executive Summary

Summary

1 Introduction and Background

2 Development of the Ocean Research Priorities Plan

3 Assessment of the Overall Plan

4 Evaluating Thematic Priorities and Cross-Theme Integration

5 Interdisciplinary and Multi-Mission Ocean Research

6 Evaluation of Near-Term Priorities

7 Infrastructure and Intellectual Capital

Part II: A Review of the Final Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy

1 Evolution of the Plan in Response to Community Input

2 Planning, Review, and Implementation

References

Appendixes

A Committee and Staff Biographies

B Acronyms.

Notes:

"... review of the final Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy, Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States for the Next Decade ...." -- introd.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 121-123).

ISBN:

9786611093549

9780309179638

0309179637

9781281093547

1281093548

9780309110648

0309110645

OCLC:

290490593