Improving the Balance Between Ocean Infrastructure and Ocean Research in the U.S.

Abstract

The Ocean Research Advisory Panel (ORAP) was tasked by the National Ocean Council (NOC)to review and report on recommendations for balancing ocean science infrastructure with ocean research support across the Federal government under an assumption of no new funding. Ocean science research and ocean science infrastructure in the United States is now a complex, multidisciplinary, global, and sustained enterprise embedded in a rapidly developing international context. It is clear to ORAP that ocean research and ocean research infrastructure priorities must be considered together. Without question, however, the need does exist for systematic processes to guide the balance between ocean research and ocean infrastructure investments in a constrained funding environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1146483

Entities

People

  • Bill Dewey
  • Bruce Tackett
  • Camellia Okpodu
  • Cortis Cooper
  • Debborah Luke
  • Gail Scowcroft
  • Kelton Clark
  • Ladon Swann
  • Larry Mayer
  • Mary Ruckelshaus
  • Michael Cerne
  • Molly Mccammon
  • Ned Dikmen
  • Peter Ortner
  • Robert A. Weller

Organizations

  • National Oceanographic Partnership Program

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Climate Change
  • Coast Guard
  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Education
  • Energy Production
  • Environment
  • Environmental Protection
  • Geography
  • Interagency Coordination
  • National Governments
  • Ocean Observing Systems
  • Oceanographic Equipment
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Remote Sensing
  • Remotely Piloted Vehicles
  • Sea Level Rise
  • United States
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers