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Front Matter	i-xiv
Summary	1-13	(skim)
1 Introduction	14-23	(skim)
2 Toward New Partnerships in Ocean Sciences	24-46	(skim)
3 Future Directions in Ocean Sciences	47-120	(skim)
4 Human, Physical, and Fiscal Resources	121-170	(skim)
References	171-176	(skim)
I. How the Study Was Conducted	177-180	(skim)
II. Abbreviations and Acronyms	181-183	(skim)
III. Recent Workshop and Other Reports Relevant to Discussion in 'Directions in Biological Oceanography'	184-185	(skim)
IV. Oceanography Manpower Assessment Questionaire: Academic Form	186-188	(skim)
V. Oceanography Manpower Assessment Questionaire: Federal Laboratory Form	189-190	(skim)
VI. Institutional Respondents to Manpower Survey	191-192	(skim)
VII. Federal Respondents to Manpower Survey	193-194	(skim)
Index	195-202	(skim)
Supplementary Photo Plates	203-206	(skim)

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Oceanography has moved into the spotlight of urgent social concern, because of the oceans' impact on issues such as global climate change, biodiversity, and even national security. This new volume points to improved partnerships between ocean scientists, federal agencies, and the oceanographic institutions as the key to understanding the oceans and their effects on our lives.
Oceanography in the Next Decade outlines pressing marine research problems and offers recommendations for how they may be solved, with detailed discussions of

• How oceanographic research is currently conducted.
  
• Recent discoveries and research needs in four subdisciplines--physical, chemical, geological, and biological.
  
• Coastal oceanography, which is important because of growing coastal populations.
  
• The infrastructure of oceanography, with a wealth of information about human, equipment, and financial resources.
  
• A blueprint for more productive partnerships between academic oceanographers and federal agencies.
  

This comprehensive look at challenges and opportunities in oceanography will be important to researchers, faculty, and students in the field as well as federal policymakers, research administrators, and environmental professionals.

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"The authors are to be congratulated for putting together an easily accessible text that is concisely written." --Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Authoring Organizations

• Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources (CGER)
• Earth and Life Studies (DELS)
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