Elements of a Science Plan for the North Pacific Research Board (2004) / Chapter Skim
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4. Proposed Management and Administration
4. Proposed Management and Administration
Pages 66-78
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Although other approaches can lead to a successful program, the following structure is most appropriate because it provides mechanisms for impartial proposal review, strong science advice, and periodic program review -- some of the elements of a successful science plan outlined in Chapter 2.
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The executive director is tasked with chief administration but lacks administrative staff. As such, administrative staff positions should be established as the NPRB moves forward because one person will not be sufficient to provide scientific leadership and conduct all necessary administrative support functions.
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should be established for each RFP to focus specifically on proposal review. While the members of the Science Panel should cover a broad range of disciplines in order to oversee the science program over the longer term, the members of the Proposal Selection Committee should be narrowly focused on the areas of the current RFP.
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Members of the PSC should be appointed by the executive director, based on advice from the Science Panel. The number of members and the composition of the Proposal Selection Committee should depend on the number of proposals received and their scientific breadth.
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Furthermore, although a local official of the Department of Commerce and NOAA might serve as an NPRB member, the final funding decisions should be approved by the secretary directly or by a representative or designee who is remote from the consequences of local decisions. To avoid any real or perceived conflicts of interest, the individual serving as representative of the secretary of commerce on the NPRB should not be the same individual serving as the secretary's representative or designee for the purposes of approving NPRB funding decisions.
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DATA POLICY AND MANAGEMENT The NPRB is charged with conducting research that will address pressing fishery management or marine ecosystem information needs, with the ultimate goal of developing an integrated understanding of the North Pacific ecosystem. To integrate the data from this large-scale re
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Many research programs have considered data management and policy, and their conclusions could be useful to the NPRB. Policies of the NSF's Hawaiian Ocean Time Series, Bermuda Atlantic Time Series, and Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER)
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The DMO should establish and maintain a user-friendly, web-based data retrieval system patterned after recent successes in the LTER, Ridge InterDisciplinary Global Experiment, Joint Global Ocean Flux Study, and other similar multi-investigator, interdisciplinary research programs. Further, the NPRB should consider discussions with other archiving institutions regarding the development of improved methods for querying the archived materials.
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Proposals entailing partnerships and cost-sharing might be given some priority, but the final decision on funding proposals should be based on the appropriateness of the subject and its scientific merit. Given the variety of groups funding and doing research in an NPRB's region and other areas of interest, the NPRB liaison should interact with these other groups to ensure that the board does not fund proposals in areas that others are already funded.
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The SBI program includes field and modeling studies directed at elucidating the physical and biological shelf and slope processes that influence the structure and function of the Arctic Ocean (for more information, go to http://sbi.utk.edu)
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. The RAISE program facilitates collaborative research between Russian and American scientists studying terrestrial, shelf, and ocean environments in northern Eurasia in the context of global change (for more information, go to http://arctic.bio.utk.edu/RAISE/index.html)
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. Participants in the IABP work together to maintain a network of drifting buoys in the Arctic Ocean to provide meteorological and oceanographic data for real-time operational requirements and research purposes including support to the World Climate Research Program and the World Weather Watch Program (for more information, go to http://iabp.apl.washington.edu/)
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. PICES is an intergovernmental organization aimed at promoting and coordinating marine research in the northern North Pacific and adjacent seas especially northward of 30 degrees North; advancing scientific knowledge about the ocean environment, global weather and climate change, living resources and their ecosystems, and the impacts of human activities; and promoting the collection and rapid exchange of scientific information on these issues (http://www.pices.int/index.asp)
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