A Review of the Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy (2007) / Chapter Skim
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The draft plan was prepared by the National Science and Technology Council's Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology (JSOST) as called for in the U.S.
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Alternatively, the use of cross-cutting themes, similar to the approach in the Planning Document for the Ocean Research Priorities Plan (JSOST, 2006a) but placed early in the ORPP, would give these issues greater emphasis and illustrate many of the connections among the themes.
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• How could the implementation strategy provided in the Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy be expanded or modified to ensure continuity of community-wide planning and implementation? • What processes could be employed to assess progress in addressing the priorities and to reevaluate the priorities in light of new information or emerging ocean issues?
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RECOMMENDATION: The Ocean Research Prior ities Plan should provide a bold and compelling vision for the future of ocean science research. This vision should be placed near the front of the plan and referenced in the discussions of theme priorities.
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These challenges would facilitate the identification of more tightly formulated research priorities under each theme and, importantly, would galvanize the ocean research and policy communities around the plan. The draft plan identifies specific criteria by which research priorities were selected.
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REVIEW OF THE OCEAN RESEARCH PRIORITIES PLAN 12 cases, the science described in the supporting text is too prescriptive with regard to the type of research activities required to address the priorities. In addition, the plan lacks both a schedule for addressing the priorities and specific benchmarks for measuring progress.
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The committee also believes that the discussion of this theme fails to capture a sense of the imperiled status of our ocean resources, the changes in human behavior necessary to achieve sustainability for renewable resources, and the difficulty of the science needed to solve these problems. In addition, the committee found it difficult to identify those resources and research priorities that the report classifies as cultural.
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The document provides justification for further research by correctly noting that marine operations can be expected to grow in importance in the future and therefore require a strong ocean science and technology base to maintain their vitality. The priority statements in this section would be improved if they were made more specific and inspiring.
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SUMMARY 15 RECOMMENDATION: The plan should clearly dis tinguish operational activities from research goals. These goals should be broader than marine trans portation and include areas such as national defense, fishing, and recreation.
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REVIEW OF THE OCEAN RESEARCH PRIORITIES PLAN 16 be learned about the structure, function, and vulnerability of these systems. However, there are still some significant knowledge gaps that the plan misses, including factors that control ecosystem stability and productivity, processes acting across interfaces, linkages among ecosystem types, and ultimately, the relationship between marine ecosystems and the larger ocean-earth-atmosphere system.
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INTERDISCIPLINARY AND MULTI MISSION OCEAN RESEARCH Major ocean research and management challenges facing our nation require interdisciplinary approaches and cut across the defined missions of individual government agencies. The complexity of these challenges should be matched by the use of sophisticated approaches that draw on expertise from a range of disciplines in order to enhance knowledge and apply that knowledge to the development of scientifically sound management strategies.
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The real test of a commitment to move beyond historical disciplinary and organizational barriers will be determined by whether the implementation strategy presents a pathway to break down barriers between disciplines and agencies to facilitate multidisciplinary, multi-mission programs. The emphasis on multidisciplinary, multi-mission efforts and collaboration above should not be interpreted as a recommendation to abandon or downplay the importance of disciplinary training.
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RECOMMENDATION: The near-term priorities should include a description of the relationship be tween what is already being done in each area and how it will be expanded under the research plan. RECOMMENDATION: The time frames for con duct of near-term and longer-term research should be clearly defined with a discussion of the balance of effort between the two sets of priorities.
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The discussion of information infrastructure essentially parallels the discussion of physical infrastructure. Plans exist that address needed information infrastructure for ocean sciences, but these plans were not written in the context of the ocean research priorities.
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