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7 Infrastructure and Intellectual Capital
7 Infrastructure and Intellectual Capital
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7 Infrastructure and Intellectual Capital This chapter considers whether the draft ORPP adequately addresses the three broad categories of resources -- physical infrastructure, information infrastructure, and intellectual capital -- needed to ensure that the priorities delineated under the six themes of the ORPP are achieved. PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE In general, the draft plan successfully lists most of the types of physical infrastructure that will be required to achieve the ORPP priorities: vessels, earth-sensing satellites, buoys, unmanned vehicles, new sensors (particularly aimed at biological and chemical ocean variables)
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INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE Research needed to address the recommended ocean research priorities will require infrastructure to model, assimilate, analyze, and broadly exchange data and information at levels that currently do not exist. This information infrastructure includes the requisite hardware; software, including models and visualization tools; and personnel to ensure that massive amounts of disciplinary and interdisciplinary ocean sciences data are available for purposes of research, decision and policy making, and public use.
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INFRASTRUCTURE AND INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL 85 current needs of the nation (e.g., NRC, 2000c; OITI Steering Committee, 2002) ; however, these plans were not written in the context of the ocean research priorities outlined here.
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An implementation plan typically includes goals, objectives, needs assessments, and budget -- elements that are essential for evaluating whether resources are adequate to address the research priorities. To provide the information needed to determine adequacy, a clear and focused delineation of goals and objectives as aligned with the themes, priorities, and near-term priorities is needed.
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Education is fundamental to the development of the intellectual capital required to meet the needs of the ORPP and underpins the overarching ability to successfully achieve the ocean research priorities. Without the examination of
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REVIEW OF THE OCEAN RESEARCH PRIORITIES PLAN 88 education as an integral interdisciplinary and multidis ciplinary component of the implementation strategy and budget for the themes and priorities, it is impractical to engage in a discussion regarding the adequacy of infra structure and intellectual capital.
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