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APPENDIX C: BACKGROUND MATERIAL EXAMINED
APPENDIX C: BACKGROUND MATERIAL EXAMINED
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Coastal Ocean Science was "to establish improved predictive capabilities for coastal ocean systems that link physical processes, biogeochemical cycles, and the interactions of living marine resources" (SUSCOS, 1993a)
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The program and expenditure inventory was assembled as a three-way matrix of budget expenditures for coastal research according to science topics (physical processes, biogeochemical cycles, and biological interactions) , environmental regimes of coastal waters (Great Lakes, shorelines, estuaries, and ocean margins)
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The document describes the results of mismanagement of fresh water and freshwater habitats in the United States, the importance of fresh water to society, how mankind is degrading freshwater systems, and the effects of such degradation. The strategic goal of The Freshwater Imperative is "to ensure that water resource managers and policymakers have adequate and timely scientific information to protect, utilize, and enhance the nation's water resources." It is essentially a research plan for the future of limnology, balancing and integrating management and science, and encouraging the conduct of studies with adequate duration to separate natural changes from human-induced ones and to allow the study of cumulative effects.
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These are divided into priorities within several Geographically Focused Research "Laboratories" and five national priority research areas: Integrated Monitoring Water Availability and Flow Water Quality and Aquatic Ecosystem Functions Ecological Restoration and Rehabilitation Predictive Systems Management AGENCY AND SCIENTIFIC COMM[IN~ SCIENCE PLANS It was neither possible nor prudent given the time constraints of this assessment to conduct a broad survey or originate a new process for developing scientific community consensus on the priorities for coastal science. Rather, the committee sought to synthesize and build upon the large number of recent workshop reports, NRC studies, community planning efforts, and agency plans.
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Greater New York Bight Region The goal of the Greater New York Bight RMRP is "to foster regional cooperation and planning in marine research and coastal management in order to enhance the values and uses of the marine environment."2 Planners for this region gathered information about research priorities through a questionnaire sent to more than 200 individuals and organizations in the region. Respondents were asked to identify and rank the three "most important regional marine re 1Alaska Regional Marine Research Program, 1993, Alaska Regional Marine Research Plan, 19921996, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, pp.
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to integrate existing scientific research into a framework for regional management." Gulf of Maine Region Using input from a variety of recent workshops and several regional science and policy bodies, the Gulf of Maine Regional Marine Research Board formed four scientific questions that are of primary importance in their region. "What are the sources, pathways, fates, and effects on living marine resources of contaminants in the Gulf of Maine?
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60 5Insular Pacific Regional Marine Research Program, 1993, Marine Research Plan, 1992-1996, University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program, Honolulu, p.
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25. 9Pacific Northwest Regional Marine Research Program, 1993, Research Plan, 1992-1996, Volume I, university of Washington, Seattle, pp.
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This was done because relevant ecosystems (particularly the California Current) extend south of the border and because the North American Free 10South Atlantic and Caribbean Regional Marine Research Program, 1994, South Atlantic and Caribbean Regional Marine Research Plan, North Carolina Sea Grant College, Raleigh, p.
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habitat protection and management; and (3) restoration of coastal marine habitats.
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