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Ocean Sciences at the National Sciences Foundation: Early Revolution
Ocean Sciences at the National Sciences Foundation: Early Revolution
Pages 93-95
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My comments focus on the first two decades of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and on the growth of facilities support, since ships and related shore facilities were essential to the development of ocean science also because that's what I did at NSF.
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The Earth Sciences Program had added John Lyman as associate program director for oceanography in the late 1950s and Dick Bader as an assistant program director by mid-1961. In addition to the new facilities program, BMS brought in marine biologist Dixy Lee Ray as a special consultant to the division director of BMS, John Wilson.
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And what would happen to all the others? The debate about how to respond to the report was underway in October 1969, when William McElroy, who became the third NSF Director in July, set in motion a major reorganization of NSF based on provisions of the National Science Foundation Act of 1968.
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