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Oceanography in 2028--Mark Abbott
Pages 6-10

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From page 6...
... I intend to follow a different direction and consider the evolutionary pressures that have brought us to our present state and how these forces will likely change. Where we are today Although the basic federal funding model has persisted for several decades, there is increasing dominance by NSF in academic funding, with a shrinking level of support from ONR and a short-term (roughly 10-year)
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From page 7...
... Forty years ago, physical oceanographic research focused on issues relevant to military concerns, such as ocean mixing, sound scattering, and mesoscale eddies, which would affect the ability to detect submarines. But tomorrow's concerns and challenges will require a far higher level of integration of science across the Earth system, including the oft-neglected human dimension.
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From page 8...
... Along with expanded interests in ocean resources (e.g., open ocean aquaculture, deep sea resource extraction, wave energy) , new opportunities will appear, such as iron fertilization as a carbon offset and phytoplankton as an energy source.
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From page 9...
... • We need to develop new business models for oceanographic research that are not frozen in the present structures of tenure based academic institutions or purely soft-money research busi nesses. Broadly based, interdisciplinary research teams do not fit comfortably within the rigid department-based environment of tenure, but they do need long-term stability and persistence to enable high-risk science that is often lacking in consulting firms driven by short-term needs for profitability.
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From page 10...
... Who could have foreseen the dramatic decline in sea-going oceanography just as the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) and Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS)
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