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6 Program Planning, Structure, and Organization
6 Program Planning, Structure, and Organization
Pages 83-95
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NATURE OF MAJOR OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAMS: A COMPARISON The spectrum of past and present major oceanographic programs can be subdivided into three groups, based on their origin and histories: (1) current programs with major NSF involvement; (2)
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TOGA: Two converging workshops were held to start TOGA. One workshop was conducted at Princeton under the auspices of the NRC Climate Research Committee (CRC)
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the NSF Advisory Committee for the Ocean Science Program developed a long-range plan titled Emergence of a United Ocean Sciences; and (3) a separate NRC committee identified initial priorities for International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP)
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. The scientific questions behind the present set of major oceanographic programs came forward largely from the oceanographic community.
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Conversely, planning workshops with smaller numbers of attendees and more focused agendas appear to have been the most successful mechanism for actually getting major ocean programs started. Workshops planned through the National Research Council have played an important role in this regard (e.g., WOCE, TOGA, JGOFS, and RIDGE)
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On the positive side, IDOE programs typically involved small groups of self-selected scientists; thus, the administrative costs were small and collegiality within the project was largely quite good. The programs usually held annual principal investigator meetings, and internal communication was very good.
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ONR programs contain a few features that make them markedly different from major programs currently supported in large part by NSF/OCE. ONR programs tend to be very focused and therefore somewhat insular once under
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For example, ONR programs have a well defined length and end; thus, ONR programs are continuously forming and dissolving so that they have a relatively short residence time and don't become stale. NSF/OCE and other sponsors and organizers of any incipient oceanographic programs should maintain the flexibility to consider a wide range of program structures before choosing one that best addresses the scientific challenge.
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Role of Scientific Steering Committee Major oceanographic programs tend to have a scientific steering committee (SSC) with an executive committee and a chair.
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These intermediate-size programs will not work for all of the scientific challenges; however, it is important that adequate flexibility exist to ensure that a spectrum of well-honed, hypothesis-driven programs can be developed. Program Length There has been no standard procedure for determining the end of the present set of major oceanographic programs.
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An iterative assessment and evaluation of scientific objectives and funding should be undertaken in a partnership of major ocean program leadership and agency management. When the nature of the scientific challenge dictates that program duration extends beyond five years, mechanisms should be implemented to ensure that the program continues to meet its objectives and milestones.
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By definition, the science goals of major oceanographic programs are comprehensive and often cross discipline boundaries, casting a net greater than the programmatic venue of a given funding agency and beyond the mission of a single agency. For the present major programs, interagency coordination has
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Although regular interagency meetings would foster better coordination, planners and organizers of new major programs need to recognize that mission agency funding profiles are different and may be shorter than the time scale of a major ocean program. Therefore, major programs need to maximize the chance that agencies can maintain their funding commitment by working to identify research support so that it is consistent with mission agency priorities.
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