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5. Domestic Organization and Management of an Ocean Exploration Program
5. Domestic Organization and Management of an Ocean Exploration Program
Pages 79-96
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. Briefly, community plans are developed using a broad range of input from stakeholders, planners, and researchers; scientists' plans are developed generally through a series of scientific fore; agency plans seek to meet mission requirements; and legislative mandates are direct congressional requests.
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The National Research Council noted in its report Global Ocean Science that "tt~he effectiveness and to some degree, the character of these major programs can be greatly influenced by the program's structure" (National Research Council, 19991. For that reason, the committee invested substantial time and effort in debating the lead agency and administrative structure for ocean exploration so as to achieve a program that is: 1.
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Placing an exploration program within a single agency, however, can dampen the interagency cooperation that is especially important in ocean research, which unlike space research, is scattered among a number of agencies including NSF, Navy, and NOAA. In recognition of the fact that many federal ocean science agencies bring capabilities and expertise to the table, the U.S.
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group, the Ocean Research Advisory Panel, has already recommended that NOPP embrace ocean exploration as an additional theme area to complement ocean observing and to better engage the public in ocean issues. NOPP is an existing organization that would allow the major agencies with an interest in ocean exploration and the necessary assets, such as NOAA, NSF, and the Navy, to pursue a major program cooperatively, and assume leadership of various aspects as fits with the agency's ability.
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. advantage of placing an ocean exploration program under the auspices of NOPP is that it allows for other member agencies, such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Commission on Ocean Policy. A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Funded Exploration Program In recognition of the need for a separate program for ocean exploration, and in response to the report of the President's Panel on Ocean Exploration (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 2000)
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Outside the agency, the Ocean Exploration program is perceived as favoring internal NOAA agency topics and U.S. coastal regions, as opposed to exploring new frontiers in the least known oceans.
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, which shares some elements of an ocean exploration program: high-tech infrastructure, multidisciplinary research, grants management, and logistical support. NSF management of other successful programs the Ridge Interdisciplinary Global Experiments, the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
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Finally, although NSF has significant input into the scheduling of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System facilities for NSFfunded science, its experience in operating ships through ownership or lease is restricted to the Office of Polar Programs and ODP, and thus it has less control over the capabilities and operations than is necessary for an exploration program. After weighing the issues involved in oversight and funding, perhaps the most appropriate placement for an ocean exploration program under the auspices of NOPP, provided that the problems with routing funds to NOPPsponsored projects is solved.
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The advantages of retaining the management for major programs within the sponsoring agency are that the agency retains ownership of the program, connections to other internal agency programs are tight, and those within the agency who have nurtured the program are rewarded by assuming leadership. In fact, this is the route that NOAA has adopted for its current ocean exploration program.
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SCICOM's responsibilities include: supervision of ODP's Long Range Plan; prioritizing drilling proposals that address the scientific goals of the Long Range Plan; approval of OPCOM's annual drilling schedule; long-term science development; organizing Program Planning Groups; internal and public communication; assigning advisory panels proposals to review; and suggesting prospective Co-Chief Scientists for each drilling leg. ESSEP and ISSEP evaluate drilling proposal quality and foster ocean drilling proposals that concentrate on issues that are best solved by drilling.
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go EXPLORATION OF THE SEAS l FIGURE 5.2 The advisory structure for Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling (modified from Ocean Drilling Program, 2000)
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A thorough qualitative and quantitative analysis of each option led NASA to propose that a nonprofit institute could optimize ISS management. This institute would "perform research leadership functions for ISS, which will maximize return of science results, advanced technologies, and commercial applications" (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2002a)
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The management of an i ndependent Exploration Program for the Oceans (ExPO) office should be competitively awarded.
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AUVs will porpoise up and down through the water column in swath formation along the track, automatically homing in on the support ship periodically for fresh batteries and to download data. The surface ship is equipped with a remotely operated vehicle and a human occupied vehicle to collect for physiological and genetic analysis some of the more unusual, fragile, and undescribed species encountered along the transect.
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INTERNATIONAL GLOBAL OCEAN EXPLORATION COMMITTEE WITHIN THE U.S. OCEAN EXPLORATION PROGRAM Opportunities for international cooperation and collaboration should be sought by the U n ited States.
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This advisory committee would encourage other national programs by example, through facilitating asset leveraging, and by clearly communicating the value of exploration. The IGOE committee also would assist in coordinating those new efforts, and it could play a key role in overcoming barriers to data sharing.
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