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11 Research and Development Funding for Coastal Science and Management...
Pages 155-164

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... We used mostly national statistical parameters because coastal scientists and engineers are obviously not a distinctive tribe professionally isolated from either their inland peers or offshore colleagues.
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... ~ ~ ~ b~1~11~15~b ~IU loll WdS used nere as ~ malcalor OI me loral number of coastal S&E and as a descriptor of their geographic distribution. In 1986 there were 6000 people included in the American Geophysical Union (AGU)
From page 157...
... Reprinted with permission from American Geophysical Union, 1986.
From page 158...
... for a shrinking budget. However, even if funding increases in the near future, it is unlikely that we will return to the days immediately following World War II, when it was said that "under present conditions, the ceiling on R&D activities is fixed by the availability of trained personnel, rather than by the amounts of money available" (Steelman, 1947)
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... . 1 985 1 990 Year FIGURE 11.2 The rise in non-competitive, or earmarked funds disbursed outside agency initiated requests.
From page 160...
... Nearly half of all articles from federal laboratories were co-authored with educational sector coauthors. TERMINUS Coastal science and management are not particularly overwhelmed with useful data and more data, are required to address the newly arising complications of increased population, limited resources, and complex management milieus.
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... Scientists living there may, or may not, have an academic affiliation at the time of the article publication. United States F
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... University scientists are not natural resource managers but teachers, even scholars, and technically astute. The political demands of government service require skills that are not taught on class field trips or in the research laboratory.
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... REFERENCES American Geophysical Union.
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... Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.


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