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Linking Science and Technology to Society's Environmental Goals (1996) / Chapter Skim
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D. James Baker, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Pages 401-406

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From page 401...
... It is a tribute to Bob that NOAA has remained intact and become a powerful force for environmental stewardship for the United States. Today, I'm going to talk about what NOAA is trying to do, how we are trying to follow through with goals and objectives, and how we measure our success.
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From page 402...
... Even in the United States about half of our fisheries resources are currently overfished. So we have a real challenge if we are to maintain those fishery populations and have both a healthy fishery and a healthy fishery industry.
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From page 403...
... Our strategic plan was developed and is now widely distributed, including on Internet. The NOAA home page shows our seven strategic planning themes: warnings and forecasts for the short-term; seasonal-to-interannual forecasts (El Niño)
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From page 404...
... As an aside, I might note that there was an initial reaction against this by those who were used to working with the budget based on line and program offices rather than on strategic planning themes. Others thought that this budget format made a lot of sense and that we should reorganize the whole agency around our strategic planning themes.
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From page 405...
... Dams are a particular problem, since they make it difficult for salmon to reach their spawning grounds. The United States has decided that it is beneficial to build dams on rivers to produce clean hydropower, but newly spawned salmon find it difficult to travel past the dams.
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From page 406...
... Returning to the broader theme of strategic planning, in the process of developing an agency plan, we are working not only within NOAA but also with a wide range of constituents. We also work very closely with Congress.
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Key Terms

  • lead times
  • weather satellites
  • management plans
  • lead time
  • maintain healthy

  • planning themes
  • zone management
  • fish catch
  • seven strategic
  • coastal zone

  • brass plaques
  • planning teams
  • flash floods
  • management act
  • healthy fishery

  • weather forecasting
  • total fish
  • widely distributed
  • predicting severe
  • tropical warming

  • extreme rain
  • moving north
  • spawned salmon
  • time developing
  • warm regions

  • severe storms
  • fish stocks
  • flash flood
  • initial reaction
  • established goals


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