Building Ocean Science Partnerships The United States and Mexico Working Together (1999) / Chapter Skim
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4 Findings and Recommendations
4 Findings and Recommendations
Pages 83-98
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and Mexican ocean scientists could yield many benefits to the environmental quality, economic prosperity, and quality of science in both nations. In previous chapters, the JWG has discussed both potential science activities and other important actions that would promote binational research.
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The Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean Sea region is a logical location for a regional ocean observing system, coordinated communication networks for research and public education, and large-scale binational research programs. The Loop Current-Florida Current System links the Yucatan Peninsula with South Florida.
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Agencies that fund basic and mission-oriented science activities and oceanrelated industries should be encouraged to become involved with traditional sponsors of fundamental ocean sciences in supporting ocean research activities. The JWG recommends that the agencies that fund ocean sciences in the United States and Mexico consider the research projects described in this report as a basis for new joint research initiatives.
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. However, support of selected explicit binational efforts in ocean sciences, using limited resources, can have a positive effect in highlighting awareness of the importance of these problems in both the national scientific communities and the government agencies, which in turn can facilitate stronger support of the basic national structures.
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, relatively few financial resources have been devoted to funding binational marine science. The governments of the two nations should recognize the importance of these activities by devoting new funds or reprogramming existing funds to binational ocean science activities.
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. For example, the Marine Science and Technology Programme funds basic marine sciences, strategic marine research, and marine technology development to understand marine processes in shared European waters and to "improve coordination and develop European cooperation" (http://europa.eu.int/en/comm/dgl2/marine, 6121197~.
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Recommendation: U.S. and Mexican agencies and foundations should continue to provide support for the U.S.-Mexico Foundation for Science, or similar bodies, for collaborative ocean sciences, enlisting the help of ocean scientists from both nations to select binational research projects.
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Progress in understanding our shared ocean areas could be accelerated in both countries by raising the levels of awareness and information exchange among the scientists, agencies, and ocean science leaders of the two nations. The lack of awareness of ocean science activities by colleagues across the U.S.-Mexico border stems from a number of sources but results primarily because there is not enough binational collaboration of ocean scientists and not enough communication of research results through presentations at scientific meetings and in publications that are accessible to scientists in both nations.
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Recommendation: Governments, agencies, and nongovernmental ocean science organizations in the United States and Mexico should begin to encourage and support a wide variety of mechanisms for scholarly exchanges, as the most costefficient means of increasing the cross-border flow of information and awareness. Exchanges may include students, faculty members, technicians, and government officials; regular academy-to-academy consultations on ocean science issues; information dissemination and sharing; and scientific symposia focused on binational ocean sciences.
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Recommendation: Ocean scientists should make every effort to publish in peerreviewed journals. The NRC and AMC, as well as individual ocean scientists in their roles on journal editorial boards and as reviewers, should act to ensure fair and equitable treatment for publication of papers by Mexican authors in leading marine science journals, many of which are published in English in the United States.
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. Recommendation: The Mexican federal government should investigate the need for an entity of the government responsible for marine affairs, including ocean sciences and technology, either as a new agency or placed within an existing agency.
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In the course of its existence, the OSB has provided advice to the government, ocean scientists, industry, and environmental organizations on the topics of coastal research priorities, fisheries research and management, marine biodiversity, interactions between coastal science and policy, marine mammals and underwater sound, chemical sensors, Arctic Ocean research priorities and facilities, major ocean science programs, global ocean observing systems, and warfare applications of ocean sciences. It also evaluated the status of ocean sciences in the United States in 1992 and has reviewed the research programs of several U.S.
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The binational ocean science community could work with industry by undertaking applied research in direct support of the objectives of marine industries. To engage industry in marine science activities, it would be helpful to develop a binational forum in which scientists and industry representatives could discuss their mutual interests and develop plans for joint activities.
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OBSERVATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE Observations and Instruments Finding: Oceanography is an observational science that has made significant advances in understanding as a result of advances in instrumentation and techniques for observing the ocean. Ocean scientists depend on a variety of observations of oceanic properties and processes collected in situ from ships, moorings, and drifting floats, as well as observations collected from satellites, aircraft, and acoustic arrays.
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An ocean observing system can and should provide information useful both for basic and applied research and for near-real-time marine operations, including information necessary for the continued development of accurate regional and global ocean forecasting capabilities. The benefits of such systems can greatly outweigh their costs.
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and Mexican ocean scientists at some time in the future to determine if the recommendations of this report have been implemented.
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