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Two Years of Turbulence Leading to a Quarter Century of Cooperation: The Birth of UNOLS
Two Years of Turbulence Leading to a Quarter Century of Cooperation: The Birth of UNOLS
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"To the extent possible," members would be assured of multiyear funding for ship operations. To the oceanographic institutions that were looking for long-term stable funding, the NOLS proposal threatened to vest management authority, if not the actual operation of the ships, in the hands of NSF.
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Iselin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts; Fritz Koczy, Manne Laboratory of the University of Miami, Miami, Florida; Sumner Pike, Lubec, Maine, formerly commissioner, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; Colin Pittendrigh, Department of Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; Roger Revelle, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California; Gordon Riley, gingham Oceanographic Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; Milner B
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U.S. leadership in marine science depended mainly on the work of a small number of major oceanographic institutions, such as the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory.
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With regard to regional coordination, Fye recommended that Scripps, Woods Hole, and Lamont form an interinstitutional committee to review scientific programs and ship scheduling for worldwide ship operations, and that similar groups be established for operations for the East Coast, West Coast, Gulf of Mexico, and Great Lakes regions. In the remainder of his four-page letter, he made a strong plea for stable core support for the oceanographic laboratories and that the laboratories be free to manage themselves.
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Not too surprisingly the panel consisted of laboratory directors, former directors, and other leaders.2 The panel indicated that the NOLS plan as formulated by NSF "has substantial merit and that its adoption in the modified form proposed below will result in a significant advance in the U.S. Oceanographic Programs...." The panel laid out guiding principles, the foremost of which was "to improve the level and stability of federal support for academic oceanography." Other principles included leaving control of ships programs in the hands of working scientists, building on the ship-operating experience of existing laboratories, enhancing the sharing of facilities among qualified investigators, maintaining mutually agreed upon cooperative arrangements rather than establishing centralized control, maintaining freedom for scientists from any laboratory to work in any geographic area, and involving other federal agencies.
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UNOLS On August 4, 1971, "A Proposal to Establish a University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System" (UNOLS) was completed and then distributed to the academic oceanographic laboratories.
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UNOLS was born. There were 18 initial members: Duke University Florida State University Johns Hopkins University Lamont-Doherty Geological Laboratory of Columbia University Nova University Oregon State University Scripps Institution of Oceanography Skidaway Institute of Oceanography Stanford University Texas A&M University University of Alaska University of Hawaii University of Miami University of Michigan University of Rhode Island University of Southern California University of Washington Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution These 18 institutions operated 33 vessels more than 65feet long (Table 1~.
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University of Alaska Scripps Inst. of Oceanography University of Hawk Oregon State University University of Southern California University of Washington Stanford University Lamont-Doherty Duke University Florida State University Skidaway Institute Johns Hopkins University of Miami Nova University of Rhode Island Texas A&M University Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.
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1996. The University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System: Celebrating 25 Years as the Nation's Premier Oceanographic Research Fleet.
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Subject: A National Oceanographic Laboratory System; a discussion paper.
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