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Technology Development for Ocean Sciences at NSF
Pages 128-134

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From page 128...
... The mechanisms through which OCE provides technological capabilities and develops new ones have evolved as the field has matured. OCE has effectively met community requirements for supporting facilities and projects necessary to advance the field.
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From page 129...
... The mechanisms through which OCE provides technological capabilities and develops new ones has evolved as the field has matured. 129 TECHNOLOGY VIA SUPPORT FOR MAJOR FACI LITI ES Central to almost all oceanographic research endeavors in all disciplines is the research vessel.
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From page 130...
... At the very first UNOLS meeting in November 1971, the issue of providing technological assistance to science projects using UNOLS research vessels was identified as a matter that needed addressing. The NSF model of separating ship and facility operations from science support enabled the Office of Facilities Support to tackle the technology provision issue by establishing two new programs: the Shipboard Technician Program and the Oceanographic Instrumentation Program.
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From page 131...
... The end result is the National Ocean Sciences Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (NOSAMS) Facility at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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From page 132...
... Funding pressures and the conservative nature of the peer-review process required that NSF-sponsored technology development for basic ocean research either be essential for the accomplishment of the highest-rated research projects or be done at no cost to NSF. Given these somewhat subjective observations, an experimental program area was established in fiscal year 1982 to consider proposals for developing new instrumentation and new technological capabilities that would have broad applicability.
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... 1981. Technology and Oceanography: An Assessment of Federal Technologies for Oceanographic Research and Monitoring.
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