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Fifty Years of Ocean Discovery
Pages 210-211

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From page 210...
... ONR retains the leadership role in some areas areas such as ocean acoustics that are critical to our national security needs but NSF has assumed responsibility for other areas of broader national importance such as global climate change research and polar science. This is as it should be for siblings who are responsible for the overall health of the research field.
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From page 211...
... Together, we have made a significant impact on ocean sciences. For example, long-term investments in the studies of ocean thermal, chemical, and acoustical properties, and bottom topography ultimately helped submariners process and assess the many noise sources in the sea, and enabled them to discriminate undersea threats.
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  • ice expeditions
  • ocean dynamics
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  • own mark
  • undertaken significant
  • ocean responds
  • major supporter
  • coastal erosion

  • daniel tsui
  • national ocean
  • proven critical
  • nobel laureates
  • polar science

  • professor daniel
  • address leading
  • robust basic
  • national assets
  • joe bordogna

  • overall economic
  • undersea threats
  • supporting basic
  • ocean structure
  • ocean discovery


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