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The Importance of Ocean Sciences to Society
The Importance of Ocean Sciences to Society
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The United States will have focused incredible resources during the last 50 years of this century the precise period of scientific accomplishments by NSF that we celebrate at this symposium on exciting space exploration looking outward toward the frontier of the "Big Bang." As we turn the corner into the next millennium, I sincerely hope we can also energize the American public and our national leadership to look, more thoroughly, inward toward Earth's last frontier, the oceans, to help solve the countless growing challenges to humankind, investing the necessary resources to significantly enhance our knowledge of the greatest natural resource on Earth that may house answers to these challenges. To energize the public and elected officials, we will need new vision, new strategies, much better scientist-tocitizen communication techniques, and much more aggressive follow-through on the part of our scientific community and other stakeholders to carry out the strategy.
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We have recently recognized the sales potential in sectors such as coastal zone management, hazard mitigation, agriculture, and public health. Let's design a stronger plan for product delivery of our ocean research and not get too heavily bogged down arguing the merits of basic research versus application.
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(NRC, 1998) I will close by saying that when the NSF holds its 100th Anniversary Celebration and I understand that John OCEAN SCIENCES TODAY AND TOMORROW Knauss has already accepted NSF' s invitation to give its keynote address it is my fond hope that they will look back to the turn of the millennium and say "thanks to those scientific visionaries 50 years ago who set a new and visionary course for ocean science and technology that added such incredible value to the United States and the world." REFERENCES National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
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