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Ocean Sciences at the National Sciences Foundation: An Administrative History
Ocean Sciences at the National Sciences Foundation: An Administrative History
Pages 96-106
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The Ocean Sciences Research Section supports research projects large and small in physical, biological, and chemical oceanography; marine geology and geophysics; and oceanographic technology. The Oceanographic Centers and Facilities Section manages NSF support for research ship operations and construction, specialized facilities operations, the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
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One subset of the ocean sciences did find a receptive home in NSF. The MPE Division's Earth Sciences Program handled proposals in geology, geophysics, and geochemistry.
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THE 1960S: NSF OCEAN RESEARCH IN THE WAKE OFTHEIGY The impact of the IGY experience extended into NSF's traditional research support structure for "small science." Despite the finite limits of the IGY itself, its field programs produced new ideas and generated data that resulted in research proposals long afterward. NSF's role in the IGY made it the natural recipient of proposals of this sort.
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Given the lack of focused NSF programs in ocean science and the chronic problems of paying for ship time for researchers, it is surprising to find that proposals for ship construction found support at NSF in this era. In fact, NSF funded the construction of three oceanographic research ships and the conversion of several others during the early 1960s.
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The Mohole Project Office was attached to the Office of the NSF Director, but because of the huge budget and administrative implications of the contract, the coordinator actually reported to NSF's Associate Director for Administration. Scientific guidance was to come from the Academy, with a NSF program officer from Earth Sciences acting as Science Coordinator in-house.
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Sea Grant included components that cut across every line organization in NSF education, basic and applied research, institutional support, and public outreach. In earlier times, NSF would have created a special management office reporting to the NSF Director.
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The latter, however, would be transferred to NOAA just a few months later. Responsibilities for oceanographic facilities were also transferred from AD/R, and AD/NJ was given the additional duty of Special Project Officer for NOLS the National Oceanographic Laboratory System the emerging fleet coordinating entity.
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Facilities Programs: OFS and UNOLS Evolve Together The establishment of the Office for Oceanographic Facilities and Support (OFS) and the creation of the University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS)
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A fourth option was to end ocean drilling altogether. That last view had few adherents in the ocean science community, but was seriously considered by NSF management, Congress, and the Administration.
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JOI selected Texas A&M University as its primary subcontractor for the Ocean Drilling Program, and the conversion of a large commercial drillship, eventually renamed JOIDES Resolution, was soon underway. NSF tried a series of organizational changes to deal with the tumultuous arguments over the fate of ocean drilling.
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Today's unified Division of Ocean Sciences, encompassing all fields of project research, large and small, facilities programs, and the Ocean Drilling Program, is thus the product of a long and sometimes difficult administrative evolution. Similarly, the co-location of the environmental sciences in the Geosciences Directorate was a long time in coming.
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