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Department of Commerce, 1992~. Population pressures have led to the drainage of wetlands and loss of habitat, increased the levels and transport 1Wilbert McLeod Chapman, California's top fishery officer in 1949, in reference to the initiation of the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations, a regional fisheries research initiative (Scheiber, 1990)
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Resolution of these types of problems requires regional approaches to provide coordination across jurisdictional boundaries to address the larger scale scientific concerns of interest to government agencies, academia, public interests, and industry. Recognition of the regional nature of marine and coastal ecosystem processes has increased the focus on the need for regionally organized research programs.
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EVALUATION OF REGIONAL MARINE RESEARCH PROGRAMS The committee examined several models for regional marine research and evaluated their performance to identify effective components of past or existing programs that should be integrated into future regional programs. The scope of this study was insufficient to examine all regional marine programs; but at the request of the sponsors, the committee used two NOAA programs as case studies:
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The GOM-RMRP is an example of a nationally mandated, regionally organized, and regionally implemented research program run through the state Sea Grant offices, whereas NECOP is an example of a regionally implemented program organized at the national level through the COP of NOAA. Gulf of Maine Regional Marine Research Program The RMRP legislation emphasized the involvement of scientists and resource managers in setting research priorities and in coordinating regional monitoring and research.
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This monitoring program provided the larger-scale observational framework needed to discern the influence of human activities from interannual environmental variability. KEY ELEMENTS OF REGIONAL MARINE RESEARCH This report describes the key elements of an effective program for regional marine research based on the committee' s review of several regional programs.
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Sustained research and monitoring will provide the context and organizational structure for a rapid and coordinated response to unanticipated events and will support adaptive management strategies through assessment of the effectiveness of environmental policies and development of alternative approaches. Developing Programs for Regional Research Regional marine research initiatives are most successful when they combine bottom-up and top-down approaches to program development and implementa
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Consequently, proponents of regional marine research need to articulate the benefits of regional approaches and develop sustained public and political support. Regional research typically requires substantial effort to coordinate programs and funds to support long-term projects across large areas.
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The federal agency with the broadest mandate for marine environmental research is NOAA; hence NOAA should provide the leadership necessary to develop regional marine research efforts of the type recommended in this report. Although many NOAA programs currently have a coastal component, no one office is an obvious choice for implementing a plan for regional research.
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