The Ocean's Role in Global Change - Progress of Major Research Programs

The Ocean Studies Board (OSB) report, Oceanography in the Next Decade: Building New Partnerships, highlighted the research programs that contribute to an understanding of the ocean's role in Earth systems. It stressed the importance of developing new partnerships between the federal government and the academic oceanographic community. These partnerships must be based on information transfer among participants. The Ocean Studies Board strived to accomplish this communication and education in the form of brief summaries if the major research programs, first in 1990, and now at the beginning of 1994.

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Provides summaries on the progress of the major oceanographic research programs. This book looks at programs that study processes that occur over periods ranging from days to hundreds of years - the contemporary system, and those that seek to understand long-term variations ranging from thousands to millions of years - the geological perspective.

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• Authors: Environment and Resources Commission on Geosciences, Commission on Geosciences Environment an, Commission on Geosciences Environment and Resources, Division On Earth And Life Studies, National Academy Of Sciences, National Research Council, Natl Research Coun, Ocean Studies Board, National Research C Ocean Studies Board
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1994
• EAN: 9780309050432
• ISBN: 978-0-309-05043-2
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 227 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 159 g
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology