Input from the Community

Below are questions central to OEUVRE. One approach to them, designed by the Steering Committee, is outlined in the proposed white papers. Please take a moment to review our outline, if only as a means to stimulate your own, entirely different approach. We are especially anxious and eager to obtain suggestions that you believe our approach and the necessarily limited number of workshop participants might miss. As the white papers are posted and revised, we also are eager to hear your responses, whether they note concurrence, omission or disagreement. Unless you specifically request otherwise, your input will be included among the posted responses. In addition, please indicate whether you wish the posting to be anonymous. Your volunteered inputs to this web site and your individual discussions with workshop participants before March 1988, together with the invited white papers, will be the primary materials used to design the structure of the OEUVRE workshop and produce its written reports. Inputs after the end of February will be used to modify those written reports. You may use the identifying numbers (1-4) below to let us know which question(s) you are addressing. If you choose the last category (4), please take care to identify the issue that you are addressing. Unless you narrow your response explicitly, we will assume that biological oceanography includes all ecological work in marine and estuarine realms (field, laboratory and theory) and extends beyond both NSF funding and national borders. For similar reasons we also solicit input from the international community.

1. What do you regard as the most important achievements in biological oceanography in the last three decades and why?

2. What are the major opportunities open to biological oceanography in the next two decades and what challenges need to be overcome to realize those opportunities?

3. What infrastructure must be developed to meet these challenges? Consider kind and amount of training, access to single-PI and multi-user facilities, integration with or needed inputs from other disciplines, and any other potential bottleneck.

4. What other comments do you have regarding means that might advance the rate at which understanding is achieved in biological oceanography?

NOTE: Please send your comments and input to Ms. Cathy Clark of UCAR-JOSS.

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