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TI: Developing Geosciences Research Partnerships With Colleagues from SOPAC
AU: * Edsall, D W
EM: edsall@usna.edu
AF: U.S. Naval Academy, Physics Department 313 Ricketts Hall, Annapolis, MD 21402
AB: Members of the AGU have an opportunity to become involved in cooperative research with scientists from the Cook Islands, Fiji, Guam, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Western Samoa as well as Australia and New Zealand. Governmental officials and scientists from the member countries of the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) and its Science Technology and Resources Network (STAR) are looking for individuals, academic and research organizations, foundations, private industry, governmental agencies and professional societies to assist with important research efforts. Involvement would include: promoting; training; funding; equipping, facilitating; coordinating; advising; monitoring; collaborating; interpreting; evaluating and reporting. Studies in all onshore, coastal and offshore environments are needed. Topics include: development of natural resources; reduction of environmental vulnerability; support of sustainable development; development of potable water supplies; protecting coral reef environments; and basic investigations of local weather, climatology, biology, geology, geophysics and oceanography. This paper addresses ways to create such research partnerships.
DE: 1699 General or miscellaneous
DE: 1884 Water supply
DE: 3099 General or miscellaneous
DE: 4857 Pollution
DE: 9355 Pacific Ocean
SC: U
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting