Program Update: Advocacy – November 2011
Budget negotiations continued on Capitol Hill throughout the month of November with mixed success. Although the Deficit Reduction Supercommittee halted work on November 21 after failing to reach an agreement identifying the required $1.2 trillion in budgetary savings, an appropriations measure to fund major science agencies for Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 was passed by Congress and signed into law by the President this month.
Program Update: National Ocean Sciences Bowl – November 2011
This month, Kathleen Meehan Coop spoke at the Breakfast Series of the Washington, D.C. section of the Marine Technology Society (MTS) on her role as the Director for the National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB).
Program Update: Deep Earth Academy – November 2011
In November, Deep Earth Academy, the U.S. education arm of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), was awarded a planning grant from NSF entitled, “Bringing Cutting Edge Scientific Ocean Drilling Research on Past Climate Change into Minority-Serving Institution Geoscience Classrooms.”
Program Update: Ocean Observatories Initiative – November 2011
The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) program in November continued progress testing and procuring critical components of the OOI and providing updated information on instruments and other aspects of the program to the community that ultimately will use the OOI and its data.
Program Update: National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP & ORAP) – November 2011
During the month of November, the Interagency Working Group on Facilities and Infrastructure (IWG-FI), the Interagency Working Group on Ocean Partnerships (IWG-OP), the IWG-FI Task Force on Unmanned Systems (TFUS), and the full Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology (SOST) all held meetings.
Program Update: Interagency Ocean Observation Committee – November 2011
Registration is now open for the next Interagency Ocean Observation Committee (IOOC) stakeholder workshop, Pacific Northwest Waters: Gateway to Our Future, scheduled for February 2, 2012.
Program Update: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program – November 2011
Representatives of the National Science Foundation (NSF), MEXT, and ECORD met this month to hammer out a framework for the next phase of scientific ocean drilling: the “International Ocean Discovery Program” (2013-2023).
Program Update: Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative – November 2011
During the upcoming Summit 2011: State of the Gulf of Mexico, which will be held from December 4-8, 2011 in Houston, Texas, representatives from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) will participate in a hour long session focused on the GoMRI.
Program Update: Advocacy – October 2011
Determining FY12 appropriations levels before the expiration of the current stopgap funding on November 18 was a prominent item on the Congressional agenda during the month of October.
Program Update: Deep Earth Academy – October 2011
Deep Earth Academy, the U.S. education arm of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), launched a traveling exhibit about the JOIDES Resolution at the North Museum in Lancaster, Pennsylvania this month.
Program Update: National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP & ORAP) – October 2011
At the October meeting, the Interagency Working Group on Ocean Partnerships elected a new Co-Chair, Dr. Rodney Cluck from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
Program Update: National Ocean Sciences Bowl – October 2011
In October, the National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB) held the annual Technical Advisory Panels (TAPs), which review and edit the upcoming year’s competition questions.
