| Autor: |
Sarah Smith, Robert H. Weisberg, Russ Lea, Harvey E. Seim, James R. Nelson, Madilyn Fletcher, Lundie Spence, Francisco E. Werner, Christopher N. K. Mooers |
| Rok vydání: |
2008 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Marine Technology Society Journal. 42:17-27 |
| ISSN: |
0025-3324 |
| DOI: |
10.4031/002533208786842499 |
| Popis: |
A B S T R A C T The management of the SEACOOS program and its evolution over a five-year period are reviewed. The topics included pertain to the mechanisms used to create a consortium, define its mission, develop and manage its annual budget and tasking cycle; and the history of its focus over a five-year period. The management of SEACOOS was complex and required significant efforts to develop new approaches and collaborative mechanisms. Changes in management were made as weaknesses were identified and to enable a more unified ap proach to the evaluation, operations, data management and outreach efforts. A number of programmatic lessons learned are summarized that may be of value for future development of regional coastal ocean observing systems. of SEACOOS and its evolution over time are described. Another significant regional coastal ocean observing effort underway when SEACOOS began was the Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS, www.gomoos.org, Bogden and Richert, 2003). Good communication was established between the SEACOOS and GoMOOS programs, with strong collaboration on data management, but their program management approaches were quite different. GoMOOS had incorporated as a not-for-profit organization. It was focused on establishing and marketing a buoy-based observing program and viewed itself as a utility. GoMOOS also drew upon a history of regional collaboration that had not been established in the considerably larger four-state SEACOOS domain. Thus, the initial focus for SEACOOS was to foster collaboration between a number of existing sub-regional observing efforts. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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