OCS Scientific Committee
1999 Meeting Summary - National Oceanographic Partnership
Program Presentation
Dr.
Steve Ramberg, Chair of the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) Interagency
Working Group, gave an update on NOPP activities. The NOPP was established by Congress in
1997 to foster interagency cooperation in ocean research by supporting programs that
emphasize partnering by academia, industry and government. Since then, its programs have
grown to about $66M invested in basic and early applied research on topics that are
well-suited to collective agency attention and multi-partnering at performance. Over 110
partners from industry (33), academia (53), government (25) and non-profit institutions
(14) are involved in the funded programs to date, bringing approximately $50M in
cost-shared resources. Examples include instrumentation developments, natural
laboratories, community-based modeling and data assimilation efforts, education, and more
recently a framework for a US integrated ocean observation and prediction system serving
the full range of US ocean research and application interests. More information can be
found starting at the website http://www.nopp.org.
For more information, contact Julie Reynolds.
