COORDINATION WITH OTHER 

 AGENCIES AND GOVERNMENTS 



Interagency Collaboration 



DOE coordinates its marine program with other 

 agencies at both the Headquarters and regional levels. 

 At Headquarters, the program is integrated into the 

 U.S. Global Ocean Science Program (GOSP) as part 

 of the Ocean Margins task outlined in the GOSP 1987 

 report. It is similarly part of the global change crosscut 

 being developed by the Committee on Earth Sciences 

 and chaired by the Office of Science and Technology 

 Policy. The crosscut will provide an overall picture of 

 Federal activities in global change. 



DOE's Coastal Ocean Margins Program 

 provides key research on the input and interaction of 

 continental margins with the open ocean system in the 

 Western and Eastern Coastal regions of the U.S.; this 

 information is provided to the National Science Foun- 

 dation (NSF) in connection with the Global Ocean 

 Flux Study (GOFS). Other interagency collaboration 

 includes the Federal Plan for Ocean Pollution chaired 

 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad- 

 ministration (NOAA) and the Panel for International 

 Programs and Intergovernmental Cooperation in 

 Ocean Affairs chaired by the Department of State. 



Active research scientists and program 

 managers at NSF, NOAA, Office of Naval Research, 

 and the National Aeronautics and Space Administra- 

 tion have participated in panel reviews of regional 

 DOE studies; this has provided close coordination and 



research opportunities between the DOE program 

 and those of other agencies. In the field, scientists 

 funded by other agencies have been drawn to the 

 nucleus of the three regional DOE multidisciplinary 

 studies; this has been of mutual benefit to all con- 

 cerned because of the resulting expanded and com- 

 prehensive data base. Besides researchers funded by 

 the aforementioned agencies, scientists working for or 

 supported by the U.S. Geological Survey, Department 

 of the Interior/Minerals Management Service, 

 Environmental Protection Agency, State of California, 

 and Canadian Government have interacted with-and 

 subsequently broadened the scope of-the DOE Coas- 

 tal Ocean Margins Program. 



International Collaboration 



To determine cross-shelf transport in the East- 

 ern Atlantic Ocean, the Western Mediterranean Sea, 

 and off the coast of Mauritania underlying the Sahara 

 Dust Plume, Spain, France, and Israel have invited col- 

 laboration and exchange with scientists in DOE's 

 Coastal Ocean Margins Program. 



Similarly, an active exchange program is in place 

 for Japanese scientists and U.S. researchers to com- 

 pare the dynamics of the Kuroshio Current and the 

 continental shelf of Japan with the Gulf Stream inter- 

 action and the U.S. continental margin. This will con- 

 tribute to the development of global understanding of 

 the dynamics of such currents with the ocean margins. 



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