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national interests, were used as a defining structure for this effort. The themes 

 were: 



1. National Security - Ensuring that national interests are guaranteed 

 at honie and abroad and that basic and applied ocean science 

 remains an essential element of this assurance. Tnis category is 

 meant to include issues associated with preservation of our 

 national interests, via military defense, and foreign policy support. 



2. Economic Development - Use of the basic and applied knowledge 

 of the ocean and its resources for economic gain, including 

 attention to marine resources, transportation, recreation, and 

 development, and related industries. 



3. Quality of Life - Health and social well-being of people as derived 

 from using basic and applied knowledge of the ocean. Subject 

 material includes the topics of preservation/improvement/ 

 stewardship of the environment (pollution prevention, cleanup 

 and remediation), shoreline protection, coastal hazard mitigation 

 and recreation. 



4. Communication /Education - Conveying an understanding of the 

 importance of oceans to national decision making, to the public at 

 large, and to decision makers and educators at every level using 

 basic and applied knowledge of the oceans, to include the 

 exploitation of state of the art electronic networking and computer 

 based simulations/demonstrations. 



The results of this exercise are publicly introduced at this hearing in the report 

 "Oceans 2000: Bridging the Millennia - Partnerships for Stakeholders in the Oceans." 

 The report identifies a broad realm of research opportionities defined by the diversity 

 of issues embedded in the subjects of quality of life, economic development, 

 education/communicahon and national security, it is quite noteworthy that for the 

 purposes of defining partnerships, several consistent themes emerged which are 

 discussed in the report. The pervasive nature of these themes lends strong 

 credibility to the partnership approach; there is an implication that a partnership 

 developed to address a problem in one area will provide collateral benefits to other 

 applications. 

 Finally, the report identifies a set of hurdles to the establishment of an effective and 



