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Islanders this week with the terrible environmental tragedy of last Friday's 

 grounding of the North Cape oil barge. 



Educational Resources 



As is the case forother major industries in the US like health and 

 agriculture, marine-related industry and business has fostered strong links with 

 our nations' higher educational institutions and the interdependence of the two is 

 the key to our economic well-being as well as our marine military advantage. 



The intense love for and scrutiny of our coastal and maritime resources on 

 the part of the American public is reflected in the interest in marine education at 

 every institution that offers it. At the University of Rhode Island, 10% of entering 

 undergraduates wish to major in subjects that will allow them to work in marine- 

 related service, business and industry 



WHAT KIND OF PARTNERSHIPS ARE IN PLACE OR SHOULD BE? 

 What is a partnership? 



At the heart of this discussion is our agreement that we need to and will 

 work in a new way in the future - in partnerships. Key elements of partnerships 

 are that partners plan together, they execute work together, and they evaluate the 

 results of their mutual work together. Subcontracts and consulting are not 

 partnerships. We have a long tradition in environmental sciences of such 

 partnerships. Traditionally the most effective partnerships between the 

 academic environmental community and federal agencies have been joint 

 research institutes at Universities or federal agencies (NOAA Joint Institutes) or 

 jointly operated research partnerships such as the agricultural land-grant and 

 SeaGrant models. 



Uruversity partnerships with state government are common and there are 

 many effective examples. In Rhode Island the Coastal Resources Management 

 Council began with a Uruversity of Rhode Island partnership to establish the 

 basis for coastal policy and for policy implementation. 



Our partnerships in the marine field have not traditionally included the 

 private sector, but this is critical now. At the University of Rhode Islzmd, we 

 believe that we have pioneered an important new structure in which marine 

 industries can interact with the University. It is called the Ocean Technology 

 Center and will be discussed in more detail by Dr. Jeffrey Callahan, its director. 

 This partnership between the University, the business community, federal 

 mission agencies ajid the National Science Foundation, provides an effective 

 mechanism for academic research to be planned together with private business. 

 In addition, this structure has provided a framework attractive to additional 

 investment by the Department of Commerce through an Economic Development 

 Administration grant and to investment by the State of Rhode Island in 

 establishing the center as a broader center of excellence in marine economic 

 development. 



