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synergism - education, research and operations. 



On the education side, the Naval Postgraduate School's Meteorology and 

 Oceanography Departments go back to the early 1950s. Fleet Numerical first 

 located in Monterey in 1959 to take advantage of the school's scientific talent 

 and its ownership of one of the earliest second-generation mainframe 

 computers. Today, we not only have strong ties with the meteorology and 

 oceanography departments, but with computer science, information 

 technology and operations studies departments as well. Other Marine Science 

 graduate programs have been developed in the Monterey Bay area under the 

 auspices of Stanford and San Jose State Universities, and the University of 

 California at Santa Cruz. Today, a new educational institution, the California 

 State University at Monterey Bay, is being built from the ground up as a 21st 

 , century campus on the former Fort Ord Army Post. This new university will 

 feature major programs in oceanography and meteorology. It opened in 

 August 1995, and enrollment is expected to approach 25,000 students in the 

 next century. 



On the research side, the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)'s Marine 

 Meteorology Division moved to Monterey from Norfolk, VA in 1971 to 

 collocate with Fleet Numerical and the Naval Postgraduate School. This 

 division of NRL is responsible for developing the computer-generated 

 atmospheric and coupled air-ocean predictions which are then implemented 

 operationally at Fleet Numerical. The division's collocation with Fleet 

 Numerical significantly streamlines the process of transitioning these 

 computer programs from a science and technology to an operational 

 environment, and facilitates the correction of any science shortcomings and/or 

 software errors once operational. 



