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CONGRESSIONAL FIELD BRIEFING: REGIONAL OFFORTUNnTES IN LEVERAGING 

 OCEANOGRAPmC RESEARCH FOR DEFENSE AND NON-DEFENSE INDUSTRIES 

 ANDACnvmES 



February 12, 1996 



Distinguished Members of Congress 



My name is James Kennett and I am a Professor of Oceanography in the Department of 

 Geological Sciences and Director of the Marine Science Institute at the University of 

 California Santa Barbara (UCSB). I am pleased to testify in this west coast field hearing 

 concerning the future of marine science research. As a member of the local community, I 

 welcome Committee Members and Wimesses to our area. Much of our local economy and 

 quality of life is related to the proximity of the ocean, and reflects the community's desire to 

 manage this asset in a scientifically and socially responsible way. UCSB has a large and 

 very active marine research and teaching program which is fitting for a University campus 

 which is the only full-spectrum university in the United States that is located on the open- 

 ocean. We are also linked through consortia and other mechanisms with extensive marine 

 science programs conducted on a number of the campuses of the University of California 

 (including Soripps Institution of Oceanography), which surely must make ihe University of 

 Ccdifomia the largest academic marine science and teaching enterprise in the world. There 

 are other important connections. UCSB is pleased to be a member of the Consortiimi for 

 Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE), which is a broad and Icirge partnership of 

 this nation's academic marine programs and is beginning to play a major leadership role in 

 marine sciences in this nation. In fact I am happy to report that UCSB is a member of the 

 first regional group to join CORE in coop>eration with UCLA, UC Irvine and UC Santa 

 Cruz. Our research programs here at UCSB range through a broad spectnmi of marine 

 science but I shall be able to mention only a few. Additional information about our 

 program is provided separately. 



University faculty know that research and teaching are closely intertwined. To attain the 

 best results, students must experience a superior, stimulating and exciting intellectual 

 environment. It has been stated that, "the university lives on the research of its faculty and 

 the learning of its young. The university looks to the future, cares for the future, works for 

 the future. By counterpoising the experience and fatigue of its Acuity against the energy 

 and innocence of its students, it almost invisibly reshapes the republic in the minds and 

 hearts of the young." Research prospers at imiversities because, not in spite, of its 

 educational role. 



Our teaching program in marine science at UCSB involves large numbers of undergraduate 

 and graduate students and is connected with a strong and diverse marine science research 



