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• The Packard Foundation recently funded a $1,000,000 ocean sciences and engineering 

 endowment to provide seed funds for UCSC researchers to initiate new projects with 

 other institutions around the bay, such as MBARI. 



• We have a cooperative agreement with a small National Biological Service field unit 

 which is located on campus and is focused on marine mammals, primarily sea otters on 

 the west coast. They work collaboratively with our faculty and students for cost sa^/ings 

 and mutual benefit. In exchange for office and lab space, they teach occasional courses 

 and support student research. 



• UCSC has developed a cooperative program with the USGS which involves our 

 operating and sharing their research vessel, collaboration and support of graduate 

 student research, and a plan under review to move a group of USGS coastal scientists to 

 our marine laboratory, on the Sanctuary's rim. 



• We have been working for nearly 5 years to relocate a key groundfish and salmon 

 fisheries group from NMFS to our marine lab, although this has been a very complex and 

 difficult undertaking in these times. 



There are important mutual benefits for federal agencies such as NBS, NMFS, USGS 

 and the University of Califcmia in having collocated facilihes and cooperative 

 agreements, including: 



• shared laboratory facilities, ships and libraries which means significant cost savings 

 in not needing to duplicate facilities 



• a cadre of bright and mohvated graduate and undergraduate students available for 

 research projects for these agencies 



• opportunities for collaborative and symbiotic research. 



I believe that this is an important direction we need to move tovvfards, to get the federal 

 research programs out of the large nahona! centers and into proximity and working in 

 partnerships with university research groups. Woods Hole and Scripps provide some 

 good examples of such a successful collocation. 



This is consistent with the mission of CORE and consistent with the comments made by 

 Dr. Bruce Alberts of the National Academy before you several weeks ago: 



• Federal and academic researchers should improve the cooperative use of facilities and 

 the conduct of joint research. 



• Each agency with an ocean mission should establish permanent mechanisms for 

 ensuring outside scientific advice, review and interaction. 



• The excellent relationships of NSF and ONR with the academic corrununity must be 

 maintained and strengthened. 



• We need stronger partnerships between academic scientists and NOAA, NASA, 

 DOE, USGS. and MMS. This would ensure us of diversity and vitality in the national 

 oceanographic effort. 



There are some very real advantages to the nation of extramural research and agency 

 partnerships with universities which CORE has articulated in a recently Public Policy 

 Position Paper: 



1. Because University research funds are awarded through peer-review, competition 

 ensures that the best science is supported by tax dollars and research duplication is 



