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bility to provide timely and relevant 

 information to collaborators, policy 

 maken, and the general public through 

 increased emphasis on information 

 dispersal. It has a staff 140 and an 

 annual budget of about $ 14 million. 



The emphasis of research program 

 efforts will be on the components 

 that will benefit most from the en- 

 hanced collaboration opportunities 

 with researchers at UC/ Santa Cruz 

 and elsewhere in the Monterey Bay 

 area. Major research topics are ex- 

 pected to include the Monterey Bay 

 National Marine Sanctuary and ad- 

 joining regions: neotectonics, deforma- 

 tion, and associated geologic hazards 

 of central California; and coastal and 

 seafloor erosion and sediment and 

 contaminant transport. 



Oiled Wildlife Rescue and Rehabili- 

 tation Facility, California Department 

 of Fish and Game. In 1 99 1, the Office 

 of Oil Spill Prevention and Response 

 was created within the Department 

 of Fish and Game to respond to and 

 prevent oil spills in California's coastal 

 waters. The program was required to 

 plan and construct a response/ rehabil- 

 itation facility to rescue and rehabili- 

 tate marine mammals and birds (prin- 

 cipally the endangered California sea 

 otter) in the event of a large spill on 

 the central coast. This facility has 

 been designed and will be constructed 

 in 1995/1996 at the University of 

 California's Long Marine Laboratory. 

 The facility plans include laboratories 

 and outdoor tanks to provide a com- 

 prehensive response system for clean- 

 ing and rehabilitating oiled sea otters 

 and marine birds. During non-oil 

 spill periods, the laboratories and 

 mammal pools will be used for joint 

 University of Calii'ornia/ state marine 

 to.xicology research. It has a staff of 

 five and an annual hudget of about 

 5500,000. 



Moss Landing Marine Laboratories 

 was established in 1966 as a marine 

 research and educational facility oper- 

 ated by a consortium of six campuses 

 of the California State University 

 System. Course work is o,''fered to 

 qualified upper division undergrad- 

 uate and graduate students in the 

 marine areas of ecology, ichthyology, 

 birds and mammals, invertebrates, 

 phycology, and physical, chemical, 

 biological, and geological oceanog- 

 raphy with extensive field and labora- 

 tory experience. Faculty and student 

 research is incorporated within the 

 marine areas of habitat, geology, 

 physical oceanography, biology and 



chemistry, pollution, and ecology. 

 Researchers, graduate students, and 

 staff number about 140. The annual 

 budget is about S6.2 million. 



The Elkhorn Slough National Es- 

 tuarine Research Reserve program 

 provides information and models on 

 how to best manage the nation's es- 

 tuaries. It focuses on ecology, biology, 

 estuarine management, and restora- 

 tion. The 1,400-acre Elkhorn Slough 

 National Marine Reserve, the first 

 established in California (1978) is 

 now one of 22 nationwide. The reserve 

 and the non-profit Elkhorn Slough 

 Foundation at Moss Landing help to 

 protect and manage one of the few 

 relatively undisturbed coastal wet- 

 lands remaining in California. Main- 

 taining strong ties with local scientists, 

 the staff of 1 2 with a budget of about 

 $600,000 provides research opportuni- 

 ties for students and interns from 

 other institutions. 



Hopkins Marine Station, establish- 

 ed in 1891, is the oldest marine sta- 

 tion on the West Coast and second 

 oldest in the nation. A teaching and 

 research facility, it functions as a 

 branchoft.he Department of Biologi- 

 cal Sciences of Stanford University. 

 The focus of research and teaching is 

 on the biology of marine organisms, 

 specifically the interactions between 

 organisms and their environment, 

 with an increasing emphasis on mole- 

 cular marine biology. Students may 

 work towards master's or doctorate 

 degrees in a multitude of specializa- 

 tions. The staff including researchers 

 and graduate students number 58. 

 The annual budget is about S3. 2 

 million. 



The Monterey Bay Aquarium at- 

 tracts well over a million and a half 

 visitors annually. The mission of its 

 research division is to contribute to 

 the knowledge of the biology and 

 husbandry of Monterey Bay's orga- 

 nisms through a program of basic 

 and applied research especially in 

 regard to organisms relevant to the 

 aquarium's exhibit program. The ex- 

 hibit program includes biology and 

 social organization of the California 

 sea otter and biology of deep-sea and 

 open ocean organisms. It promotes 

 interactions with neighboring aca- 

 demic and scientific institutions and 

 provides research opportunities for 

 visiting investigators. The aquarium 

 has a staff including researchen of 

 350 and about a S25. 8 million annual 

 budget. 

 Monterey Bay Aquarium Research 



Institute focuses on technology en- 

 abled ocean science, deep-sea geology 

 and geochemistry, biology and micro- 

 biology, upper ocean physics and 

 biogeochemistry, instrument and sen- 

 sor development, and underwater ve- 

 hicle technologies. MBARI's ROV 

 Ventana and support ship R/ V Point 

 Lobos were core elements in leading 

 to exceptional deep-ocean observing 

 and experimental capabilities and 

 important advances in telemetry and 

 systems development. (M BA R! trans- 

 mits live broadcasts from the RO'v' to 

 the Monterey Bay Aquarium.) Re- 

 search activities include advances in 

 buoy technology through development 

 of controllers and sensors, undersea 

 robotics, chemical micro-sensor tech- 

 nology for long-term acquisition of 

 chemical signals, and advanced scien- 

 tific information management. 



MBARI has under construction 

 an advanced, ocean-capable SWATH 

 (small watcrplane area twin hull) ves- 

 sel with 24 berths. The ship will sup- 

 port an advanced 4,000-meter-capable 

 ROV. Also laboratory construction 

 in Moss Landing will be complete in 

 1995. 



It established post-doctoral fellow- 

 ship as well as collaborative research 

 p.''ograms in science and engineering. 



Principal suppon of MBARI is 

 from the David and Lucile Packard 

 Foundation. Total staff numbers 91 

 and the annua! budget is about SI 1.4 

 million. 



The departments of oceanography 

 and meteorology of the Naval Post- 

 graduate School (Monterey) provide 

 master's and doctorate degrees for 

 military officers — more than 4,000 

 postgraduate degrees since the estab- 

 lishment of these programs in 1968 

 and 1946, respectively. The overall 

 research goal of the Department of 

 Oceanography — improving ocean pre- 

 diction — is pursued through four sub- 

 ject areas: acoustical oceanography, 

 coastal and near-shore oceanography, 

 ocean modeling, and air/sea inter- 

 action. Meteorology research at the 

 school is focused on numerical weather 

 prediction, geophysical fluid dynam- 

 ics, analysis of atmospheric systems, 

 tropical meteorology, boundary layer 

 meteorology, and remote sensing. 

 There are 136 researchers, graduate 

 students, and staff. The annual budget 

 is about S4 million. 



NOAA's Ocean Applications Branch 

 of the National Ocean Service was 

 established at Monterey in 1985 as a 

 national center for the development. 



