499 



HUMAN. PHYSICAL, AND FISCAL RESOURCES 



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3000 



2500 - 



2000 



1500 



1000 



500 



1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 

 Fiscal Year 



FIGURE 4-21 Budget history of the National Science Foundation and 

 the ocean science component in current and constant 1982 dollars for 

 Fiscal Years 1982-1992. 



counting for 53 percent (in inflation-adjusted dollars) of the entire 

 OSRS growth between fiscal years 1982 and 1992. Biological ocean- 

 ography accounted for 33 percent of the OSRS growth. In con- 

 trast, increases in the chemical oceanography and marine geology 

 and geophysics budgets accounted for much smaller percentages 

 of the OSRS growth, 11 and 6 percent, respectively. However, 

 this relatively slow growth in core program support for MG and G 

 has been offset by a $5 million to $6 million budget per year for 

 drilling-related science that began when ODP was established in 

 the mid-1980s. 



Thus at NSF, 1982-1992 was characterized by slow growth in 

 research support for ocean sciences. Further, the percentage growth 

 occurred mostly in OSRS and can be attributed primarily to in- 

 creased support in physical oceanography and, in fiscal years 1991 

 and 1992, biological oceanography as well. 



Other Basic Sciences Overall, NSF support for most fields of 

 basic scientific research grew relatively slowly from fiscal years 

 1982 to 1992. The three directorates that fund most of NSF's 



