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Environmental Stewardship Mission
Crosscutting Initiatives
National Oceanographic Partnership Program
Natural Disaster Reduction Initiative
Clean Water Initiative
South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Initiative
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Reducing Costs and Improving Effectiveness
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National Oceanographic Partnership Program
The National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) was established
by the 104th Congress to ensure well-coordinated interagency efforts supporting
ocean science and education. NOPP is a formal, collaborative mechanism supporting
new partnerships to share resources, intellectual talent, and facilities
among Federal, academic, and private sectors to address the common needs
of the participating agencies. NOPP agencies include Navy, DOC/NOAA, NSF,
NASA, DOE, EPA, DOI/MMS, DOI/USGS, and DOT/USCG.
NOAA's FY 1999 request includes a $2.0 million increase to support specific
research and development efforts that are critical to NOAA's mission and
will clearly benefit from the NOPP partnership. The increase will support
research portions of two partnership efforts: (1) Understand and predict
the occurrence and impacts of harmful algal blooms building on initial efforts
stimulated by NOAA, NSF, and EPA in FY 1997; and (2) Predict and assess
the impacts of growing hypoxic "dead zones" on coastal resources
of the Gulf of Mexico. This research will allow significant progress in
preventing and controlling the spread and impacts of nonindigenous species
through work with state, local, academic and industry partners. The NOPP
research partnerships will improve our understanding of important coastal
and ocean systems and provide government and non-government managers with
accurate and timely predictions of coastal and ocean resource conditions. |