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10th April 2006, 08:37 AM
We request your help in publicizing the letter attached below to fellow faculty and staff members and students. Researchers are encouraged to go to the web site, read the letter and add their names to the list of signatories. Our letter to the co-chairs of the Decadal Survey will be greatly strengthened if we have significant international support.
Please feel free to forward this "help" request to anyone you don't see on my email distribution list.
Thank you for your consideration, help, and support. Do not hesitate to contact us should you require any additional information.
- Dudley and Mike
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As many of you are aware, a committee of the National Research Council has been developing a prioritized list of future U.S. Earth-observing satellite missions for research and operational applications over the next decade. The recommendations of this Decadal Survey will greatly influence the future plans of NASA and NOAA. The Survey is nearing the end of its deliberations; the next meeting of the Executive Committee of the Decadal Survey is May 2-4. After this, it will be difficult to make any major changes in the recommendations of the Survey.
The oceanographic community has not provided effective input to date, and ocean satellites are not faring well in the Survey’s current draft recommendations. Since the lack of future satellite observations of the oceans would affect such a broad cross section of Earth science research, we believe that the most effective approach is to communicate our concerns in the form of a community letter to Richard Anthes and Berrien Moore, the co-chairs of the Survey.
With considerable help from many colleagues, we have drafted an Oceans Community Letter, which can be found at http://cioss.coas.oregonstate.edu/CIOSS/letter.html. We urge you to read this letter and add your name to the list of signatories. Please forward this message to colleagues who may not have been included in our email distribution lists.
We encourage participation from the entire Oceans Community. When sent to the Co-Chairs of the Decadal Survey, the signatories will be categorized according to their affiliation as U.S. Academic Scientists, NASA or NOAA Scientists, Non-U.S. Scientists, or Other interested parties.
Thank you in advance for your help with this important effort.
Sincerely,
Dudley Chelton and Michael Freilich
Please feel free to forward this "help" request to anyone you don't see on my email distribution list.
Thank you for your consideration, help, and support. Do not hesitate to contact us should you require any additional information.
- Dudley and Mike
__________________________________________________ _______
As many of you are aware, a committee of the National Research Council has been developing a prioritized list of future U.S. Earth-observing satellite missions for research and operational applications over the next decade. The recommendations of this Decadal Survey will greatly influence the future plans of NASA and NOAA. The Survey is nearing the end of its deliberations; the next meeting of the Executive Committee of the Decadal Survey is May 2-4. After this, it will be difficult to make any major changes in the recommendations of the Survey.
The oceanographic community has not provided effective input to date, and ocean satellites are not faring well in the Survey’s current draft recommendations. Since the lack of future satellite observations of the oceans would affect such a broad cross section of Earth science research, we believe that the most effective approach is to communicate our concerns in the form of a community letter to Richard Anthes and Berrien Moore, the co-chairs of the Survey.
With considerable help from many colleagues, we have drafted an Oceans Community Letter, which can be found at http://cioss.coas.oregonstate.edu/CIOSS/letter.html. We urge you to read this letter and add your name to the list of signatories. Please forward this message to colleagues who may not have been included in our email distribution lists.
We encourage participation from the entire Oceans Community. When sent to the Co-Chairs of the Decadal Survey, the signatories will be categorized according to their affiliation as U.S. Academic Scientists, NASA or NOAA Scientists, Non-U.S. Scientists, or Other interested parties.
Thank you in advance for your help with this important effort.
Sincerely,
Dudley Chelton and Michael Freilich