Departmental Concerns and Needs

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DepartmentalConcerns and Needs
Research, Education and Public Outreach
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Research NeedsOn-campus research facilities

• Labs with hoods and office space -- for existing
  and new faculty / postdocs
• Student staff shop
• Frozen and refrigerated storage on campus
• Running seawater facilities
• Small boats for near-coastal research
• MSB roof repairs

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MSB Roof Leakage As of 12/07/07

• MSB Ground Floor hallway between elevators and
  shop
• MSB 224 GES Computer room (4th leak)
• MSB 304 Mike Mottls office
• MSB 422 Nikolai Turetskys office
• MSB 433 Derek Youngs office
• MSB 500 Tony Clarkes lab
• MSB 520 Frank Sansones lab
• MSB 514 516 Kathleen Ruttenbergs labs
• MSB 601 Craig Smiths lab
• MSB 632 Sharon Sakamotos office
• MSB 633 Margaret McManus lab

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Research NeedsShip operations

• Replacement for Snug Harbor
• Space needs
• Large-capacity organized storage for
  oceanographic gear
• Staging area for cruises and major project
  development
• Possible sites
• NOAA-NMFS buildings on Dole St.
• Old CTAHR buildings on Woodlawn Ave.
• Full-ocean-depth ROV
• Coastal research vessel

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Coastal Research VesselRecommended specifications

• gt40 ft LOA
• Twin screws for improves mobility and station
  keeping
• Max speed 15 knots
• 120V AC power
• Small cabin for electronics and dry gear
• Overhead lifting capacity (1000lb) -- small
  crane and/or A-frame
• Hydraulic pinch puller used to haul line on small
  coastal surface mooring
• Small winch for trawling, CTDs etc.
• Large aft deck space

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Research NeedsSOEST Infrastructure

• Upgrading of ESF
• Capabilities
• Efficiency
• Accessibility
• Administration
• Accountability
• Research support staff at the division level
• Convert secretary positions to APT positions
• SOEST facilities management
• Improved efficiency of renovations
• Improved support for building maintenance repair

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• Cleanup of debris behind MSB

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Research NeedsOther Research Needs

• Improved contract grant startup
• Quickly accessible, small internal SOEST grants
  for risky/seed projects
• Sea Grant - a valuable source of support for
  locally relevant research, but....
• Pays less than half of SOEST GA stipend rate
• Requires substantial cost matches

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Personnel Issues

• Faculty recruiting retention
• Cost of living housing
• Need for housing purchase assistance
• Post-doc support
• Increase number of SOEST Young Investigators
• Increase research support for Young Investigators
  (currently 3000/year)

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Educational Needs

• Teaching labs
• Biological Oceanography
• Chemical Oceanography
• Operational (Physical) Oceanography
• Student training cruises
• Faculty development and mentoring
• Outside speaker program -- use to fund visitors
  and special guests
• Improved student recruiting

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Public Outreach

• A common problem for all research grants
• CMORE is a great help, but not the sole solution
• A possiblity pool funds from grants and
  donors(!) to form a SOEST EPO facility for common
  use
• Improved outreach to community
• Town and gown lectures
• Support for local K-12 schools
• SOEST-written stories for local media
• Video pod-casts
• Improved outreach to potential students
• Better, more current web site

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Non-Traditional Funding

• Obviously needed to support improvements being
  suggested!
• NSF-IGERT style support for graduate students
• At UHM Integrative Training in Ecology,
  Conservation Pathogen Biology
• Proposal led by SOEST Assoc. Dean for Academic
  Affairs?
• Foundations
• Corporations
• Individuals

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Possible Applications

• Scholarships
• Undergrad
• Recruitment
• Support for Senior Theses
• Grad
• Recruitment -- support of first-year students,
  separate from grant funds
• Endowed faculty chairs
• Education public outreach
• Specialized research facilities
• Educational facilities and activities
• Teaching / computer labs
• Teaching and student-research cruises

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Ways to develop relationshipswith potential
donors

• Research / field experiences for potential donors
• Short presentations of current results - Rotary
  Clubs, etc.
• Leveraging of current interest in Global Change
• Travel industry
• Ocean energy developers
• Individual citizens
• Foundations

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Summary

• The department is running strongly, but a number
  of issues are of increasing concern
• On-campus research facilities
• Ship operations
• SOEST infrastructure and grant support
• Faculty retention post-doc support
• Education and public outreach
• Educational program needs
• Clearly, state support is not the answer --
  alternative sources of funding need to be
  actively developed