Open AccessField Stations and Marine Labs Urged to Adapt to Changing Economies and Technologies
Author(s) -
Showstack Randy
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2014eo320002
Subject(s) - outreach , field (mathematics) , emerging technologies , business , scientific field , political science , engineering , computer science , work (physics) , mechanical engineering , mathematics , artificial intelligence , pure mathematics , law
More than 900 scientific field stations, marine laboratories, and nature reserves around the world provide valuable and often unique opportunities for research, education, and public outreach. They also are repositories of long‐term data. However, if these scientific outposts—which often are in remote locations—are going to continue to survive and thrive in challenging economic times, “they will need to become more flexible, able to adapt to changing research technologies, to changing economies, and to the changing environment in which we are all embedded,” according to a 23 July report issued by a committee of the U.S. National Research Council.