JISAO Review April 19, 2005
NOAAUW JISAO PMELOffice of Research Administrative Structure
Vice Provost for Research Administrative BoardDirector Senior Fellows Administrator Business Office Scientific Staff
Vice Provost for Research Administrative BoardDirector Senior Fellows Administrator Business Office Scientific Staff Canines
NOAA steakholders
NOAA NMFS Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research PMEL Office of Global Programs Climate Observing RISAs NWS AFSC NMML NWFSC
University of Washington Arts & Sciences Ocean & Fisheries Science Engineering Atmospheric Sciences Earth & Space Sciences Oceanography Aquatic and Fisheries Science Applied Physics Lab MarineAffairs Civil Undergraduate Education Research Earth Initiative Environment Climate Change
Geosciences html NASA 5,151 papers 83,362 citations NOAA 4,082 68,532 NCAR 2,484 49,231 U Wash 2,562 46,985 USGS 3,915 46,303
NOAA Contribution Funding for Postdocs and Visitors ~10% of funding for JISAO Office
UW Contribution Director academic faculty member 4 months salary… reduced teaching duties ~90% of funding for JISAO Office Waiver of indirect costs on Task I Space for Business Office
JISAO Research
Research Administration Task I Visitors and Postdoc Program UW waives indirect costs Academic Freedom Administered by senior fellows Area-specific Task II Cooperative Research off-campus indirect cost rate 26% Task III Extramural Funding on-campus indirect cost rate 52.6%
JISAO Research Groups (continued) Marine Ecosystems FOCI NMFS supported Coastal Oceanography Tsunamis
JISAO Staff 116 PI-level Scientists15 Support Scientists 65 Postdocs 11 Graduate Students17 Administrative 8 UW PIs 30 Senior Fellows 38
Research Themes Marine Ecosystems (formerly Fisheries recruitment) Climate Coastal Oceanography (formerly Estuaries) Environmental Chemistry
NOAA Strategic Plan Marine Ecosystems Climate Weather and Water Commerce and Transportation
Research Groups Marine Ecosystems FOCI NMFS supported Climate Tropical Ocean, Atmosphere Arctic Pacific Northwest
JISAO Research Groups (continued) Coastal Oceanography Tsunamis Environmental Chemistry Ocean Carbon Atmospheric Aerosols and Trace Gases Hydrothermal Vents
Awards by Research Theme Argo Floats FOCI
Impacts of JISAO Research
Performance Metrics Accomplishments Citations Awards and Honors Competitiveness Non-academic metrics
Accomplishments Dynamics of ENSO Cycle, PDO, AO TAO Array; Argo Floats; Arctic buoys Ocean carbon measurements IGAC, baseline measurements Tsunami preparedness Promoting usage of regional climate data
Highly Cited Papers McPhaden MJ. SCIENCE 283 (5404): FEB Times Cited: 292 Mantua NJ, et al. AMS BULLETIN 78 (6): JUN 1997 Times Cited: 657 Takahashi T,..... Feely, RA and C. Sabine DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II- 49 (9-10): Times Cited: 81
Awards and Honors 2005 Rhines, Lettenmaier: AMS Lecturers 2004 Miles: Elected to the National Academy of Sciences Untersteiner: Elected Fellow of the AAAS McPhaden: Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Federal Service Bates: NOAA Administrator’s Award Feely and Sabine: NOAA Outstanding Paper Award G. Johnson: NOAA Outstanding Paper Award Vecci: Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers O’Brien, Roe: Letters of Commendation from NDBC
JISAO according to Google Arctic 6th ARGO Floats 3rd Atmospheric Chemistry 3rd Bering Sea 1st Climate Impacts 6th El Niño 5th Hydrothermal Vents 2nd Ocean Carbon 1st Tsunamis 2nd (UW)
Issues Funding for Ecosystems and Weather Managing Recompetition Tensions between the Academic and Business Models Space
JISAO Staff 116 PI-level Scientists150 Support Scientists 658 Postdocs 117 Graduate Students175 Administrative 8 UW PIs 30 7 Senior Fellows 38 0
The Academic Model Proposals Peer Review Citations as a measure of impact Partnerships Long term (10-year +) perspective Capacity maintenance Basic research is important
“The Business Model” Strategic Planning, Goals and Objectives Non-Academic Performance Metrics efficiency, timeliness, relevance, economic payoff Clients, Stakeholders, Contractors 1-5 year Planning Horizon Capacity Building Project Tracking; Phase-out of “Completed Projects” Out-sourcing; Privatization