Looking to the Future
Our Vision
A Northeast Pacific Ocean where an innovative and collaborative ocean science community generates knowledge necessary to sustain resilient and thriving ecosystems, marine resources, coastal communities, and economies.
Our Mission
To provide new solutions-oriented knowledge for addressing the challenges of a rapidly changing ocean, and expanding demands on ocean uses through collaborative research and training partnerships that accelerate innovations and impacts in ocean science and management.
Our Goals
- Co-produce knowledge with agency researchers, resource managers, and stakeholders to understand and predict changes in ocean ecosystems, habitats, resources, coastal communities, and economies.
- Build effective, collaborative, and transdisciplinary teams that develop solutions to complex challenges posed by interacting human and ocean system changes, and the needs of a science-empowered sustainable ocean economy.
- Provide a nimble research infrastructure that allows NOAA and OSU to develop and employ technological innovations to anticipate and respond to emerging ocean management challenges.
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Effectively share knowledge to inform the wise use of ocean resources and society’s ability to thrive in the face of changing economic and environmental conditions.
- Support and train a skilled ocean science workforce that serves the needs of our nation.