Ocean Studies Board

美国国家科学院将通过其海洋研究委员会（OSB），就重大海洋科学和政策问题向美国国家科学基金会/海洋科学部和其他联邦机构提供指导。这一请求是为了继续为OSB提供核心支持，并为启动一个关于“1990年代海洋学”的项目提供少量支持。OSB计划在今后几年内审议与大陆边缘、沿海海洋学、二氧化碳循环、渔业海洋学、海洋生物技术和“1990年代海洋学”有关的科学问题，其中一些工作计划在本财政年度开始。OSB还将通过支持和参与国际科学联盟理事会（ICSU）的海洋研究科学委员会（SCOR），支持美国海洋科学家在这些领域发挥国际领导作用。因此，OSB将继续为维持美国海洋科学的健康作出贡献。

The National Academy of Sciences, through its Ocean Studies Board (OSB), will provide guidance to the National Science Foundation/Division of Ocean Sciences and other Federal agencies on major ocean science and policy issues. This request is for continued Core Support for the OSB, and a small amount of support to start a project on "Oceanography for the 1990's".The OSB plans to consider scientific issues related to continental margins, coastal oceanography, the carbon dioxide cycle, fisheries oceanography, marine biotechnology and "Oceanography in the 1990's"-- over the next few years, with some of these efforts scheduled to begin in the present fiscal year. The OSB will also support U.S. ocean scientists to provide leadership in these areas internationally, through support of and participation in the Scientific Committee of Oceanic Research (SCOR) of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU). The OSB will, thus, continue to contribute to maintaining the health of ocean sciences in the United States.