Coastal Ocean Processes : a science prospectus

Abstract

The Ocdan Sciences Division of the National Science Foundation has funded since 1987 a planning activity to draw the academic coastal ocean science community toward consensus on the priorities for coastal zone research over the next decade. The time is right for large-scale, fully interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the coastal ocean. The goal is to obtain a new level of quantitative understanding of the processes that dominate the transport, transformation and fates of biolgically, chemically and geologically important matter on the continetnal margins.