February 1970 | Other Unnumbered
ESSA Research Laboratories: Programs and Resources
Abstract: This report provides summary functional statements for the major laboratories comprising the ESSA Research Laboratories, or ERL; an organization chart, with program areas, leadership, and location; a summary list of scientific and technical publications for Fiscal Year (FY) 1969, i.e., July 1, 1968 – June 30, 1969; a list of outstanding paper awards and [with their] abstracts from July 1966 to April 1968; functions and program highlights of ERL for FY 1969 and 1970; a list of ESSA Research Laboratories university [research] grants for FY 1969; personnel resources, including disciplines and degrees represented by staff; financing resources comprising FY 1969 and 1970 gross laboratory financing (ESSA appropriations and Other Agency Sponsorship), general support at ERL level, and sources of Other Agency Reimbursables; and laboratory office addresses.
The mission statement of ERL can be stated as follows:
The ESSA Research Laboratories performs an integrated program of research and research services relating to the oceans and estuarine waters, the lower and upper atmosphere, the environmental factors in telecommunication, the space environment, and the solid earth to increase understanding of man's geophysical environment, and to provide the scientific basis for improved services.
ESSA Research Laboratories' Structure
ERL is managed through 12 principal research laboratories and supporting administrative and service units. The Office of the Director, ERL, is at Boulder, Colorado, as are six of the research units: Earth Sciences Laboratories, Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry Laboratory, Space Disturbances Laboratory, Aeronomy Laboratory, Wave Propagation Laboratory, and the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences. The Pacific Oceanographic Laboratories are located in Seattle, Washington; Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories and the Research Flight Facility in Miami, Florida; Air Resources Laboratories, Silver Spring, Maryland; Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey; and the National Severe Storms Laboratory at Norman, Oklahoma.
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