World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) (Geophysics and Oceanography): Oral history interviews, 1992-1994.

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World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) (Geophysics and Oceanography): Oral history interviews, 1992-1994.

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Interviews were conducted with members of the project's collaboration using a structured question set covering all stages of in the collaborative research process: the formation of the collaboration and its personnel; the organizational structure; the formation of the experiment teams; the drafting of the proposal; funding for U.S. groups by the National Science Foundation or other U.S. funding agencies; use of subcontractors; development of software for data collection and analysis; the collaboration's decision-making style; role of the Principal Investigators, science management offices, consortia headquarters, advisory groups, and graduates students; impact of internationalism; patterns of communications; records creation, use, distribution, and retention; also, comments on the interviewee's home institution and trends in graduate education in geophysics and oceanography. Interviews (listed by institutional member of the collaboration and by name of individual) on the planning of WOCE were conducted with: Institute of Oceanographic Science, United Kingdom: George Needler; National Center for Atmospheric Research: James McWilliams; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: David Goodrich, John Lupton; National Science Foundation: Curtis Collins, Richard Lambert; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego: Russ Davis; Texas A&M University: Worth Nowlin. Interviews on Pacific hydrography for WOCE were conducted with: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: Peter Schlosser; Oregon State University: Adriana Huyer; Princeton University: Robert Key; Rosenstiel School of Marine and Aquatic Studies: Rana Fine; Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Lynne Talley, Ray Weiss; University of Washington: Paul Quay. Other institutions involved in the collaboration: Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research; Institut fur Meereskunde an der Universitat Kiel; University of California, Santa Barbara; and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

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