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JIMO Review: Strengths, Challenges, and Recommendations

This presentation provides the first external documented review of the Joint Institute for Marine Observations (JIMO), highlighting its strengths, challenges, and recommendations for future actions. The review concludes that JIMO is an outstanding practitioner in selected areas of earth science, leveraging local/state resources, and facilitating program initiation and research to operations transition efforts.

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JIMO Review: Strengths, Challenges, and Recommendations

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  1. Joint Institute for Marine Observations (JIMO) Review:La Jolla, CA May 18-19, 2005A Presentation to the NOAA Science Advisory Board Otis Brown Chair JIMO Review Team August 8, 2005

  2. Outline • Purpose • Strengths/Challenges • Commentary • SAB Action

  3. Purpose • Provide the first external documented review of the JIMO • Review conclusions • JIMO strengths and challenges • Needed SAB action: accept review • Review Committee members: • Richard Lawford, Rebecca Smyth, Rik Wanninkhof, Tom Schroeder (ex-officio) & Otis Brown

  4. General Observations • JIMO is an outstanding practitioner in selected areas of earth science supporting the NOAA mission • JIMO’s fellows are uniformly first-rate and very competent scientists • JIMO has been very successful in acting as a mechanism for NOAA support of SIO research • JIMO is a leader in developing relationships between the University of California (UC)-system and NOAA • Linkages facilitate program initiation, long-term program support of NOAA missions, and research to operations transition efforts

  5. JIMO Strengths • Quality of the institute’s research and its fellows • Leveraging of local/state resources in support of NOAA goals • Diversity of science and education/outreach programs • Linkages to international programs, e.g., ABC, ARGO, GEWEX • Nascent role as an integrator of UC earth system science • Efficiency and speed of program initiation • Strong partnering with some NOAA programs • Substantial value provided to NOAA

  6. JIMO Challenges • Completion and assessment of several programs by 2008 • Sustaining the Institute’s highly leveraged scientific agenda • Broadening agenda into biogeochemical cycles • Governance and management structure • Strategic planning process • Succession of fellows and institute leadership • Preparing for the CI re-competition process • Leveraging of UC relationships

  7. Commentary • JIMO is a non-traditional application of the JI framework - its principal partners are the NOAA Climate Office and NMFS, rather than research labs • NOAA should articulate its expectations for such JI relationships in order to facilitate their planning and management • JIMO should involve its members in a governance/planning process • JIMO was judged to be a successful Joint Institute that is worthy of NOAA’s continued support

  8. SAB Action • Accept the JIMO Review Report

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