The oceans are fundamental to climate and weather patterns across the world; they provide
minerals, foods and chemicals; they are major sources of energy resources, in the form of
both hydrocarbons for current needs and renewables for potential development; and they
provide services in the form of transport, trade, communications and recreation. They also
provide unquantified (or perhaps unquantifiable) services through the maintenance of
biological and landscape diversity, the importance of which may only be fully appreciated
by future generations. For all these reasons, the oceans need to be explored, monitored,
studied and understood more thoroughly than has been the case up to now.
In 1986 the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology examined
marine science and technology in the UK and concluded that it was poorly co-ordinated,
fragmented and underfunded. We echo those conclusions today. We have been greatly
impressed by the research efforts of UK institutions and individual scientists but we have
found these to be inadequately supported in terms of co-ordination and overall levels of
funding. We have made many recommendations aimed at improving this process.
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