Overview
The Center for Coastal Margin Observation & Prediction (CMOP) is creating a new paradigm for conducting coastal-margin science. It is anticipatory rather than reactive, and is based on the emerging power of structured integrations of information, methods and people. We call these integrations “collaboratories.”
Vision
We seek to develop a new way of studying and understanding the coastal environment, with which to address the increasing challenges faced by those environments due to human activities and changing climate. We seek to move beyond “multidisciplinary” - to create a paradigm and environment where science, societal needs and education come together in synergistic new ways.
Description: CMOP provides and actively nurtures an operational and intellectual environment fueled by sustained information sharing, wherein science, societal needs and education come together in unique, synergistic ways, transcending traditional boundaries that divide disciplines and missions. The developing new paradigm requires simultaneous consideration of coastal margin processes across a continuum of disciplines and time and space scales, literally from “genes-to-climate.”
CMOP is the only NSF Science and Technology Center (STC) ever focused on coastal margins, the only STC ever headquartered in Oregon, and one of only two STCs ever focused on ocean issues.
CMOP is a large multi-institutional partnership led by Oregon Health & Science University (Host institution), with Oregon State University, and University of Washington as anchor partners
Core Funding
The core funding for the center is from the National Science Foundation. Phil Taylor (Division of Ocean Sciences), Dragana Brzakovic (Office of Integrative Activities), and Miles Boylan (Education and Human Resources) are the NSF program managers for the center.
Location
CMOP is headquartered at Oregon Health & Science University's West Campus in Beaverton, Oregon. Activities also take place at the campus of partner institutions. Extensive video conferencing capabilities are being used to minimize collaboration barriers created by distance.
Leadership
The Center Director, Dr. António Baptista, is a Professor in the Division of Environmental and Biomolecular Systems at the Oregon Health & Science University. He reports to the OHSU Provost and leads a Senior Management Team that also includes: co-Directors (Dr. David Martin, UW and Dr. Murray Levine, OSU), Managing Director (Amy Johnson, OHSU), and Director of Higher Education and Diversity (Vanessa Green, OHSU).
