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TITLE: Coniferous Biome Central Office
OBJECTIVES:
1. To provide services in administration, accounting., information,
and analysis
2. To assist with the work of Research and Technical Committees
3. To manage the inter-Biome interactions among scientists
4. To manage the intra-Biome conferences and workshops
APPROACH:
Principal costs for direction of the Biome will again be contributed
by the University of Washington through the time of both the director
and one of the deputy directors. However, in order to support these
individuals and the deputy director at Oregon State, a full-time administrative
assistant is needed. We were fortunate to,secure the services
of Dr. Hans Riekerk for this position in year 1 and his continued
employment is anticipated and planned for.
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Various kinds of services must be provided by the Biome office at an
increased level as the organization develops. These include editorial
assistance for various levels of communication, report writing, scientific
papers, and proposals. An important task will be to communicate the
research objectives and research progress to colleagues throughout the
Coniferous Biome working area and certainly to the public at large,
including the political component at both the local and national levels.
The editor will also improve communications with the national office
and both National and International IBP Committees. Salary for an editor
to be employed on a half-time basis is requested to provide these services.
A considerable amount of secretarial service is needed at the Blame office
to provide needed support for the administrative staff. Secretarial
services for site directors and researchers beyond that related to
the central office is requested in individual budgets.
An information service item is requested to provide some assistance
to the University of Washington library system in fulfilling requests
for information related to Biome interests and to maintain a file of
publications on IBP work for both students and research workers, as well
as the general public. Since the initiation of the Coniferous Biome
program, heavy demands for additional services from these groups have
been placed on our college library, and this request is for some hourly
assistance funds.
In order to centralize and also control expenses for computer programming,
a programmer is requested at the central office level. This programmer
will work with Dr. Chapman's modeling group but will provide programming