Africa science plan attacked

CLIVAR AFRICA Implementation Plan

Africa is a vast continent straddling the equator with roughly equal landmasses in each hemisphere. It forms one of the three major tropical land areas (along with South America and Indonesia-Borneo or the so-called ‘maritime continent’) and is surrounded by two of the three tropical oceanic basins. Africa’s unique geographical position leads to an equally substantial role in determining the ch...

Science Plan and Implementation Strategy

Preface The global environment is changing due to human and natural causes. The challenge of understanding global environmental change and of providing the policy-relevant knowledge base required by societies to deal with this change reaches across many aspects of scientific endeavour. Research combines observations, process studies, manipulative experiments and modelling, to improve the capabi...

Burns disasters--a plan for South Africa.

The Gemini Observatory Science Operations Plan

We review the Gemini Observatory science operations plan including the proposal submission, allocation and observation planning processes; the telescope operations model; and the scientific staffing plans and user support. Use of the telescope is shown by via a scenario involving a sub-stellar companion search program to illustrate the planning tools and level of integration required between th...

Abstracts for the Npafc Science Plan Review