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Description:This 1977 Annual Report marks the completion of the early experimental development phase of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium. During this period a number of varied management and administrative mechanisms have been tried, most to be later modified or abandoned. The difficulties of managing a two-state program, encompassing nine distinct research institutions spread over an area of almost 10,000 square miles are formidable indeed. This "incubation period" was essential to arriving at a point of development in which program management and administration could be achieved both effectively and efficiently, at a realistic cost, while producing significant research, education and other products. That this has been accomplished is evident by a review of the progress of the program as this is being written, some months following the completion of the 1977 effort. In early 1977, under new leadership, the program was charged with developing a more focused direction, increased research capability and versatility, with more responsive and effective management techniques. Partial documentation of the success in addressing these charges lies in the recently announced elevation of the program to Institutional status, and in the coincident major federal support increase.
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Sea Grant Document Number:MASGC-Q-78-002
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