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Alaska Research and Development Preface: The SJR44 Charge and Our Response 2 Introduction The Organization of this Report, and Our Deliverables 3 What is Research and Development (RD )? 4 Why Should Alaska Care About RD? 5 Prerequisites for a Strong State RD Program 6 Entangled Values 9 Next Steps 10 RD and Alaska’s Natural Environment 11 Approach to Development of a Natural Environmental 11 RD Plan The Dominant Themes 12 A Strategy for Natural Environmental RD in Alaska 18 Actions-to-Date and Next Steps 21 RD and Alaska’s Human Environment 24 Approach to Development of a Human Environmental 24 RD Plan The Dominant Themes 26 Strategy, Action- to-Date, Next Steps 32 RD and Alaska’s Economy 35 Using Research to Broaden Alaska’s Economic Base 35 Two Critical Issues: Mapping and Telecommunications 41 Some Tentative Conclusions 45 Industrial Snapshots 46 RD and Alaska’s Infrastructure 56 Policy Issues 56 Science and Engineering Issues 59 A Common Need: Resource Assessment and Monitoring 63 Strengthening and Maintaining the Health of State Research Institutions 65 Ways to Ensure the Federal and State Governments Work Together 70 Appendices on the Web: A. SJR44 B. “Alaska RD Plan: Organization and Approach”, 10Sep02 Preface: The SJR44 Charge and Our Response Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) No. 44 of the Second Session of the 22nd Legislature of the State of Alaska (Appendix A) requested that representative state and federal organizations jointly develop a Research and Development (RD) plan to: ???help expand and diversify Alaska’s economy, ???protect the health of Alaskans and the environment of Alaska, and ???strengthen and maintain the health of state research institutions. The parties drafting the plan were further asked to: ???identify ways to ensure that the federal and state governments work together ???identif