Book Description
The Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory's (PMEL's) core values of integrity, excellence, and leadership have helped us to combine scientific independence with strategic integration and societal relevance. The laboratory is more than a collection of individual scientists; it provides an infrastructure that promotes interaction between researchers with related interests to achieve the NOAA, OAR, and PMEL missions. This document outlines PMEL's 20 year vision and mission statements, as well as a set of 5 year strategic goals to achieve that long-term vision. Much of the laboratory's success is based on its ability to establish and maintain critical partnerships that allow PMEL scientists to leverage its base resources for the benefit of NOAA and the larger scientific community. Although the Laboratory faces many challenges in both the short and long term, PMEL is dedicated to the NOAA mission and optimistic about its ability to continue its preeminent research in the future.
