IGPP does not teach courses in a number of areas in which additional instruction would be welcome. The pace of University of California's decision making process can be too slow to take advantage of new opportunities. The side availability of computers, printers, and the IGPP digital library allows students and researchers to work more in isolation than was the case only five years ago. New models for ensuring discussion and collaboration have not developed naturally. Small group seminars, while promoting activities within the group, tend to isolate the research groups further.
Opportunities provide pathways to meet our goals.
Threats are potential obstacles to the realization of these goals. The opportunities higher on the list offer the potential for greater advances in IGPP's core activities. Threats are ordered by decreasing immediacy and the extent of their effect on AGU and its programs. Renewed and growing interest in the geophysical sciences by industry, and rapidly growing funding at IGPP in particular, can potentially replace and enhance reduced funding from the federal government. Significant opportunities for increasing the size of the endowment managed by the Green Foundation exist given a highly active and involved Board of Directors.