The figure above illustrates the funding for WMRS operations and research programs over the past decade. In the late 1990’s, our mandate was to enhance the academic environment at the Station so we recruited research scientists who ran grants through WMRS, which increased extramural funding. WMRS also ran its own educational programs, which further increased use and recharge income. Following the 15-Year Review and 25-30% cumulative budget cuts starting in 2002, our priority changed to sustaining the facilities for recharge use by campus-based programs. This explains the dip in extramural income to WMRS, which has actually been sustained at a fairly high level by virtue of winning some new grants for facility improvements (NOTE-extramural in this figure only includes funding to WMRS programs and not the $3.7 million for other programs described in the text of the report). Use of the station also dipped with the initial budget cuts in 2001 and appears to be more volatile now as other programs are experiencing various budget limitations. Note the continued reliance of the station on recharge income for approximately 1/3 of the operating budget.

Publications based on research done at a field station are a traditional measure of research productivity. The WMRS bibliography included over 1,500 publications from its inception in 1950 through 1996 when the unit moved to UCSD. Since 1996, 468 new publications have been added to the WMRS bibliography, including 29 Master’s or Doctoral theses and 289 original journal articles.

The figure above illustrates the rate of publication. Early data is grouped for 5 year periods. Spikes in 1986, 1988, 1991 and 1992 represent publications produced by WMRS for symposia sponsored by the Station; this practice was discontinued in 1996.
It typically takes several years to capture all of the publications for a given year so the recent trend is not representative of decreased scholarly productivity at WMRS. Not included in these totals are over 150 papers from Dan Blake (UCI) who uses Crooked Creek air samples.

List of available annual reports since 1950

Since WMRS was founded in 1950, there has been a changing format for annual reporting. The list below shows years for which we have copies of annual reports. Note the switch from fiscal to calendar year in 1996. The "RAMS report" refers to the automated summary provided by the reservations administration system (RAMS) which we use to keep track of reservations and station use. As of August 2008, the list below refers only to materials located in the archives at WMRS. There are additonal archives in the WMRS special collection at the UCSD library which may yield materials from the early years.