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oceanography 1966 achievements and opportunities NATlONAL ACADEMY OF SClENCES NATlONAL RESEARCH COUNClL I An ocean is forever asking questions and writing them aloud along the shore. E.A.Robinson A REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION OF EARTH SCIENCES NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL oceanography 1966 achievements and opportunities PUBLICATION 1492 National AcademyofSciences National Research Council WASHINGTON, D.C. 1967 Firstprinting,March 1967 Secondprinting,June1967 Available from Printing and Publishing Office National Academy of Sciences 2101 Constitution Avenue Washington, D.C. 20418 LibraryofCongress CatalogCardNumber: 67-60017 cover: Taking a meridian altitude observation of the sun with an astrolab (1545). From Plate XVIII of The Art of Navigation in England in Eliza bethan and Early Stewart Times by D. W. Waters (Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1958). committee on oceanography milner schaefer, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Chairman karl banse, University of Washington wayne burt, Oregon State University PAUL fye, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution john knauss, University of Rhode Island sumner pike, Lubec, Maine donald pritchard, The Johns Hopkins University roger revelle, Harvard School of Public Health athelstan spilhaus, University ofMinnesota henry stommel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology george woollard, University of Hawaii richardc.vetter,NationalAcademyofSciences-National Research Council, Executive Secretary preface The first Committee on Oceanography of the National Academy of Sciences was appointed in 1927. The activities and reports of that Committee extended over a 10-year interval during which time funds were provided from private sources for the endowment of ocean- research institutions on both U.S. coasts and for the construction of ships and buildings; and oceanographic research in the United States becameestablishedon asystematicbasis. During World War II, the science and scientists provided by the ocean-research institutions were of great value. With the establish ment of the Office of Naval Research in 1946, additional support was provided for the expansion of ocean research at oceanographic institutions. At the same time, applied ocean research related to de fenseproblemswasbeingexpandedintheNavy's ownlaboratories. The extensive use of ocean science during the war led to a marked increase in public awareness of the field of oceanography in the post war period. Accordingly, in 1949, the Academy appointed a second
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