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SIZE OF staff: Ten or 12 at professional level; 2 



technicians. 

 major current research projects and scientific 

 leaders: 

 Oceanography (Ramon Nobrega, Lourinaldo Barreto 



Cavalcanti, and Julio Vicente Alves de Araujo) 

 Marine biology (Jacques Louis Laborel, Olimpio Car- 



neiro da Silva, and Petronio Alves Coelho) 

 Algology (Maria Leda Labanca) 

 Geology (Paulo da Nobrega Coutinho) 

 Planktonology (Shigekatsu Sato and Maryse Nogueiro 



Paranagua) 

 Fish and fisheries will be organized in 1963. 

 PUBLICATIONS ISSUED: Trabalhos do Institiiio de Bio- 

 logia Maritima e Oceana grapa da Unhersidade do 

 Recife (regularly published journal) 



Universidade de Sao Paulo, lustituio Oceario- 

 grafjco 



UNIVERSITY OF SAO PAULO, OCEANOGRAPHIC 

 INSTITUTE 



POSTAL ADDRESS: 



Aia/i! laboratory and headquarters: Caixa Postal 

 9075, ALimeda Eduardo Prado, 698, Sao Paulo, 

 Brasil (Brazil). 



Aliirii/e stations: 



1. Northern Station in Ubatuba. 



2. Southern Station in Cananeia. 



EXECUTIVE officer: Dr. Ingvar Emilsson, Director. 



SPONSORING agency: Universidade de Sao Paulo 

 (University of Sao Paulo). 



YEAR founded: 1946; reorganized in 1960. 



SCOPE OF activities: Unrestricted research in ocean- 

 ography, marine biology, fisheries biology and marine 

 products technology; graduate instruction. 



SEASON OF operation: All year. 



PHYSICAL environment ACCESSIBLE: South Atlantic 



Ocean with special emphasis on subtropical conver- 

 gence, Brazil Current; sandy and silty beaches, rocky 

 and gravelly shores, estuarine conditions, brackish, 

 shallow bays and shallow lagoons with mangrove 

 vegetation. 

 PROVISIONS FOR VISITING SCIENTISTS: Research and 

 living space for 6 at Cananeia, 4 at Ubatuba, and 2-3 

 at Sao Paulo. 



MAJOR RESEARCH AND TEACHING FACILITIES: Moder- 

 ately complete library; large outdoor pond at Can- 

 aneia, small aquarium tanks; research collections of 

 Brazilian marine iishes, crustaceans, mollusks, fora- 

 miniferans, diatoms and other elements of the local 

 marine fauna and flora ; identified reference collec- 

 tions of crustaceans, mollusks, foraminiferans, and 

 diatoms; machine and wood shop; small boats and 

 outboard motors; vessels, 15 m LOA, Emilia, 1 m 

 LOA, ]uva, and a new 49 m LOA oceanographic and 

 fishery research vessel under construction. 



INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM: Special 4 year courses in 

 oceanography planned to start in 1961. 



SIZE OF STAFF: Twenty-one at professional level; 17 

 technicians. 



IMPORTANT SPECIES AVAILABLE FOR LABORATORY 

 STUDIES: 



Pisces: Miigil cephalus, Sardine! la allecia 

 Subtropical Atlantic invertebrates 

 major current research projects and scientific 



leaders: 

 Taxonomic and biological studies of tishes (Luiz 



Roberto Tommasi) 

 Plankton (Marta Vannucci) 



Benthos (J. Paiva Carvalho and Liliana Forneris) 

 Nekton (Tagea K. S. Bjornberg) 

 Fisheries biology (Plinio Soares Moreira) 



PUBLICATIONS ISSUED: 



Boletim do Institute Oceanografico (regularly pub- 

 lished journal) 

 Catalogue of Marine Larvae 

 Contrikuicoes Ai'i/has: Tecnologia 



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UNIVERSIDADE DE SAO PAULO, STATION CANANEIA 



UNIVERSIDADE DE SAO PAULO, STATION UBATUBA 



