G.E.R. Deacon, National Institute of 

 Oceanograpliy, I 'nited Kingdom, Worm- 

 ley, England 



G. Dietrich, Institiit I'iir Meereskunde, 

 Riel.CJerman federal Republic 



B.V. Hamon. CSIRCCronulla. Austra- 

 lia 



Gotthill Hempel, I'niversity of K.iel, 

 German E'ederal Republic 



Raul Herrera and Hellnuith A. Seivers, 

 Inslituto Hidrogralico de la Armada de 

 Gliile, Valparaiso, Chile 



H. Kasahara, Lhuted Nations, New 



G.A. Knox, University of Canterbury, 

 Christchurch, New Zealand 



Michel Legand, Centre ORSTOM, Nou- 

 mea, New Caledonia 



N.K. Panikkar. National Institute for 



Oceanography. Rate Marg, New Delhi, 



India 



Mario Ruivo, Department of Fisheries, 



FAO, Rome, Italy 



Lucian M. Sprague, Rockefeller Foun- 

 dation, New York, N.Y. 



K. Voigt. Institut fiir Meereskunde, 

 Warnemiinde, German Democratic Re- 



York. N.Y. public 



CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA 



.Attendance and presentation of papers at scientific 

 meetings continued normally during the period, as chron- 

 icled below: 



September 1%7 American Fisheries Society, Toronto, 

 Ontario: 



G. O. Schumann "Fxtent and causes 

 of early mortality in fish" 



November 1%7 15th Pacific Tuna Conference, Lake 

 Arrowhead. Calif.: 



A. R. Longhurst "Zooplankton of 

 EASTROPAC cruises" 



N.E. Clark "Intluence of large-scale 

 heat transfer processes on fluctuation 

 of sea-surface temperatures in theNorth 

 Pacific Ocean" 



G.A. Flitlner "Fishery forecasting: re- 

 cent developments in methods and ap- 

 plications" 



F. J. Hester "Visual contrast perception 

 in fishes" 



R.M. Laurs"Micronekton of EASTRO- 

 PAC: preliminary results" 

 December 19t>7 CalCOFI Conference, Lake Arrowhead, 

 Calif.: 



E. H. Ahlstrom, "Meso- and bathy- 

 pelegic fishes in the California Cur- 

 rent region" 



A.R. Longhurst "Pelagic invertebrate 

 resources" 



P.E. Smith "ADP and biological re- 

 quirements of the CalCOFI sampling 

 grid" 



March 1968 Conference on the Future of the U.S. 



Fishing Industry. Seattle, Wash.: 



E.H. Ahlstrom ".4n evaluation of the 

 fishery resources available to California 

 fishermen" 



May 1968 International Association of Biological 



Oceanography, Woods Hole, Mass.: 



E. H. Ahlstrom "The quantitative col- 

 lection of fish eggs and larvae" 



A.R. Longliurst "Development and de- 

 ployment of a system tor multiple serial 

 plankton sampling" 



P.L. Smith "Full spectrum pelagic 

 sampling" 



COOPERATION WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS 



The Fishery-Oceanography Center is fortunate in 

 its neighbors, and BCF scientists have daily contacts with 

 their colleagues from the various agencies of the Univer- 

 sity of California at San Diego, at seminars and more in- 



formally in each other's laboratories. Several members 

 of the Fishery-Oceanography Center staff (Ahlstrom, 

 Lasker, and Longhurst) have received honorary appoint- 

 ments to the Llniversily facults' and statf and have partic- 



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