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Now, fortunately, this man has tremendous love and interest in 

 basic research and in teaching and he has accepted a job at $6,000 a 

 year at Connecticut Wesleyan University, but it places an enormous 

 strain upon a young boy to take a salary of roughly half what he is 

 offered in industry. 



Mr. Pelly. But you say we do not have enough presently of those 

 individuals in order to fill the need that there is and to go on and get 

 enough information to really put this Nation where it should be in 

 the oceanography field. 



Dr. Brown. That is correct, yes. 



Mr. Pelly. I can see there is a real problem as far as money is 

 concerned. 



Dr. Brown. Now, of course, in the case of the Soviet Union, they 

 handle this in quite a different way. If they want to build up 

 oceanography, they put a lot of effort in that area, and pretty much 

 ignore other competitive areas, and a man is persuaded to go into 

 the field of oceanography quite successfully as a result. 



Mr. Pelly. Did your study have any specific recommendations in 

 that respect ? 



Dr. Brown. With respect to scholarships and fellowships? 



Mr. Pelly. Yes. 



Dr. Brown. Yes, indeed. We are specifically making a recom- 

 mendation that our Government scholarship-fellowship program 

 should be modified so that it would be possible for us to take areas 

 where we know we are weak and build them up by offering more 

 scholar;Jiips and fellowships in that area than in certain others. 



Mr. Pelly. Do you mean by that that the National Science Founda- 

 tion would be on a purely competitive basis and that you would have 

 the authority to concentrate in certain fields ? 



Dr. Brown. I believe that under normal circumstances, the Na- 

 tional Science Foundation should handle its affairs as it is now on a 

 strictly competitive basis but when an emergency arises where you 

 see clearly that we are falling behind in a particular area, where we 

 have insufficient manpower, we are not sufficiently strong, then it 

 should have the ability to strengthen the scholarship-fellowship pro- 

 gram in that particular area. 



Mr. Pelly. Does that take any legislative authority, or is it just a 

 matter of policy ? 



Dr. Brown. This is a matter of policy, I believe. 



Mr. Lennon. Doctor, do you liappen to recall about how many uni- 

 versities or colleges in America have either a school or department of 

 oceanography ? 



Dr. Brown. I know there are many, many schools which t«ach 

 oceanography in one way or another. There are only three or four 

 which actually give advanced degrees in oceanography. 



Mr. Lennon. The testimony of Admiral Ilayward seems to indi- 

 cate clearly tliat the Navy, certainly since World War II, has recog- 

 nized tlie necessity for a study of oceanography in its many aspects. 

 It occurred to me that the Navy having recognized this and the Coast 

 Guard a])parently not, to the extent that they have not established a 

 dei)artmeut in the Coast Guard Academy, perliaps the field of 

 commercial fisheries and merchant marine is where we are going to 

 have to interest industry into encouraging these young men to go into 

 this field. Is that your thinking about it ? 



