OCEANOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES 



MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1959 



House of Representatives, 

 Special Subcommittee on Oceanography 

 OF the Committee on Merchant ISIarine and Fisheries, 



Woods Hole, 31 ass. 

 The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at Woods Hole, Mass.,, 

 Hon. George P. Miller (chairman of the subcommittee.) presiding. 

 Present : Representatives Miller, Oliver, and Flynn. 

 Also present: Jolin M. Drewry, Esq., chief counsel and Congress- 

 man Hastings Keith, Ninth Congressional District, Massachusetts. 

 Chairman JVIiller. The meeting will please come to order. 

 We will now hear from members of the Woods Hole Oceanographic 

 Institution. 



The first witness will be Paul M. Fye, director. 



STATEMENT OF PAUL M. FYE, DIRECTOR, WOODS HOLE 

 OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION 



Mr. Fye. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was founded 

 in 1930 as a direct result of a recommendation of a National Academy 

 of Sciences' Committee on Oceanography which had been studying 

 the status of marine science in this country for 2^/^ years prior to 

 the submission of its report in 1929. The effects of this report three 

 decades ago were vast and far reaching, not only in the establishment 

 of this Institution but also in the expansion of the teaching of ocea- 

 nography in several universities throughout the country and in the 

 extension of the work of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at 

 La Jolla, Calif. 



In spite of the fact that these 30 years have seen this Institution 

 grow into a full-fledged, energetic research institution and that ocean- 

 ography has tecome a science well recognized by each scliool child 

 and now commonly mentioned in newspapers, magazines, and by the 

 man on the street, we find ourselves today urged by another National 

 Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanogi*aphy to once again 

 expand greatly our research effort, in oceanography and related 

 sciences. The increased appreciation in recent months for the urgent 

 need to increase rapidly our stake in the ocean frontier has been a 

 direct result of the work of your committee and the recent work of the 

 Harrison Brown gi'oup. We hope that an examination of our In- 

 stitution, its nature, history, how it came into being, the science it has 

 done and is now doing will assist you in your appraisal of oceanog- 

 raphy and in your evaluation of the Nation's requirements for the 

 future. This task which you have set for your subcommittee is of 



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