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OCEANOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES 



Table IV. — Revised "budget for year 1959 



[Dollar amounts in thousands] ' 



Income: 



Government contracts: 



Navy 



National Science Foundation. 

 Atomic Energy Commission.. 



Air Force 



Fish and Wildlife Service 



Weather Bureau 



Public Health Service 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 



Endowment 



Associates 



Total 3,775.3 



$2, 722. 4 

 623.2 

 137.7 

 59.7 

 40.0 

 15.0 

 12.3 



3, 610. 3 



20.0 



133.0 



12.0 



Here it is shown that the largest source of funds is the U.S. 'Navy 

 with the National Science Foundation second and the Atomic En- 

 ergy Commission third. The breakdown of expenditures in the sev- 

 eral areas of science is also shown in the table. Our greatest etl'orts 

 are related to military oceanography and the problems of naval war- 

 fare. These, though of paramount impoi'tance, should not over- 

 shadow the other important problems awaiting solution. I refer 

 here to research areas such as marine meteorology, ocean resources 

 of food, minerals and energy, sea-keeping for merchant ships, atomic 

 ■waste disposal, pollution of coastal waters and even more important 

 those areas wherein our knowledge is insufficient to identify them. 



THE FUTURE 



We at Woods Hole endorse heartily and fully support the report 

 of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Oceanography 

 and the TENOC program of the U.S. Navy. We are well aware of the 

 responsibilities it im])oses upon us and our colleagues. We, too, have 

 been looking into the future and projecting our needs as we see them. 

 We have completed ])reliniiiiai'y design on a number of ty|H^s of re- 

 search vessels and selected the one most suitable for an Afhnttix re- 

 placement. On the basis of this, a ])ro])osal has been submitted to 

 the National Science Foundation for funds to the extent of $-5,7r)0,(){)() 

 for such a vessel. (See p. 271.) Unless iinal design and model test- 

 ing can begin immediately an unseemly gap wull occur after tlie 

 Atlantis layup in June of 19G0. 



