OCEANOGRAPHY IN THE UNITED STATES 



TUESDAY, JUISTE 23, 1959 



House of Representatives, 

 Special Subcommittee on Oceanography 



OF THE CoMMMITTEE ON IMeRCHANT MaRINE AND FISHERIES, 



Washington^ D.G. 



The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., in room 217, Old House Office 

 Building, Hon. George P. Miller (chairman of the subcommittee) 

 presiding. 



Mr. Miller. The committee will be in order. 



The Subcommittee on Oceanography of the House Committee on 

 Merchant Marine and Fisheries is convening today. 



We have the privilege of having Mr. Gordon Lill and Mr. Willard 

 Bascom talk about the Mohole proje-ct. 



This is a research project in which we are all interested because 

 this is the first attempt to get down into the ocean floor. 



Do you want to read your statement ? 



STATEMENT OF GORDON G. LILL AND WILLARD BASCOM 



Mr. Lill. We have a prepared statement which Mr. Bascom will 

 read, and I would like to make some extemporaneous elaborations, 

 after which he would like to show some slides. 



Mr. Miller. We will be happy to have you proceed in that fashion. 

 Before you do that it might be well to insert at this point in the 

 record a resume of your backgrounds. 



(The resumes referred to follow :) 



RESUMfi OF THE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES OF WHXARD BASCOM, TECHNICAL 



Director fob the AMSOO Committee 



Born November 7, 1916. in Nevp York City. 



Educated as a geological engineer at the Colorado School of Mines (1942). 



Worked as mining engineer in several States (to 1945). 



Research engineer on oceanographic projects in the engineering department 

 of the University of California at Berkeley, Calif. (1945-51). 



Research engineer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, Calif. 

 (1951-54). 



Joined staff of National Academy of Sciences in 1954 as technical director 

 of several advisory committees including those on civil defense, meteorology and 

 maritime research. 



Technical director for AMSOC, January 1959 to present. 



U.S. delegate to IGY Conference on Oceanography in Sweden. 



IGY field engineer (South Pacific) on vpave observations, 1957. 



Consultant to industry on oceanographic instrument development. 



Author of many articles on oceanographic subjects including : "The Mohole," 

 Scientific American, April 1959; "AMSOC's Mohole," Nature, July 1959 (with 

 Lill) ; "Ocean Waves," Scientific American, August 1959. 



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