REPORT ON OCEANOGRAPHY 105 



affected. These changes have been the result of reorganization within 

 the University. In 1951 the Department of Oceanography was created 

 in the College of Arts and Sciences and authorized to offer programs 

 for both undergraduate and graduate students. A permanent, full-time 

 faculty was therefore created. The facilities at Friday Harbor (that for 

 some twenty years had, with the building on the main campus in 

 Seattle, comprised the Oceanographic Laboratories) were established as 

 an independent activity under the College of Arts and Sciences with 

 the name of the Friday Harbor Laboratories. The other major devel- 

 opment was that a research vessel, the 114-foot BROWN BEAR, was 

 made available to the University through the Office of Naval Research 

 of the Navy Department of Oceanography in surveys, research and train- 

 ing. 



The educational program of the Department of Oceanography is 

 unique in that undergraduates may elect oceanography as their major 

 subject in studying for a Bachelor of Science degree. The nature of 

 the courses offered in this program as well as in the graduate curri- 

 cula will be described elsewhere at this Congress (Fleming, in press). 

 The establishment of the Department carried with it the requirement 

 for a regular full-time faculty. The composition of this faculty at the 

 present time (November, 1953) is as follows: 



Richard H. Fleming^ Professor and Executive Officer of 

 the Department 



Thomas G. Thompson, Professor 



Clifford A. Barnes^, Associate Professor 



Howard R. Gould^ Assistant Professor 



Maurice Rattray, Jr., Assistant Professor 



Herbert F. Frolander, Instructor 



Robert G. Paquette, Lecturer 



In addition to the faculty there is a supporting staff of full-time re- 

 search investigators, technicians, crew members, and student assistants 

 totaling 45. This staff is largely supported by contract funds, princi- 

 pally derived from the Office of Naval Research. Chief research in- 

 vestigators on the staff are Dr. Richard G. Bader, Dr. Wayne V. Burt, 

 and Dr. Robert G. Paquette. 



Cooperative research with other departments of the University, that 

 was characteristic of the earlier organization of the Oceanographic 

 Laboratories, was gradually changed in nature. During the past year 

 students working in the laboratories but studying toward degrees in 

 Chemistry, Geology, Microbiology, etc., have completed their theses. 

 Many of these are mentioned later in this paper. 



