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Basic research and research beneficial to several 

 national goals 



Mission related research 



Excludes Mohole at $ 17.0 M in FY 66 

 3 1.0 M in FY 67 



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FiGUBE 20. — Funding for oceanographic research. 



Fiscal Year 1968 



Research support proposed in the marine sciences for the next 

 fiscal year of $138 million is roughly $18 million more than was 

 appropriated for 1967. Research funding during the past three years 

 constitutes a constant thirty percent share of the total marine sciences 

 budget ( See Figure 20) . This also represents a continuing two percent 

 of the Federal research budget. Most of the 1968 increase is reflected 

 in the budgets of the Navy, Commerce, and the National Science 

 Foundation. Details are presented in Part Two of this report. Of 

 special note is the Foundation's designation of marine sciences as 

 one of the four fields which deserve increased support in order to 

 fill hollows in the broad spectrum of research. The task of identifying 

 areas of marine science which must be strengthened to meet the 

 national need will not be the sole responsibility of the National Science 

 Foundation ; this task must also be assumed by all agencies supporting 

 research in this field, and this area will receive continued attention 

 by the Council. 



Trends 



Oceanography, as a field of scientific specialization, is comparatively 

 new. The first academic degree was granted only thirty-five years ago. 

 The growth in university training is shown in Figure 21. A 1964 

 survey funded by the National Science Foundation found 2,650 persons 

 professionally employed in marine science and technology, of whom 



