Appendix B— IDOE Films 



NSF has arranged for the preparation of several films 

 describing the work of IDOE-funded oceanographers. These 16- 

 mm sound and color motion pictures are available from the 

 organizations indicated. 



The Alchemist Sea (5 minutes)-For nearly 200 million 

 years, the Earth's surface has been broken up into massive 

 plates that shift and move — often beneath the sea floor. 

 Scientists, collecting core samples from the sea floor, are 

 discovering that there is a relationship between plate 

 motion and the distribution of ore deposits. Their research 

 can help guide our search for metals on the sea floor as well 

 as on continents. (CCL) 



Boundary of Creation (27 minutes)-This film describes 

 the efforts of U.S. and French scientists in Project 

 FAMOUS to understand the ever-changing geology of our 

 Earth, particularly the midocean ridges off the Azores. The 

 picture features the probes of the submersible ALVIN in 

 the ocean depths and also portrays research in Hawaii and 

 Iceland. (NFL) 



Changing Climes (5 minutes)-Are the unusual weather 

 patterns and severe crop losses of recent years just passing 

 phenomena? Or is the Earth sliding into a downward side 

 of a long-term temperature cycle. Scientists are detecting 

 evidence of such long-term cycles and are raising some 

 early warnings. (CCL) 



Cycle in the Sea (4 minutes)-Thanks to the motions of 

 wind, water, and the Earth itself, life in the oceans 

 continuously renews itself. Here is an important story of 

 the balance in the world's ecosystems and the study of this 

 balance off the coast of Oregon. (RHR) (AEF) (KFP) 



Desert in the Deep? (5 minutes)-That the ocean floor is 

 no desert is beginning to be realized. But the varieties of life 

 forms, from simple organisms to sharks measuring four 

 feet between the eyes, were unsuspected until scientists 

 went to sea with cameras able to explore the very deepest 

 reaches of the ocean. (RHR) (AEF) (KFP) 



Elements of Mystery (25 minutes)-The film monitors the 

 progress of a team of scientists aboard the research ship 

 Melville as they gather data on chemical composition and 

 determine locations of manganese nodules in the Pacific. 

 The joint research effort, with several universities partici- 

 pating, is attempting to increase understanding of how 

 manganese nodules are formed, as well as their economic 

 potential as an international resource. (MTP) 



The Turbulent Ocean (60 minutes)-A documentary film 

 about the planning and execution of one of the largest 

 deep-sea expeditions in twentieth century oceanographic 



research. Over 75 scientists and technicians from 18 

 national and international universities and oceanographic 

 institutions set forth in a coordinated, cooperative effort to 

 find and measure eddies, strange and not yet understood 

 motions beneath the surface of the sea. (CF1) 



Well of Life (27 minutes)-The twin dramas of the ocean's 

 life cycles and the scientific probing of its mysteries are 

 combined in this story of ocean upwelling. Coastal 

 upwelling is the still little-understood process by which the 

 ocean continuously renews its resources, through the 

 motions of wind , water, and the Earth itself. This film deals 

 with the efforts of scientists to uncover the driving forces of 

 upwelling and to learn how it influences and is influenced 

 by weather, climate, and other ocean-linked phenomena. 

 The setting is off the Oregon coast. (English, French, 

 German, Spanish, and Russian versions.) (ACL) 



Where is the Weather Born? (5 minutes)- Weather and 

 climate, it has been said, began in the oceans. A group of 

 scientists have been studying the northern Pacific in the 

 effort to identify the oceanic processes relating to weather 

 conditions over the continents. NOR PAX, the North 

 Pacific Experiment, is an effort to understand the 

 interrelationships, for instance, between sea-surface tem- 

 peratures and long-term weather (or short-term climate). 

 This research could lead not only to improved understand- 

 ing, but to prediction of climate as well. (CCL) 



Pastures in the Sea (5 minutes)-Food chains in the sea, 

 like food chains on land, depend on plants to use the Sun's 

 energy to convert chemical nutrients into food. To 

 understand, and perhaps better use, the resources of the 

 sea, we have to understand its interlocking life cycles. 

 Science is looking at the beginning of the sea's food chain; 

 this film looks at the science. (RHR) (AEF) (KFP) 



Rivers of the Sea (52 minutes)-A sea-going expedition 

 leaves Tahiti to gain a better understanding of the oceans 

 and their chemistry — knowledge that is vital in preventing 

 ocean pollution, improving commercial fishing, and 

 understanding climatic conditions. It joins scientists 

 working at sea and in land-based laboratories in Cali- 

 fornia, New York, and Miami. This expedition is one of 

 the largest and most concentrated oceanographic surveys 

 since the voyage of the Challenger 100 years ago. (RHR) 



Science and the Salmon Fishery (6 minutes)-Commer- 

 cial fishermen have learned by guess and by gosh where to 

 catch fish, but they often do not know why the fish are 

 where they are. A scientific experiment off the Oregon 

 coast has turned up explanations and, with the coopera- 



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