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Table 4. — List of oceanographic research activities according to program and scope 

 of geographical activities — Continued 



1 Heavy use of radioactive techniques. 



2 Meteorological. 



3 Government funds also from BuShlps, BuWeapons, and Air Force. 



• Applied research concerned with sea fishing studies, including the ecology, and thus with certain aspects 

 of the physical and chemical environments. However, the research is focused on its relationship to biological 

 content of the sea. 



• Coastal engineering. 



« Coastal in nerltic province. 



' Structural and mechanical properties of sea lee. 



8 Considerable emphasis on study of surface wave phenomenon. 



• Kmphasis on accumulation of radioactive materials by fishery organisms and eflect of accumulation on 

 seafood resources. 



'1 Utilized for teaching by Louisiana State University. 

 " Concerned with sport fishing. 

 '2 Seakeeplng of ships. 



Source: Various data collected by author. 



Any classification of these laboratories in finer detail would reveal 

 a rich variety in programs, facilities and points of view. There is 

 probably no typical oceanographic research organization. However, 

 for the reader less familiar with this field, details of one — the Woods 

 Hole Oceanographic Institution — are cited to add a necessary dimen- 

 sion to the previously mentioned list of statistics. These details 

 have been extracted from a statement of Paul M. Fye, Director of 

 Woods Hole." 



The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution was founded in 1930 as a direct 

 result of a recommendation of a National Academy of Sciences' Committee on 

 Oceanography which had been studying the status of marine science in this 

 country for 2}^ years prior to the submission of its report in 1929. * * * It was 

 chartered to prosecute the study of oceanography in all its branches — to maintain 

 a lalioratory or laboratories, together with boats and equipment, and a school 

 for instruction in oceanography and allied subjects. We are a small research 

 institution with a staff of 1.30 technically trained and approximate!}^ 300 regular 

 employees. In the summertime our work is substantial!}^ increased by the 

 addition of about 125 people who are generally faculty members of universities, 

 graduate students, and college students. * * * Relatively few people are trained 

 in our universities as oceanographers, but mostly we recruit people with training 

 in fundamental disciplines such as chemistry, biology, phj'sics, mathematics, 



" "Oceanography in the U.S." Hearings before the Special Subcommittee on Oceanography of the 

 Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, Mar. 3 — July 14, 1959, pp. 265- 

 272. 



