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(a) Shape, structui?e and composition of the sea floor and the coast, and 

 their changes. 



(b) Chemical constituents of the ocean and their budget. 



(c) Scales of motion in the ocean, the dynamics of oc«an cvin'ent systems and 

 surface boundary processes. 



(d) Ocean life and its dynamics. 



2. The activities suggested herein, and the organizational structure and re- 

 lationships suggested, are not intended to duplicate or replace responsibilities 

 or activities of the various organizations concerned vrith the oceans, but to 

 complement them. The broadened IOC would work with existing United Nations and 

 other international agencies as appropriate, drawing on their experiences and re- 

 sources, as well as In turn assisting them. The strengthened IOC programme to- 

 gether with these co-operative activities should produce a net resxilt greater 

 than the sum of the parts for the benefit of both the member governments and the 

 agencies concerned. 



3- IOC should be responsible for planning and co-ordinating certain services, 

 Inclxidlng such activities as an enlarged data exchange function and IGOSS. 



k. To simplify data management procedures, IOC should arrange with ICSU to as- 

 sume responsibility for establishing the guidelines for the world data centres 

 (Oceanography), with the understanding that close lOC/lCSU co-ordination and con- 

 sultation will be maintained via SCOR. The IOC Working Group on Data Exchange 

 should examine the problems associated with accelerating and broadening the ex- 

 change of marine science information - Including listings, indices, retrieval 

 ••Fvices - at the international level and improving its availability and useful- 

 ness to all interested nations. The Working Group should explore the possible 

 r6le that IOC, world data centres, and national centres to serve i?eglonal data 

 needs, might play in this area. Toward these ends personnel with expertise in 

 marine data management and information retrieval should be added to the staff of 

 the IOC Secretariat, 



5. Ihe IOC should develop a programme of action leading to recommended standard 

 international methodology for collection and analysis of ocean data vrtilch lend 

 themselves to such methodology. The IOC might consider the feasibility of (a) 

 arranging for various national fausilities to develop such methodology and (b) 

 publishing an IOC series of manuals on recommended standard methods. 



6. IOC responsibility for mutual assistance should be strengthened by according 

 It responsibility for the programme now situated in the Uhesco Office of Oceano- 

 graphy and the UTTDP- funded programmes on oceanography currently being adminis- 

 trated by Uhesco Office of Oceanography. To assist the IOC in performing this 

 strengthened role it is recommended that personnel be added to the IOC Secreta- 

 riat to deal with this programme. 



7. IOC should assume responsibility for Unesco's education and training pro- 

 gramme In the marine sciences and provide for its further development and ex- 

 pansion. Consideration should be given to developing programmes in both tech- 

 nical assistance and education and training which contribute to the marine re- 

 source development aspirations of the developing countries and at the saime time 



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