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(b) Plans of cruises of international interest projected for the future should also be submitted 

 together with information on berths available for scientists of other countries; likewise 

 scientists prepared to carry out work at sea should submit details of their availability for 

 future cruises; 



(c) Reports on the general results of all cruises should be forwarded expeditiously as the 

 cruises are completed; 



(d) Descriptions of newly- developed instruments and techniques should also be forwarded to 

 the Office of Oceanography of Unesco. 



2. (a) The oceanography newsletter which the Office of Oceanography of Unesco proposes to 

 publish should contain a brief summary of the information mentioned above; 



(b) The newsletter should be reproduced by any rapid and economical method of publication 

 and sent as quickly as possible to mailing lists furnished by each member country. 



3. The Secretariat of the IOC in consultations with the Bureau of the Commission, SCOR and 

 other appropriate agencies, should consider the feasibility and practicality of the creation of the 

 international pool of scientific equipment and study means whereby such a pool can be created. 

 Such a pool might be created even on a partial basis in time for the International Indian Ocean 

 Expedition. 



4. Member States should be urged to distribute scientific papers and abstracts to the mailing 

 lists referred to in paragraph 2 (b) above. 



RESOLUTION 11 



STANDARDIZATION AND INTERCALIBRATION OF OCEANOGRAPfflC 

 METHODS AND EQUIPMENT 



The Commission 



Recognizing that there is a pressing need for a co-ordinated programme that ensures that oceano- 

 graphic observations will be more meaningful and useful for oceanographic research in general, 



Recognizing further that this can be accomplished by a carefully planned programme which in- 

 cludes to varying degrees the standardization, intercalibration and absolute calibration of 

 observational methods and equipment, and that the formulation of such a programme should be 

 carried out by those scientists most intimately involved in the collection and use. of such data, 



Convinced that in order to have comparable results this will probably involve some standardiza- 

 tion of methods and equipment but equally convinced that world-wide standardization of all oceano- 

 graphic techniques is not now desirable, 



Aware that such a programme should proceed in an orderly fashion so that the final results will 



be the assurance that accurate oceanographic data can be mutually exchanged among oceanographers, 



Further aware of the excellent work in this field being carried out by IAPO, ICESandlCSEM, and of the 

 recent intercalibrations at Honolulu and aboard "Vityaz" and "Gascoyne sponsored jointly by 

 SCOR and Unesco, 



Requests SCOR to undertake the following task: 



Appoint as soon as possible working groups for the purpose of examining, summarizing, and 

 criticizing the present oceanographic methods and equipment in common use to determine where 

 these methods or equipment do not provide universally usable, accurate data, or where such data 

 cannot presently be utilized to the utmost, and to recommend by report to the IOC appropriate 



