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Mr. Dingell. Dr. Harris B. Stewart, Jr., Chairman, Ocean Surveys 

 Advisory Panel. 



Doctor, the committee welcomes you, and thanks you for your 

 courtesy in being present. 



STATEMENT OF DR. HARRIS B. STEWART, JR., CHAIRMAN OF 

 THE OCEAN SURVEYS ADVISORY PANEL, INTERAGENCY COM- 

 MITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY 



Dr. Stewart. Thank you, sir. T think in view of the lateness of 

 the hour, Mr. Chairman, with your permission, I will somewhat 

 abridge my prepared statement, if this is legitimate procedure. 



Mr. Dingell. This would be appropriate, Doctor. 



(The prepared statement of Dr. Stewart follows:) 



Statement of Dr. Harris B. Stewart, Jr., Chairman of the Ocean Surveys 

 Advisory Panel, Interagency Committee on Oceanography 



I am Dr. Harris B. Stewart, Jr., chief oceanographer of the Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey of the U.S. Department of Commerce and a Deputy Assistant Director of 

 that Bureau. However, I am here today in neither of these capacities, but rather 

 as Chairman of the Ocean Surveys Advisory Panel of the Interagency Committee 

 on Oceanography. The "Surveys Panel," as we call it, is an outgrowth of the 

 old Task Group B, a working group of the Subcommittee on Oceanography of the 

 Federal Council for Science and Technology, the predecessor of the present ICO. 

 When the Federal Council determined that the subcommittee should be a per- 

 manent committee of the Council in early 1960, the former Task Group B became 

 the Ocean Survevs Advisory Panel, and our first meeting was held on June 15, 

 1960. At that meeting, Adin. Charles Pierce (U.S.C. &G.S.) was elected Chair- 

 man, and on his retirement the following year, I assumed the chairmanship of this 

 Panel. The present Panel membership includes representatives from 10 different 

 agencies: The Atomic Energy Commission, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, 

 Coast and Geodetic Survey, Coast Guard, Geological Survey, Maritime Admin- 

 istration, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanography, National 

 Science Foundation, Navy, and the Weather Bureau. For the record, I have 

 listed the various representatives: 



Harris B. Stewart, Jr., U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Chairman. 



Jack C. Thompson, Weather Bureau. 



Capt. Max G. Ricketts, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, alternate. 



Lt. Comdr. J. A. Adelman, Navy Hydrographic Office. 



Comdr. R. J. Alexander, Operations, Navy, alternate. 



Dr. A. E. Maxwell, Office of Naval Research. 



Joseph E. King, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. 



Howard Eckles, Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, alternate. 



Capt. E. V. Carlson, U.S. Coast Guard. 



Lt. Comdr. R. P. Dinsmore, U.S. Coast Guard, alternate. 



Dr. C. O'D. Iselin, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, observer for 

 the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanography. 



R. C. Vetter, National Academy, of Sciences Committee on Oceanography 

 alternate. 



Vito Russo, Maritime Administration, observer. 



James Trumbull, U.S. Geological Survey, observer. 



Dr. D. D. Keck, National Science Foundation, observer. 



Dr. John Lyman, National Science Foundation, alternate. 



Dr. Irvin E. Wallen, Atomic Energy Commission, observer. 



Dr. Woodrow Jacobs, National Oceanographic Data Center, observer. 

 You will notice as you hear from the other panel chairmen that mair of these 

 names are repeated on the other panels. This, I feel, is part of the strength of 

 the ICO panel structure. It does mean that several of us spend a good deal of 

 time at panel meetings and carrying out the work of these panels, but, by the 

 same token, it also means that there is the cross-fertilization between the panels 

 that is an essential to the efficient operation of the whole. This means, for 

 example, that those working with the ocean surveys program are also completely 



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