194 EFFECTIVENESS OF THE COMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY 



Dr. Stewart. I am Chairman of the Ocean Survey Advisory Panel 

 of the Interagency Committee on Oceanography. 



The first page and a half of my statement summarizes the history 

 of this particular Panel, and then lists the members. 



You will notice, or you have noticed — and I am going now to the 

 prepared statement — that many of these names are repeated on the 

 other panels. This, I think, is part of the strength of this 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 these panels which is essential to the efficient operation of 

 the whole. I think this is an important point to make. 



The panel, as do other panels, has a technical feed in to the ICO 

 during the planning stages of the national oceanographic program 

 for the coining fiscal year. We also have, as have the other panels, 

 prepared each year budget summaries of the proposed agency work 

 in our particular field, by doing this at several points during the annual 

 budget cycle, the ICO has been able to keep tabs on how budgetary 

 support for the national program is progressing. 



Although these two panel activities require considerable time and 

 effort on the part of panel members, they are primarily staff functions 

 to the ICO. The real raison d'etre of the Survey Panel is, I feel, (1) 

 the development of interagency survey programs and plans at the 

 national level, and (2) the initiation and fostering of operational 

 cooperation, what I like to call cooperation at the "wet deck" level. 



With your permission, Mr. Chairman, I would like to expand these 

 two points a bit, and in so doing, point out specific examples of the 

 accomplishments of this particular panel. One of the first tasks of 

 the Ocean Survey Advisory Panel was to prepare a national program 

 for the systematic investigation of the world's oceans. This was a 

 monumental task. 



To accomplish it, we appointed an ad hoc working group composed 

 of representatives of the agencies most concerned and chaired by Capt. 

 C. N. G. Hendrix of the Hydrographic Office. At that time, I was 

 of the Hydrographic Office. The program went through many re- 

 visions, as a program such as this always does. It contained at its 

 stage of maximum thickness chapters on navigational control, survey 

 needs of all the various agencies as of the nongovernmental oceano- 

 graphic community. It even presented silhouettes of the various 

 oceanographic ships that might be involved in such surveys. 



Subsequently, the written version of the U.S. 



Mr. Bauer. Mr. Chairman, may I interrupt? 



Would you submit this for committee study, please? 



Dr. Stewart. I have a copy of it here, Mr. Bauer. It is very fat. 

 It is only a draft from which the final one was worked. This was 

 merely a working paper of this group, Mr. Bauer. I will submit it, 

 if you wish, but I also submit that this was merely the work of an ad 

 hoc group, it was not approved by the panel, and the final document of 

 it I have here, and will indeed submit this, if this is agreeable with the 

 committee. 



Mr. Dingell. That would be acceptable. 



(The document will be found in subcommittee files.) 



Dr. Stewart. This written version here that I have has been 

 transmitted to the ICO, and submitted to the National Academy of 



