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had a meteorologist aboard, carrying out a part of their upper atmo- 

 sphere program, and contributing immeasurable to the success of the 

 whole venture by his careful surface weather analysis and predictions. 

 The Weather Bureau was sufficiently pleased with this cooperative 

 venture so that they are doubling the meteorological program aboard 

 the Pioneer this season. The Geological Survey and the Bureau of 

 Commercial Fisheries sent people. The University of Hawaii was 

 involved. These are all listed in my statement, without going into 

 details. 



There was also aboard from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 

 a radioehemist, supported by the AEC. However, the really exciting 

 part of the Pioneer operation, insofar as the Ocean Survey Advisory 

 Panel was concerned, is that it represented a start on this oceanwide 

 survey program. For the first time, a ship with good navigational 

 control — in this case, loran-C — -was able to carry out a systematic 

 grid-type survey on the deep sea, hundreds of miles from the nearest 

 land. 



I have, sir, and will leave again for your consideration, a copy of 

 the paper of Rear Adm. H. Arnold Karo, the Director of the Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey, his paper presented before the Institute of 

 Navigation meeting in San Diego last January. 



This paper summarizes in considerable detail exactly what went on 

 in this first attempt at oceanwide surveys. I will leave this, too, for 

 your consideration. 



The Rehoboth of the Hydrographic Office this past year, in connec- 

 tion with military surveys in the central Pacific, carried out also a 

 multifaceted operation very similar to that of the Pioneer, but with 

 much wider spacing of lines. The Rehoboth's operations also in- 

 cluded magnetometer and hydrographic operations and oceanographic 

 station operations, in addition to cooperative studies of phytoplankton 

 productivity with personnel from the University of Hawaii and special 

 meteorological observations made for the Weather Bureau. 



I would like to leave with you, Mr. Chairman, both a summary of 

 this operation of the Hydrographic Office's, plus a copy of a letter 

 from the Hydrographic Office sent to various Government agencies 

 and private institutions announcing this survey in advance, and in- 

 viting cooperation of the other Government agencies and the private 

 institutions. It is exactly the type of interagency cooperation that 

 the Survey Panel is encouraging. 



The Coast Guard's operations in the Bering Sea are another good 

 example of this sort of cooperation fostered by the ICO Ocean Sur- 

 veys Panel. This coming year, the Northwind will be doing coopera- 

 tive oceanographic work with the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, as 

 part of the International Fur Seal Patrol. She will be operating in the 

 Bering Sea, and her operations will include the making of oceano- 

 graphic profiles across the Oyashio Current. She will later be work- 

 ing farther north with personnel from the Navy Electronics Labora- 

 tory. To show you how this cooperation works, a recent letter by 

 Dr. K. O. Emory at the University of Southern California expressed 

 an interest in obtaining bottom samples from the Bering Sea in con- 

 junction with some study he is carrying out with a Japanese marine 

 geologist. Not only will he be able to have samples from the North- 

 wind's operations, but also from the Bering Sea survey of the Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey ship Surveyor doing some hydrographic and 



