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Mr. Dingell. I see. 



Dr. Stewart. Our Panel, us are the other Panels, are operation 

 Panels of the ICO, and are far and above merely information exchange 

 groups, sir. 



Mr. Dingell. Does your Panel actually establish broad policy as 

 to survey areas which should be investigated? 



Dr. Stewart. Yes, sir; it does this. 



Mr. Dingell. Does it have any authority to implement the broad 

 policy which it establishes? 



Dr. Stewart. As a panel? No. However, it does accomplish 

 the implementation of these things, by having the members of the 

 ICO return to their individual agencies and crank these plans into 

 their agency programs. 



I believe, sir, the tropical Atlantic investigation, which I covered 

 in my statement, is a typical example of this. This is a program 

 that was initiated within the ICO. The Government agencies agreed 

 that this needed doing, and the Government agencies themselves are 

 putting forth the ships and the equipment, and the manpower to do 

 this. 



Mr. Dingell. Has your Panel, or has the ICO established a long- 

 range program for oceanographic survey? 



Dr. Stewart. Yes, sir. This is included. 



Mr. Dingell. You have put that in. 



Dr. Stewart. This is included here. 



Mr. Dingell. Doctor, you have done a very fine job this morning. 

 Thank you very much. 



On behalf of the committee and the staff, thank you very much, 

 and if you will leave the information which you have, Mr. Bauer will 

 review it, and the staff will review it, and we will insert as much as we 

 appropriately can in the record. 



Dr. Stewart. It is voluminous. I apologize, but I wanted to be 

 sure that the data were available to your committee, sir. 



Mr. Dingell. I think that is the right course, and it is appreciated. 



Dr. B. C. Dees, chairman of the training and manpower. 



Mr. Abel. Mr. Chairman, Dr. Dees is unable to attend, due to 

 other hearing commitments. I would be glad to file his statement. 



Mr. Dingell. All right, I think that would be most appreciated 

 by the committee, and I am sure if there are any questions, we can 

 refer them to Dr. Dees. 



(The prepared statement of Dr. Dees follows:) 



Statement by Bowen C. Dees, Chairman, Manpower and Training Panel 

 of the Interagency Committee on Oceanography 



It is a great pleasure for me to appear before the committee to discuss the work 

 of the Manpower and Training Panel of the Interagency Committee on Ocean- 

 ography. Although this Panel is one of the more recently organized ones, I 

 believe you will agree that it has been given an important assignment. 



OBJECTIVES 



The Manpower and Training Panel of ICO has been concerned, first, with 

 securing a thorough understanding of th*> present and prospective situation with 

 respect to manpower in the field of oceanography. The Panel has reviewed the 

 available National Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanography and the 

 American Society of Limnology and Oceanography reports to determine their 

 implications for scientific manpower. It has further examined the manpower 

 implications in the national oceanographic program. The present supply of 



