50 ADVANCEMENT OF MARINE SCIENCES 



Training would be for the purpose of preparing selected students to 

 become professional physical, biological, chemical, and geological 

 oceanographers and would be extended to students beginning not 

 lower than the senior level of undergi'aduate school and continuing 

 through not more than 4 years of graduate training. 



Committee amendments to section 4 



Page 9, hue 6, strike the figure "$8,250,000" and substitute the 

 figure ''$16750,000". The authorization in this subsection of section 

 4 is for construction of shore facilities for marine research. 



The amount of $8,250,000 was recommended in the original report 

 of the Committee on Oceanography, which has since revised its esti- 

 mate of needs. 



Dr. Roger Revelle, Du-ector of the Scripps Institution of Ocea- 

 nography, who represented the Committee on Oceanography, of which 

 he is a member, at hearings on S. 901, testified that the Committee on 

 Oceanography had grossly underestimated the amount needed for 

 new marine research laboratories when it prepared its report. He 

 stated : 



In our report we simply thought about what would be 

 needed to provide laboratories for the additional people to 

 man the additional ships. 



What we overlooked was the fact that very little oceano- 

 graphic building has been done during the last 20 years. 

 The result is that both the major and minor, or the bigger 

 and smaller laboratories, are now very nmch overcrowded. 

 It is literally impossible for most of them to expand at all in 

 terms of people without additional space. People are sitting 

 in each other's laps. 



Dr. C. P. Idyll, chairman of the Department of Marine Sciences 

 and chah'man of the Division of Fisheries of the University of Miami, 

 testified : 



We find ourselves hanging from the rafters. We need 

 immediately 10,000 more square feet to train the people 

 that we have. 



Dr. Donald W. Pritchard, director, Chesapeake Bay Institute, 

 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Aid., told the Commerce 

 Committee at hearings on S. 901 : 



Our present chemistry and biology laboratory space is less 

 than one-third the 6,150 square feet of such space which is 

 required for the program we are now capable of pursuing. 

 We have no laboratory space which can be utilized for 

 graduate student research. 



Dr. Richard H. Fleming, executive officer of the Department of 

 Oceanography, University of Washington, pointed out to the Com- 

 merce (Committee during the hearuigs that despite the greatty in- 

 creased needs for oceanographic training and research the Department 

 is occupying the laboratory building that was provided the University 

 under a grant of the Rockefeller Foundation 30 years ago. 



The Committee on Oceanography has recently undertaken a review 

 of its 1959 report with relation to laboratory needs, and although this 

 report Jias not been completed it has reported to the Commerce 



