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State institutions engaged in ocean ographic research requiring such 

 scientific ships, with preference to such agencies and institutions 

 which liave engaged in marine research prior to the act. Section 7 

 also provides that the research ships authorized to be constructed by 

 the Maritmie Commission are in addition to other ships authorized in 

 other sections of the act. 



12. Establish with the National Science Foundation a program of 

 education and training in the marine sciences for selected students 

 or employees beginning not lower than the senior level of under- 

 graduate school and continuing through not more than 4 years of 

 graduate training and research in such sciences. The Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey now assigns a very Imiited number of its personnel 

 to receive advanced instruction and training in fields of oceanography 

 applicable to the duties of the agency, and has aspirations to expand 

 this education program. 



The importance of expanding oceanogi'aphic activities of the Coast 

 and Geodetic Survey, and of greatly enlarging Weather Bureau re- 

 search on the high seas, was emphasized earlier in this report. 



A continued, coordinated, and cumulative effort by agencies within 

 the Department of Commerce will strengthen that Department's 

 ability to accomplish its statutory functions. 



Committee amendments to section 7 



Page 21, line 9, in the date given strike "June" and insert "January". 



SECTION 8 



Appropriations would be authorized by this section in such sums as 

 may be necessary to accomplish the follo\ving: 



1. Construction by the Coast and Geodetic Survey of 10 survey 

 ships displacing from 500 to 2,000 or more tons. 



2. Operations of these ships during the 10-year life of the program. 



3. Construction of shore facilities for processing and evaluating 

 oceanographic data obtained by the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and 

 construction of an operations base for ships of the agency on both 

 the east and west coasts of the United States. 



4. Development, construction, or acquisition of equipment and 

 instruments to meet engineering and scientific needs of the Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey in oceanographic research. This would include wave 

 measuring equipment, systems for reduction of data, manned and 

 unmanned buoys for automatic continuous oceanographic recording, 

 fixed observation stations in coastal waters to determine the short 

 term, seasonal, and yearly changes in waves, currents, tides, tempera- 

 tures, hydrography and salinities, vessel positioning and acoustic 

 equipment, measuring devices for direct density and radioactivity, 

 telemetering devices, current devices, tide gages, underwater cameras 

 and television, seismic equipment, automatic continuous biological 

 sampling devices, precision salinometers, precision echo sounders, 

 towed and fixed temperature recorders, magnetometers, gravimeters, 

 and other instruments and laboratory equipment the agency may 

 require for oceanographic research. 



5. Operations of Coast and Geoc etic Survey shore facilities and 

 coastal bases. 



