Naval Weather Service, the Council on Environmental Quality, and 

 the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), has contributed 

 significantly to the global marine climatological information base 

 during 1972 by preparing and publishing baseline references, such 

 as the Environmental Guide for Seven U.S. Ports, Environmental 

 Guide for the U.S. Gulf Coast, and Marine Climatological Summary 

 (WMO Region for USA). NCC is currently archiving national data 

 buoy meteorological data in ship format. 



Except for certain water-resources-oriented data on water quality, 

 which are handled by NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service, 

 the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Geological Survey, 

 NOAA's National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) has the task 

 of moving the mountain of marine environmental data, and doing it 

 in ways that make it accessible and useful to a wide clientele. The 

 Environmental Data Service, which operates the data center, 

 continues to serve as lead agency for data management and 

 information services for IDOE projects. Last year, NODC acquired 

 the telecommunications hardware necessary to interface its 

 automated Research Program Management System disc to the IDOE 

 office. In 1972, EDS centers (NODC, NCC and the Center for 

 Experimental Design and Data Analysis (CEDDA)) provided abroad 

 spectrum of data flow, archival, and data management services for 

 IFYGL, including the development of an inventory system that 

 describes the various IFYGL data-collection projects. 



NODC has developed a system for the Corps of Engineers (COE) to 

 inventory data collected in Chesapeake Bay. A contract between 

 NODC and the Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences has been 

 initiated to provide a more comprehensive supplement to the initial 

 COE inventory for the Bay region. 



The Environmental Science Information Center (ESIC) of NOAA 

 is involved in a Selective Distribution Experiment (100 

 investigators) utilizing the developing Oceanic and Atmospheric 

 Science Information Service (OASIS), an automated, searchable, 

 subject-author-abstract system having great potential for serving 

 the ocean science and technology communities as an adjunct to EDS' 

 Environtal Data Index (ENDEX). ENDEX is, in part, a documented 

 data referral system, fully automated and searchable in an 

 interactive mode. Data file descriptions and documentation are 

 obtained from in-depth interviews by trained contract personnel. 

 Current contract efforts are focused on the Great Lakes, Chesapeake 

 Bay, and the New York Bight. 



Internationally, NODC broadened its data-acquisition efforts by 

 establishing or updating bilateral exchange agreements with 

 Australia, Chile, Ecuador, France, Mexico, and Thailand. By an 

 agreement between World Data Center A and the Indian Ocean 

 Biological Center, in Cochin, India, NODC keypunched the second 

 (and final) shipment of zooplankton volumes and taxonomy code 



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