CONTENTS 



Preface ii 



Introduction iii 



Environmental Quality Program 1 



Geochemical Ocean Sections (GEOSECS) Study 1 



Studies of Baseline Data, Transport, and Biological Effects of Pollut- 

 ants in the Ocean 1 



Atlantic Project 2 



Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Project 5 



Pacific Project 6 



Environmental Forecasting Program 9 



Climate: Long-range Investigation, Mapping, and Prediction 



(CLIMAP) 9 



Mid-Ocean Dynamics Experiment (MODE) 9 



North Pacific Experiment (NORPAX) 11 



NOAA Projects 11 



Ships of Opportunity: 



Time-Series Expendable Bathythermographic Sections, Tropical 



and North Pacific Ocean 11 



Near-Surface Circulation Studies 12 



Air-Sea Interaction and Mixed Layer Project 12 



Circulation Studies — CICAR 12 



Seabed Assessment Program 14 



Surveys and Data Analysis 14 



USGS Unitedgeo I Surveys 16 



Leg 1, Bay of Campeche 16 



Leg 2, East Margin Yucatan Peninsula 16 



Leg 3, Eastern Greater Antilles 16 



Leg 4, Venezuela Continental Borderland 19 



Leg 5, Continental Margin of Liberia 19 



Leg 6, Trans-Atlantic Crossing West Africa to Virgin Islands 19 



NOAA Surveys and Data Analysis 19 



Pacific SEAMAP 19 



Trans-Atlantic Geotraverse (TAG) 20 



Caribbean-Atlantic Geotraverse (CAG) 22 



World's Seabed Manganese Deposits 22 



Seabed Assessment Bibliography 22 



Living Resources Program 24 



Appendix: National Marine Data Inventory (NAMDI) Summaries 24 



