to enable IOC to convene international scientific workshops to consider and, 

 when appropriate, recommend new projects for the IDOE. IOC has recognized 

 IDOE as an important part of its long-term program and has endorsed all 

 NSF-sponsored major projects as key elements of IOC's overall IDOE program. 

 We are looking forward to continuing oceanographic research efforts 

 under IDOE that place increasing emphasis on international aspects of the 

 program. We hope that in the years to come the IDOE will be remembered as a 

 program that benefited all mankind and set a pattern for many other inter- 

 national ventures to follow. 



Feenan D. Jennings, Head 

 Office for the International 

 Decade of Ocean Exploration 



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