PREFACE 



A new dimension in interagency cooperation 

 within the United States Government is represented 

 by the establishment of the National Oceanogrophic 

 Data Center (NODC). Its sponsors include those 

 agencies of government having a primary interest 

 in the marine environment; namely, the Department 

 of the Navy, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the 

 Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, the Weather Bureau, 

 the Atomic Energy Commission, and the Notional 

 Science Foundation. In addition to providing the 

 funds for operation of the Center, each agency is 

 represented on the Notional Oceanogrophic Data 

 Center Advisory Board which determines the opera- 

 tional policies of the Center. The scientific com- 

 munity is represented by two individuals appointed 

 by the Notional Academy of Sciences. 



The spirit of cooperation between agencies has 

 influenced the Data Center's relations with the 

 international scientific community as well. The 

 NODC has fostered exchange programs with many 

 nations; as of January 1962, data exchange with 

 one or more institutions in 1 8 countries and the 

 International Council for the Exploration of the Sea 

 (ICES) has been inaugurated. 



The NODC cordially extends an invitation to 

 all nations, institutions, agencies or individuals who 

 are active in the collection of all types of oceano- 

 grophic and marine environmental data to partici- 

 pate with us in o reciprocal data collection effort 

 that should prove to be beneficial to all concerned. 

 The Data Center will provide duplicate punch cards 

 • shore focihti.s a,, urgently required lo o^ listings of Contemporary data taken by institutions 



provide loborotory space for onoiys.s ond interpre- in rctum for doto prepared (coded) properly on log 



tot.on of doto or,d .o .,o,n new oceanogrophers sheets provided by NODC. The bosic doto forms 



An essential port of ttie stiore estoblisti- -ii i ■ j _i 



... ^, . , „ ,. r, . log sheets and instructions will be provided on 



ment is the new National Uceonogrophic Data \ ij f 



Center which will begin Its first full year of opera rcquest. All requests for marine environmental 



tion in 1962 This Center will moke available to doto Or information ond questions concerning 



the scientific community data collected throughout i-i. • lijl jj i 



oceanogrophic data processing should be addresed 



the world" 



to: Director, Notional Oceanogrophic Data Center, 



President John F Kennedy, Morch 29, 1961 WoshingtOn 25, D. C. 



