CONTENTS 



WITNESSES 



Page 



January 25, 1996: 



Dr. Robert D. Ballard, Senior Scientist, Director, Center of Marine Explo- 

 ration, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 11 



Dr. Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences 23 



Dr. Neal Lane, Director, National Science Foundation 39 



Dr. D. James Baker, Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, and 

 Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 

 United States Department of Commerce 48 



Admiral Jeremy M. Boorda, USN, Chief of Naval Operations, United 

 States Department of the Navy 68 



Rear Admiral Paul G. Gaffney, II, USN, Commander, Naval Meteorologi- 

 cal and Oceanographic Command, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi .... 85 



Dr. Robert A. Froscn, Center for Science & International Affairs, John 



F. Kennedy School, Harvard University 113 



Admiral James D. Watkins, USN (Ret.), Consortium for Oceanographic 

 Research and Education 120 



APPENDDC I 



Statement submitted for the record by Congressman George Brown 187 



Statement submitted for the record by Congressman Soloman Ortiz 190 



APPENDIX II 



Response for the record by Admiral Jeremy Boorda to a question submitted 



by Congressman Farr 193 



Addfitional information supplied for the record by Admiral Jeremy Boorda 



(indicated by page in the text on which the information was requested): 



Page 172 195 



Page 179 196 



Letter from Vice President Al Gore submitted by Congressman Curt Weldon, 



referred to on page 148 199 



Letter from Senator Trent Lott submitted by Congressman Curt Weldon, 



referrred to on page 148 200 



APPENDIX III 



Statements from witnesses at the joint field briefing of the Subcommittee 

 on Military Research and Development of the Committee on National Secu- 

 rity; the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans of the Committee 

 on Resources; and the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment of the 

 Committee on Science held at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode 

 Island on January 22, 1996: 

 Dr. Margaret Leinen, Dean, Graduate School of Oceanography, and Vice 

 Provost for Marine Programs, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, 



Rhode Island 201 



Mr. Jeffrey Callahan, Director, Ocean Technology Center, University of 



Rhode Island, Narragansett, Rhode Island 206 



Dr. Peter H. Cressy, Chancellor, University of Massachusetts, Dart- 

 mouth 209 



Dr. Mark D. Gould, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Roger 



Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island 219 



Dr. James Luyten, Associate Director of Research, Woods Hole Oceano- 

 graphic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 223 



(V) 



