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Admiral BOORDA. Yes, sir. Let me turn it over to Paul with the 

 specifics on the answer to that. 



Admiral Gaffney. Mr. Taylor, I think that your charge is really 

 going to be a major issue and a major goal for Admiral Watkins 

 with his National Ocean Leadership Council, is to figure out how 

 to market this information that we have. It's got to be a primary 

 goal of that coalescing of this group in a more formal way. 



I will mention that, as was mentioned earlier today, the World 

 Wide Web is going to be part of the solution. Everybody here is on 

 it. There's a move by the Office of Naval Research to re-establish 

 a bulletin board system that links oceanographers together. 



We have just in your district in the last couple of months, the 

 home page for the Naval Oceanographic Office has had 11,000 que- 

 ries. We count every query that comes in. 



So the word is getting out. 



The MEDEA group that we talked about before, a number of 

 cleared scientists, several of those people are from industry as well 

 and they are getting to see exactly what we do. 



So the word is getting out to them, to the oil industry and to 

 other folks that are interested in our kind of information. 



And I think an important point and something I mentioned in 

 the testimony is we need to infect the young folks in this country 

 with our capabilities and with our challenges so that they on their 

 own will be interested in coming and finding out what's going on. 



We need that because we need their talent in the future. We 

 want to infect them. 



So we have a little bit of a responsibility to education. Thereby, 

 getting on the Internet, the World Wide Web and getting our word 

 out is our responsibility to help do that. 



Dr. Ballard. I think picking up on that same note, I think 

 there's no excuse now, given the development of the information 

 highway and the distribution of information for people not to be 

 able to get information. 



I encourage all of the members here of the panel to not only look 

 at the distribution of data to specific organizations or specific insti- 

 tutions, but to the public at large. 



There is a proliferation of media organizations that are attempt- 

 ing to present information to the public in digestible fashion, to the 

 lay public. Certainly, I work a lot, for example, with the Navy and 

 with CHINFO to be able to do programming that can be presented 

 to the lay public through National Geographic or NOVA or other 

 forms of presentations. 



There's a tremendous opportunity that is emerging with the tele- 

 communication industry to present oceanographic information to 

 everybody in this country. I just would encourage my fellow psmel 

 members to think about how they would not only present it to their 

 peers, but how would they present it to the farmer in Kansas or 

 to the school child in Mississippi. 



And those opportunities are now here. It's a question of whether 

 the scientific community, the military, or the agencies are willing 

 to take the step to translate it into things that the average person 

 can understand. 



Mr. Weldon. Dr. Frosch? 



