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versity departments have more than their share of 

 trouble attracting oceanographers already in short 

 supply anyway and temperamentally more inter- 

 ested in research, particularly seagoing research, 

 than they are in teaching. They tend to go to the 

 great oceanographic institutions such as Woods 

 Hole and Scripps where research receives major 

 emphasis. It is a rare university which can combine 

 both types of facilities. They might produce still 



more if they retained more of their graduates in 

 teaching positions rather than losing them to re- 

 search, but this would produce an even greater 

 deficit of research oceanographers during the in- 

 terim. The best way to prime the educational pump 

 in oceanography is one of the subjects greatly in 

 need of study during the coming years and is a 

 high priority item for one of the panels of the 

 Interagency Committee on Oceanography. 



