Captain Hendrix, born April 8, 1916, in Maryland, was 

 connmissioned and graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy with 

 a B.S. in 1939. He attended Scripps Institution of Oceanography 

 and in 1951 received an M.S. in oceanography. He has served on 

 battleships, destroyers, and submarines; he saw service in World 

 War II and in the Korean War. He has served in the Office of 

 Naval Research, with Commander Transport Division 13, with 

 Commander Amphibious Squadron 5, with Commander Mine Force 

 Pacific, as Commander Submarine Division 61, with the U. S. 

 Navy Hydrographic Office, and with Joint Task Force EIGHT. 



Captain Hendrix is considered an expert in undersea warfare 

 and is the senior naval field officer oceanographer in the Navy. 

 In addition to serving and commanding submarines during the past 

 22 years, he has studied nuclear physics and atomic power plants, 

 participated in one of the first extended underwater cruises in a 

 snorkel submarine, done extensive research in submarine opera- 

 tions under the polar ice cap, and participated in AEC/DOD tests 

 during atomic detonations in the Pacific. 



He has the following decorations: Two Silver Stars with Oak 

 Leaf Cluster, Bronze Star with "V, " Navy Commendation Ribbon, 

 Army Distinguished Unit Badge, Viet Nam Presidential Unit Cita- 

 tion "Ribbon of Friendship, " Philippine Presidential Unit Citation 

 Badge, and service ribbons for World War II, Korean, and UN 

 with battle stars. 



DR. WOODROW C. JACOBS, Director, National Oceanographic 

 Data Center, Washington 25, D. C. 



Dr. Jacobs was born September 11, 1908, in Pasadena, Cali- 

 fornia. He obtained both his B.A. in 1930 and his Ph.D. in 1948 

 at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his M.S. in 

 oceanography and meteorology in 1934 at the University of Sou- 

 thern California. From 1931-36 he was a meteorologist at the 

 U. S. Weather Bxireau. From 1936-41 he was a forecaster at 

 Pomona and assisted at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. 

 He then became Chief Civilian Meteorologist for Headquarters, 

 U. S. Army Air Force from 1942-46, and then Head, Climatolo- 

 gical Branch, U. S. Weather Bureau, Washington, D. C, from 

 1946-48. He served as Director of Climatology for the Air Force 

 Air Weather Sxirvey from 1948-61 which he left to assume his 

 present duties. 



He has been a lecturer in Oceanography and Meteorology of 

 the Graduate School of the U. S. Department of Agriculture from 

 1942 to the present time, at the Massachusetts Institute of 



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