State Department of Fisheries as a research biologist. In 1945 

 Mr. McKernan became Director of Research for the Fish Commis- 

 sion of Oregon and served in that capacity until 1952 when he was 

 appointed Assistant Director of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

 Pacific Oceanic Fishery Investigations in Hawaii. From 1948-1949 

 he was a teaching fellow at the University of Washington. After hold- 

 ing the position, following 1952, of Administrator of Alaska Commer- 

 cial Fisheries, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Mr. McKernan was 

 appointed in 1957 to his present post. 



He is a member of the American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, the American Society of Limnology and Oceanogra- 

 phy, the American Fisheries Society, and the American Institute 

 of Fisheries Research Biologists. 



Mr. McKernan has specialized in fisheries management, marine 

 biology, tuna biology, shellfish, and oceanography. 



He is a member of the Interagency Committee on Oceanography 

 and is Chairman of its Panel on Equipment, Facilities, and Instru- 

 mentation. 



DR. HUGH J. McLELLAN, Professor, Department of Oceanography 

 and Meteorology, Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, 

 College Station, Texas. 



Dr. McLelian was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, on 

 March 16, 1921, and he received his B.S. in 1941 and his M.S. in 

 1947, both at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 

 1956 he completed his Ph.D. (physical oceanography) at the Univer- 

 sity of California at Los Angeles. He was a junior physicist of the 

 National Research Council of Canada from 1941-1942, then entered 

 the Canadian Army where he served until 1945 conning out as Cap- 

 tain. From 1947-1956 he served as an associate oceanographer of 

 the Atlantic Oceanographic Group for the Fisheries Research Board 

 of Canada, and from 1956-1957 as a senior scientist. Since 1957 

 he has been a research scientist of the Agricultural and Mechani- 

 cal College of Texas. 



Dr. McLelian is a member of the American Society of Limno- 

 logy and Oceanography, the American Geophysical Union, and the 

 Canadian Association of Physicists. His main interest is physical 

 oceanography. 



DR. ARTHUR E. MAXWELL, Head, Geophysics Branch, Office of 

 Naval Research, Washington 25, D. C. 



Dr. Maxwell was born in Maywood, California, on April 11, 

 1925. His educational background includes a B.S. from New Mexico 



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