College of Agricultural and Mechanical Arts in 1949, an M.S. from 

 the University of California in 1952, and a Ph.D. (oceanography) 

 from the University of California in 1959. In 1949 at the Scripps 

 Institution of Oceanography he successively was assistant oceano- 

 grapher and junior research geophysicist. He came to the Office 

 of Naval Research in 1955 as Head Oceanographer , Geophysics 

 Branch, and became Head of the Geophysics Branch in 1959. He 

 served in the Navy from 1942-46. In 1958 he received the Civilian 

 Meritorious Service Award of the U. S. Navy. 



He is a member of the American Miscellaneous Society, 

 Committee of the National Academy of Sciences -- National Research 

 Council, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 the Research Society of America, the Geochemical Society, and the 

 American Geophysical Union. 



His principal interests include physical oceanography and 

 geophysics, particularly the measurement and interpretation of 

 heat flow through the ocean floor, and factors contributing to our 

 understanding of the nature of the earth's crust. 



REAR ADMIRAL DONALD McGREGOR MORRISON, U. S. Coast 

 Guard, Washington 25, D. C. 



Admiral Morrison was born December 4, 1906, at Glens Falls, 

 New York. He attended the Universities of Chattanooga (Tenn. ) and 

 Washington (Seattle), and was graduated from the U. S. Coast 

 Guard Academy at New London, Connecticut, and commissioned 

 Ensign on May 15, 1931. Through subsequent promotions he 

 attained the rank of Rear Admiral on February 1, 1961. 



He served aboard the cutters Snohomish , Tallapoosa , Gre- 

 sham, Seneca, Pontchartrain (1936 and 1937 on the International 

 Ice Patrol), and Northland. During 1942 and 1943 he was assigned 

 to the Cooper-Bessemer Corporation, Grove City, Pennsylvania, 

 as machinery inspector for 180-foot buoy tenders, and the" Marine 

 Iron and Shipbuilding and Zenith Dredge Companies, Duluth, 

 Minnesota, to supervise the installation of machinery, tests, and 

 trial runs. He was assigned Coast Guard representative in the 

 Office of Inspector of Machinery, U. S. Navy, at the Fairbanks- 

 Morse Corporation, and the training of personnel. He then became 

 executive officer of the USS Cambria (APA-36) in the Pacific war 

 campaigns of Majuro in the Marshalls, Kwajelein, and Eniwetok. 

 In 1944 he helped place the USS General M. C. Meigs (AP-116) in 

 commission and served as engineer officer in the Mediterranean, 

 and later served as training and then as executive officer at Coast 

 Guard Training Station, Groton, Connecticut. In 1945-46 he served 



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