in obtaining time-series, oceanographic observations. 



DR. JULIUS ROCKWELL, JR., Coordinator, Government-Industry 

 Oceanographic Instrumentation Symposium, Bureau of Commercial 

 Fisheries, Washington, D. C. 



Dr. Rockwell was born in Taunton, Massachusetts, July 25, 

 1918, was graduated by the University of Michigan with a B.S. 

 (zoology) in 1940, served in the United States Navy from 1940-46, 

 mainly in shipboard engineering and deck capacities, and is now a 

 Commander in the Naval Research Reserve (inactive). From 1946- 

 54 he was employed by the Fisheries Research Institute of the 

 University of Washington in various studies of Alaska salmon in 

 Southeastern Alaska, in Bristol Bay, and on the high seas. He 

 received his Ph.D. (fisheries) from the University of Washington 

 (Seattle) in 1956. He is presently developing and evaluating auto- 

 matic fish counting devices and an automatic scale reader. He 

 has worked in a joint Air Force - Navy operations research prob- 

 lem, and has participated in the Union College Character Research 

 Project as a local research coordinator. Work has included human 

 engineering, experimiental psychology (of fishes), and equipment 

 design. 



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

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

 graphy, the American Fisheries Society, and the American Insti- 

 tute of Fisheries Research Biologists. 



MURRAY H. SCHEFER, Oceanographer , ASW Division, Bureau of 

 Naval Weapons, Washington 25, D. C. 



Mr. Schefer was born January 1, 1918, at Hartford, Connecti- 

 cut. He was graduated in 1938 with a B.S. from the College of the 

 City of New York. In 1940 he received his M.S. from the State 

 University of Iowa where he majored in inorganic analytical chem- 

 istry. He served in the Army Air Force from April 1941 to January 

 1946. The latter half of this period he served as an aerial navigator 

 and navigation instructor. He is presently in the active reserve as 

 a MATS navigator. 



In November of 1948 he joined the U. S. Navy Hydrographic 

 Office. Dioring employ at the Hydrographic Office, he was assoc- 

 iated with the oceanographic survey program. He served as Head, 

 Oceanographic Survey Branch, and later as Deputy Director, 

 Marine Surveys Division. In June 1961 he assumed his present 

 assignment with the Bureau of Naval Weapons. 



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