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bility adequate to meet botli present and future national needs) includes a 

 .subh'tantial academic research component. This is of special importance and 

 has received Council study to be sure that its growth is consistent with both 

 needs for additional knowledge and a new opportunity for resarch associated 

 with increasing graduate student interest in ocean-oriented programs." 



In 1958, there were 19 small university oceanographic laboratories; and six 

 large institutions (with budgets larger than $4.">0.000). In 19(.J3 their number 

 had increa.sed to eight large (the dividing point being a budget larger than 

 .$S(X).000) and 29 small laboratories. In the same period of time, government 

 laboratories increased from 35 to 43. Thus, private laboratories increased by 

 37%. with government laboratories increasing by 22.8%. The ICO "Program" 

 for fiscal year 1907 has the following to say about the growth of institutions 

 supported by NSF : ". . . the major growth in the support has been since fiscal 

 year 1958; that year NSF made approximately 80 grants at 38 universities and 

 scientific institutions. Today (1967), the Foundation .sponsors well over 350 

 I>rograms at 124 universities and institutions engaged in the study of the oceans 

 and the Great Lakes." This means, of course, an increase in the number of 

 grants by 338% and in the number of institutions supported in oceanography 

 by 226% in the past ten years. 



The growing position of the profit-making research organizations should be 

 noted. Their share of the federal obligations for basic research has grown 

 from 15.5% in 1963 to 20.9% in 1965. This share probably has increased dispro- 

 portionately in 1966-1967, in view of the emphasis being placed on the role of 

 industry. 



TABLE I.— COMPARISON OF TOTAL FEDERAL OCEANOGRAPHY; NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM; AND 

 BASIC RESEARCH EXPENDITURES, FISCAL YEARS 1963-67 



Source: PSACPOO; ICO national oceanographic program, fiscal year 1965. 



TABLE II.— NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM AND BASIC RESEARCH EXPENDITURES AS PERCENTAGES OF 

 TOTAL FEDERAL OCEANOGRAPHY EXPENDITURES, FISCAL YEAR 1953-67 

 PERCENT OF FEDERAL OCEANOGRAPHY EXPENDITURES 



