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First, Dr. William J. Hargis, the director of tlie Virginia Institute 

 of Marine Science at Gloucester Point, Va. He will share with us some 

 of his views concerning the nature of scientific information that coastal 

 zone researchers must provide local management agencies before they 

 are able to make the kind of decisions required of them in the frame- 

 work of the democratic process. 



Dr. Hargis is a fortunate selection for this subject, because the 

 experience he brings to bear on it is drawn from three different per- 

 spectives, research, education, and adviser to the resource agencies of 

 the Commonwealth of Virginia. 



Next, it seems logical to call on Dr. Harris B. Stewart, Director of 

 the Atlantic Oceanographic Laboratories of the Environmental 

 Science Services Administration. Dr. Stewart will address himself to 

 the role of the Federal laboratory in the total scheme of coastal zone 

 management and development. 



Dr. Stewart can speak of these things not only as an onsite director 

 of the new^ research laboratory, but also as a man of substantial experi- 

 ence in questions of government policy on the Washington scene. 



Finally, our third panelist. Dr. Robert Abel, Director of the Office 

 of Sea-Grant Programs in the National Science Foundation, is a logical 

 concluding speaker, for he will tell us where the money is coming from, 

 perhaps, or perhaps where it is not. 



For all his youth, Mr. Abel has had a long career in oceanography. 

 I am pleased to note in passing that he is an alumnus of Woods Hole, 

 and as Director of the Office of Sea-Grant Programs has taken an 

 innovative idea and made it into one of the brightest examples of 

 progress in ocean development and ocean management. It is no wonder 

 that the Stratton Commission envisioned such a leading role for the 

 sea-grant program in the work to be done in the coastal zone. 



First, then, we will begin with Dr. Hargis. 



STATEMENT OF WILLIAM J. HARGIS, JK., PH. D., VIRGINIA 

 INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE, GLOUCESTER, POINT, VA. 



As a background it might be worth noting that most of my last 

 15 years of professional experience has been as scientist and scientific 

 adviser in and to local. State, and interstate coastal zone management 

 agencies. The last 10 have been spent as official marine affairs adviser 

 to the General Assembly and various State and interstate manage- 

 ment and planning agencies f^oncerned with Virginia's marine environ- 

 ment and its resources, and director of the State oceanographic agency 

 of the Commonwealth. During this time, I have designed and built 

 what might be called "coastal zone laboratories.'' Therefore, I have 

 some familiarity with the matter under consideration. 



Our assignment today is to treat the research requirements for 

 coastal zone management units. Without entering into the interminable 

 argument over the various "species" of research possible — basic versus 

 applied, mission versus nonmission or the clearer, yet still overlapping, 

 boundaries of science versus engineering, research versus development, 

 and science versus technology— I would like license to broaden the 

 scope of discussion to consider the possible roles of science and tech- 

 nology in coastal zone management and planning systems. From this, 

 one can treat the research or technical services and capabilities neces- 

 sary to such operations. 



