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Despite the lack of any funding similar to that accorded agricultural 

 training and research, the University has maintained growing interest in these 

 problems. For the past 10 years, a course in marine biology has been taught 

 every summer. Since 1963, the University has operated the Alabama Marine 

 Resources Laboratory on Dauphin Island, conducting applied fishery research 

 for the Alabama Department of Conservation. On- campus courses are offered 

 in ichthyology, limnology, and marine fishery science. However praiseworthy, 

 these efforts are puny in relation to the need. 



The University of Alabama has shown it is both willing and anxious to aid 

 the state and the nation by expanding its education and research in the marine 

 sciences. If the pending legislation on sea-grant universities has broad enough 

 scope to encompass the needs we have outlined, it will be welcomed and sup- 

 ported by the University. 



CARL N. SHUSTER, JR., Director, Northeast Shellfish Sanitation Research Cen- 

 ter, U. S. Public Health Service, Narragansett 



When I gaze over Dr. Spilhaus' shoulder into his crystal ball portrayal of 

 men working and living under the sea through achievements in ocean engineer- 

 ing -- taking full cognizance of his concept of a sea-grant university and recog- 

 nizing Dr. Chapman's apt differentiation between the "land" and "sea" people -- 

 I can see the establishment of a college on grant lands of the continental shelf 

 as the ultimate fruition of the concept. I see also an extension of Dr. Spilhaus' 

 remarks on ocean engineering into a research-application area in which the 

 Public Health Service of the U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 

 has a definite interest. As in the case of Captain Cousteaus' and the U. S. 

 Navy's Sea Lab experiments in underwater living, medical and physiological re- 

 search will continue to play a vital and significant role in man's invasion of the 

 sea floor. Successful habitation in the underwater city of tomorrow will depend 

 in large measure upon advances in environmental engineering-- including water 

 and air supplies, sanitation, and community health -- beyond those even now en- 

 visioned for our terrestrial habitat. It is an exciting future to contemplate; by 

 establishing sea- grant universities on the land today we may be fully able to 

 benefit from the lands at the bottom of the sea tomorrow. 



WILLIAM H. TAFT, University of South Florida 



Many of the discussions at this conference have been directed towards the 

 problem of financing the sea-grant colleges. 



One of the challenging and most inspiring aspects of the possibility of es- 

 tablishing sea-grant colleges is the possibility of augmenting a need by proper 

 planning and implementation rather than being forced by a national crisis, such 

 as produced by Sputnik, to race into the problem of crash-program support for 

 marine science on a national scale. 



We have heard comments by various speakers as to how they would finance 

 the proposed sea-grant colleges. These proposals range from Senator Pell's 

 10% of royalties from leases on the continental shelves to the proposal from 

 Dean Hargis that we should use a portion of the more than $1,000,000,000 col- 

 lected in 1964 from import duty imposed on fishing products brought into the 

 United States. 



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