SEA GRANT COLLEGES 201 



You are very, very kind to have come here and taken this time, and 

 without your original creation, we would not be here. I thank you, 

 sir, very much indeed. 



Dr. Spilhaus. Thank you. Senator. 



Senator Pell. Our next witness will be Dr. Nierenberg, director of 

 the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla, Calif. 



STATEMENT OF DR. WILLIAM A. NIERENBERG, DIRECTOR, SCRIPPS 

 INSTITUTION OE OCEANOGRAPHY, LA JOLLA, CALIE. 



Dr. NiERENBERG. Mr. Chairman, thank you very much for inviting 

 me here. I am grateful for the invitation to present my views. 



Senator Pell. Incidentally, I would like to pass on to you the greet- 

 ings, as I said earlier, of Senator Murphy, who is very sorry he cannot 

 be with you but he is at the funeral of our colleague. 



Dr. NiERENBERG. Pliauk you very much. 



I have put together the consensus of opinions of my colleagues at 

 Scripps and it has turned out to be much too long to be read today. 



Senator Pell. I would agree with you. Could it be submitted — it is 

 26 pages, I think, and a very interesting map here. Let's put the testi- 

 mony in the record as if read, and if we possibly can, would you like 

 the map inserted in the record, too ? 



Dr. NiERENBERG. Yes, sir. 



Senator Pell. Fine. Depending on the budget of the committee, 

 I guess, and the possibility of it, we will have it inserted in the record. 



(The map referred to may be found in the files of the subcommittee.) 



Dr. NiERENBERG. I would be grateful. 



Senator Pell. Maybe you would like to digest your statement. 



Dr. NiERENBERG. Yes, sir; and just say a few words about it. I 

 really can't digest it easily but I would like to explain to you, Mr. 

 Chairman, the organization of the report and, perhaps, why it is so 

 long. 



It is really in two parts, a very short initial part where we try to 

 draw on the experiences of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography 

 as they are related to the subject of the sea grant college. 



We are, as you know, sir, approximately 75 years old and since 1912 

 we have been part of the University of California, which is a land- 

 grant college, and in a certain sense, in the narrower sense of the pro- 

 posal, Scripps has been a kind of sea grant college that very early in 

 its history it was given title to the beach at the Scripps property and 

 a thousand feet of ocean, seaward, and this was very fortunate because 

 this title included the Scripps Canyon — which was very important — 

 Scripps and La Jolla Canyons, which are very important for our 

 deep-water • 



Senator Pell. ^Yhiit is that? 



Dr. NiERENBERG. Scripps Canyon. There are two very deep, narrow 

 canyons that cut the Continental Shelf almost up to the shore. The 

 major one is the La Jolla, and then a piece at right angles to it, called 

 the Scripps Canyon. This is very fortunate for the scientists as it 

 enables tliem to get rapidly into deep water and study the ocean proc- 

 esses close to shore. 



In addition, we have a marshland preserve and we ha\e 1 square 

 mile of ocean preserve that we share with the Navy Electronics 

 Laboratory. 



