202 SEA GRANT COLLEGES 



Now, we are an educational and research institution but we are also 

 organized to serve some of the purposes described in the sea grant 

 college bill itself. I would like to briefly list the details of that part 

 of our organization which is so constructed. 



We have the Institute of ]\Iarine Resources which is housed in 

 Scripp's and headed by Prof. Milner Schaefer. 



We have the marine life research group, which is headed by Prof. 

 John Isaacs. 



There is the Marine Physical Laboratory, which is housed at Point 

 Loma and headed by Prof. Fred N. Spiess, which was established 

 principally to work in the problems of importance to the U.S. Navy. 



We have the Visibility Laboratory at Point Loma headed by Dr. 

 Siebert Duntley. We also house the Tuna Commission. We are hosts 

 to the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. 



One of our divisions, the University of California Division of War 

 Research, no longer exists but has been transmuted into the Marine 

 Physical Laboratory and the Naval Electronics Laboratory. 



I put this in the record. Senator Pell, principally to indicate the 

 strong desirability of a sea grant concept and how we have in our own 

 way pragmatically been working in the same direction in that side of 

 our institution which is not organized directly for research and 

 teaching. 



Now, I would like to explain the second part of the paper, the longer 

 part, and this part is principally devoted to those areas of research, 

 applied research specifically, ancl activities that we feel are important 

 for the sea grant college concept as outlined in your bill. 



It is too lengtliy for me to go into detail and I would just like to make 

 a brief statement about this. 



Many needs of man are now supplied by the ocean. A substantial 

 number of these cases are sufficiently well understood that research is 

 mainly only adjunct to specific utilization — affecting the effects of the 

 utilization and dealing with improvements. Such cases can be clas- 

 sified as industrial research and include much of the activity in waste 

 disposal, fish and seaweed harvest, beach construction and erosion con- 

 trol, shallow water petroleum production, marine architecture and 

 transport, harbor engineering, military equipment, nearshore struc- 

 tures, undersea cables, marine instruments, and so on. 



In these cases there exists a body of knowledge and a fund of op- 

 erational know-how and equipment that permits the instruction of and 

 profitable employment of practitioners in ocean technology for both 

 the industrial operations and industrial research. 



Construction and research of this type is, of course, essential to man's 

 effective utilization of the ocean environment and can be adequately 

 carried out by technical schools and research institutions. Much of 

 the research is of a specific nature and does not intimately parallel the 

 research of disciplinary oceanography. 



But the crux of my remarks is what follows and this is the area of 

 ocean eno:ineering and technology that deals with the generalized prob- 

 lems and op]5ortunities — broad applicability — that ocean science re- 

 veals. It is this area directly paralleling and highly compatible with 

 ocean science to which Scripps devotes its attention and study and to 

 which I devote the remainder of my remarks in the full paper. And 

 with your permission, I will just read the titles of areas that are 

 discussed in detail in the report. 



