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opportunity to comment on Senate bill S. 901, the “Marine Sciences 
and Research Act of 1961,” and to discuss the need for a national 
oceanographic program, 
I am testifying before you today as director of an oceanographic 
research institution aand as chairman of a graduate department of 
oceanography in a privately endowed university. 
The Cuarrman. I don’t like to interrupt, but it points up what you 
are saying. As chairman of the graduate department of oceanog- 
raphy at Johns Hopkins, you indicate another serious need for this 
Do you give a degree in regular college work in oceanography ? 
Dr. Prircuarp. We give a graduate degree in oceanography. 
The CHarrman. Graduate? 
Dr. Prircuarp. Yes, sir, a master’s degree and a doctorate degree 
in oceanography. 
The CHamman. There are very few institutions, are there not, 
which give this degree? In other words, we are lacking in this, are 
we not? 
Dr. PrircHarp. That is right. 
The Cuatirman. What other institutions do give graduate degrees 
in oceanography ? ) 
Dr. Prircuarp. The University of Washington, Oregon State Uni- 
versity, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University of 
eenuehery California is now developing a program to do this, Texas 
.& M. 
The Cuatrman. And Miami? 
Dr. Prrrowarp. The University of Miami. The State University 
in Florida also has a program, though they do not give a degree in 
oceanography ; they give work equivalent to a degree in oceanography 
in other departments. 
The Cuairman. The point I am making is that all of these things 
are just starting ? 
Dr. Prircuarp. That is right. 
The Cuamman. Weare new in this field ? 
Dr. Pritcuarp. Yes,sir. I willtry to bring that out. 
The Cuammayn. Go ahead. 
Dr. Prrrenarp. Representatives of the National Academy of Sci- 
ences’ Committee on Oceanography as well as others will undoubtedly 
testify before you as to the overall national needs in the field of ocea- 
nography. I feel I can best serve your committee by presenting cer- 
tain information regarding my own institution, since other people 
will testify as to the overall need of oceanography. 
I do this since I feel that the specific problems of mounting an ade- 
quate research program in the field of oceanography as encountered 
at my own institution are fairly typical of the problems encountered 
at most of the private oceanographic institutions in the country. 
There is a very close tie between the research activities in the field 
of oceanography and the graduate training program in that same field 
at the Johns Hopkins University. Because of this we have been able 
to maintain a highly qualified joint research and teaching staff capable 
of providing graduate training to many more students than have been 
or are now in residence. The need for a rapid and significant increase 
in the number of students undergoing graduate training in the field 
of oceanography is amply brought out in the reports of the Committee 
