20 MARINE SCIENCE 
on Oceanography of the National Academy of Sciences as well as the 
report entitled “Education and Recruitment of Oceanographers in the 
United States” recently published by the American Society of Lim- 
nology and Oceanography. Asa result of the increased public aware- 
ness of the field of oceanography educational activities such as my 
own are receiving a greatly increased number of applications for 
graduate training in the field. 
Concurrent with the increase in the number of applications is a 
marked increase in the caliber of the applicants. The number of 
graduate students that we have in residence at one time is, however, 
critically limited by the amount of available shore facilities. Our 
present academic staff could provide excellent graduate training and 
graduate research supervision to at least 30 students. Our present 
enrollment of 10 is very close to the maximum number of students we 
can have without seriously affecting the caliber of training, because 
of the lack of adequate graduate research facilities. We will be able 
to admit only one out of every two otherwise acceptable students next 
year because of the lack of adequate space for graduate study and 
research. | 
This lack of adequate shore facilities is also affecting the further 
development of our research activities in the field of oceanography. 
At the present time the department of oceanography and the Chesa- 
peake Bay Institute have 30 full-time and 10 part-time personnel 
employed in our campus facilities—that is exclusive of our ship 
operation. Ne 
In the summertime the 10 part-time personnel are employed full- 
time, and we normally add from 3 to 5 additional technician- 
grade people. The present staff includes 10 senior and associate staff 
engaged in teaching and research, 14 research assistants, and 12 
technician-grade and administrative personnel, for a total of 40. 
These people occupy a total of 1,787 square feet of office space, 2,050 
square feet of chemistry and biological laboratory space, 410 square 
feet of electronics laboratory and shop space, and 255 square feet in 
our computer room, photo laboratory and draftsman space. ‘Twenty- 
seven of our personnel occupy the office space for an average of 66 
square feet per man. Of the 11 who use the biology and:chemistry 
laboratory, only 3 have separate office space, and the remainder must 
use valuable laboratory space for desk space. None of the five elec- 
tronics and instrument personnel have office space outside the elec- 
tronics laboratory. 
Our present chemistry and biology laboratory space is less than one- 
third the 6,150 square feet of such space which is required for the pro- 
gram we are now capable of pursuing. We have no laboratory space 
which can be utilized for graduate student research. Preparation and 
analysis of oceanographic data requires much more office space than 
for other types of office activity because of the necessity of having 
large plotting tables for current work and readily available storage 
facilities for raw data and for the graphs, plotting sheets, et cetera, 
used in the various stages of data reduction and analysis. Again our 
present office space represents only about one-third of our requirement 
for this type of space. . ait 
_ The use of machines for data processing, analysis, and computa- 
tions 1s playing an ever-increasing role in oceanography. Certain 
