MARINE SCIENCE 2A 
types of problems now being pursued involve such rapid accumula- 
tion of data that machine treatment is an absolute requirement. 
While complete computer facilities need not be located within an 
oceanographic shore facility, auxiliary equipment used to prepare 
data for use in high-speed computers is required. The space we now 
have for such auxiliary data preparation equipment is not sufficient, 
and we require about twice our present space for this purpose. 
Besides the fact that our present space is insufficient as to amount, 
it is also in certain critical instances inefficiently arranged. Thus, in 
order to obtain an electronics laboratory, we converted what had been 
a wide corridor connecting two parts of our facility. We gained 
330 square feet of usable space this way; however, in order to go 
from the area containing our senior staff offices and administrative 
office to the area containing our data reduction facilities plus several 
associate staff offices and a small chemical laboratory, it 1s necessary 
to either go through the rather narrow electronic laboratory and 
disrupt work in progress there or to take a very long circuit which 
involves descent to the basement of the building and return to the 
first floor where our facilities are located. 
As a further move to gain space, we have resorted to constructing 
balconies in some rooms which have high ceilings, these balconies 
being used to store reference material and for file cabinets, et cetera. 
These’ balconies, while useful, do not quite have adequate headroom 
and hence are somewhat uncomfortable to use. 
Our research programs in the areas of estuarine circulation and 
incipient wind-wave development would be greatly facilitated by 
utilization of small hydraulic models and wave tanks. At present we 
have no space at all to utilize for this type of experimental oceanog- 
raphy. We could efficiently utilize between 2,000 and 38,000 square 
feet of open experimental area for limited experimental work using 
hydraulic models, hydraulic flumes, and wave tanks. 
A private institution such as the Johns Hopkins University with 
the many requirements being placed on it for the adequate education 
of the Nation’s youth simply cannot on its own meet the increased 
facilities requirements in the field of oceanography. Specific shore- 
facilities funds must be provided as part of the increased national 
effort in oceanography. I feel this is the one area where the Com- 
mittee on Oceanography in its original report grossly underestimated 
the total funds necessary in order to provide adequate shore facilities 
to support the proposed 10-year program in oceanography. 
Tn addition to the requirement for more adequate shore facilities, 
oceanography cannot compete for the top-notch student without ade- 
quate student aid through graduate fellowships and scholarships. 
In most universities oceanography is a relatively new field. Depart- 
ments of oceanography frequently find themselves at a disadvantage 
compared to other departments in the university because these older 
departments normally have some specific endowed fellowships for 
graduate training in their field. 
Last’ year we accepted 11 applicants for admission as first-year 
graduate students in oceanography. Only five of these finally ma- 
triculated. The remainder went into other fields where they could 
receive financial support which we could not offer. 
