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Fellow, Royal Meteorological Society ; member, Royal Society of South Africa ; 

 fellow, American Rocket Society ; member, Ajnerican Geophysical Union ; mem- 

 ber, American Meteorological Society ; member, American Society of Limnology 

 and Oceanography; registered professional engineer (Minnesota) and member, 

 Minnesota Society of Professional Engineers ; member, American Society for 

 Engineering Education. Member, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi. 



Currently : Member, Advisory Panel on General Sciences, Oflace of the Secre- 

 tary of Defense. 



Member, U.S. National Committee for the International Geophysical Year, 

 National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council (NAS-NRC). 



Member, USNC Technical Panel on the Earth Satellite, IGY. 



Member, Coumiittee on Ocean oga-aphj% NAS-NRC. 



Member, Committee on Polar Research, NAS-NRC. 



Member, U.S. National Coooiinisslon, UNESCO. 



Member, Board of Trustees, and Chairman, Scientific Advisory Committee, 

 Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. 



Inventor of the bathythermograph. 



Author : "Workbook on Meteorology," "Meteorological Instruments," "Wea- 

 thercraft," "Satellite of the Sun," "Turn to the Sea." 



"Our New Age" (with Earl Cros), a weekly Sunday feature on science, and 

 numerous articles in scientific journals. 



STATEMENT OF ATHELSTAN SPILHATJS, UNIVEESITY OF 

 MINNESOTA 



Mr. Spilhaus. Mr. Chairman and Senators, I am Athelstan 

 Spilliaus, dean of the Institute of Technology at the University of 

 Minnesota, a distinguished institution about as far from the oceans 

 in any direction as you can get in North America. 



Mr. Chairman, I am also associated and have been since 1934 with 

 the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution of Avhich I am presently 

 a trustee. 



I am deeply convinced that our Nation must stimulate and develop 

 a broad thoroughgoing research program in all phases of oceanog- 

 raphy, not only to secure our security by surveillance mider the 

 waters to lessen the danger of war, but also as an immense potential 

 contribution to the national economy, to take our place in oceanog- 

 raphy as a leader in tliis science, and to use research in the seas which 

 are owned by no nation to lessen international tensions and promote 

 cooperation between all the nations that border the seas. 



The report of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on 

 Oceanography has been prepared, as you said, Mr. Chairman, in about 

 12 chapters. The task that Dr. Harrison Brown set for his col- 

 leagues on the committee was no light one and was not taken so by 

 any one of us and could not be accomplished properly in less than the 

 2 years that we have been working. 



It involved visiting various oceanographic institutions, talking with 

 all Government agencies concerned, collecting data preparatory to 

 discussions and analysis culminating in the preparation of a series of 

 reports. 



Later on today, after Mr. Sumner Pike and I have introduced 

 and summarized the recommendations, various members of our com- 

 mittee will present aspects of the total program in detail. 



Shortly after World War II a cartoon appeared in the New Yorker 

 magazine which depicted an encyclopedia salesman with his foot in 

 the door trying to sell a housewife with the phrase, ''For instance, 

 what do you laiow about oceanogTaphy ?" 



