88 THE NAVY OCEAN SCIENCE PROGRAM 



international geophysical and oceanographic expeditions. Ex- 

 amples of these are the International Indian Ocean Expedition, 

 International Cooperative Investigations in the Tropical At- 

 lantic, and the Cooperative Studies of the Kuroshio. 



EDUCATION 



After World War II, the Navy Ocean Science Program became 

 the principal source of support for the major university and 

 private oceanographic research institutions. Later the National 

 Science Foundation shared this support. This period since World 

 War II has seen a remarkable growth not only in the size of the 

 institutions but also in the establishment of many new ones. 

 This growth has been aggressively supported through contracts 

 by the Navy Ocean Science Program, as a means of training 

 scientists to meet the needs of the Navy and to provide the 

 manpower resources necessary to perform research in the 

 national interest. The increasing numbers of graduate students 

 now being trained is a direct consequence of the deliberate 

 policy of the Navy to encourage education through the support 

 of research projects and the provision of facilities in this field. 



