duty, and administration of various areas of the Navy's Oceanographlc 

 program. 



Turning to the Federal scene, the big push now would seem 

 to be with the war on pollution and, certainly we need to fight It, 

 Oceanography of course is involved here, particularly in the coastal 

 zones, estuaries and lakes. 



Thousands of words are being written on the pollution of our 

 environment and the new "in" word is ecology. My daughter heard 

 it and read it so often she decided to look it up. The dictionary told 

 her it meant "the relationship between living organisms and their 

 environment," "Here," she said, "I was wondering what it was and 

 I've been right in the middle of it all the time. " 



Our new consciousness of our total ecology and the drive 

 against pollution are going to lead to some complex conflicts -- such 

 as between the off-shore oil interests and the conservationists -- 

 the real estate developers and the fishing industry. When you drain 

 a salt marsh, for instance, you interfere with the food chain that 

 supports the fish we need for human food. Involved also is the huge 

 and growing water recreation industry. 



In solving our problems we have to be sure not to throw out 

 the baby with the polluted bath water. 



Has oceanography got an assured future? Yes of course. We 

 are going to have to turn more and more to the Inexhaustible seas 

 for the food and the minerals we will need for the worlds exploding 

 population. 



But I don't see that future going up in a near vertical line as 

 It did, for Instance, in the space business. In the first place there 

 are none of those big hunks of development money lying around these 

 days. 



curve. 



But I do see it going up steadily in a much more gently rising 



But go up it will and as it goes we will need more and more 

 sophisticated equipment and techniques to gather and evaluate infor- 

 mation and ever smarter and better educated men to program and 

 run them. 



