325 



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 ALASKA 



Chaet 16 



MAJOR ACADEMIC AND PRIVATE LABORATORIES 



(IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS) 

 FOR CALENDAR YEAR 1965 



UNIVERSITY OF 

 K MIAMI 



Now, on the next chart we have shown the way in which the num- 

 ber of ships dedicated to oceanographic and marine scientific and engi- 

 neering work has increased over the past few years, and we have 

 coded the chart so that it is cmnulative. You can see in any year what 

 was accomplished to increase the oceanographic fleet in that year. We 

 have mixed both conversions and new construction, but principally 

 the ships shown represent new construction in the last 3 years. The 

 new ships and conversions are split for the period 1960 through 1967, 

 and you can see that we did more converting in that period than new 

 building. Subsequently, we have begun to do more building than con- 

 verting. These ships include, of course, the Coast Guard cutters that 

 are partly or wholly dedicated to oceanographic work as well as Navy 

 survey ships and the research fleet, both Federal and private. (See 

 chart 17.) 



The next chart shows you Federal oceanographic funding in the 

 period 1960 through 1968. The red line, which is the solid line on the 

 small charts, is what we have called the national oceanographic pro- 

 gram. This is the national oceanographic program as it was carried 

 in the listings of the Interagency Committee on Oceanography, before 

 the foundation of the Council and the Commission, and as extrapo- 

 lated through 1968 on that red line. 



As a matter of interest, we have put in the dashed line which shows 

 the actual growth, according to the Interagency Committee on 

 Oceanography definitions, as compared with the growth that was esti- 

 mated in 1963 in the report "Oceanography 10 Years Ahead.'' You 

 can see by that definition the trend has been above the prediction. 



