2°26 NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 
Mr. Waxetin. You may remember that you inquired specifically 
about the positions of the Smithsonian Institution and the Army 
Corps of Engineers in the ICO scheme. Since our last meeting with: 
you, the Smithsonian Institution has been given full membership on 
the committee, and Dr. I. E. Wallen is its permanent representative. 
The Army, as part of the Defense Department, is represented on the 
full committee by myself as chairman; however, Mr. Joseph Caldwell 
of the Coastal Engineering Research Center has been added to the ICO: 
Working Group. As I will expand on later in this statement, the De- 
partment of State has been given full membership on the ICO. 
You will recall also that at our last meeting your committee gave 
particular emphasis to our need for central staff support to carry out 
the ever-increasing functions and responsibilities which attend our 
growth. In accordance with your suggestion in this regard, the ICO 
has set up such a staff. The composition of our staff reflects the typical 
interagency cooperative attitude that the ICO personifies. For in- 
stance, salary funding is provided by the Office of Naval Research, the 
Bureau of Commercial Fisheries, the Public Health Service, the 
Oceanographic Office, and the Coast and Geodetic Survey. Personnel 
billets have been provided by the Coast Guard, the Oceanographic 
Office, the Oceanographic Data Center, the Public Health Service. and 
the Naval Research Laboratory. The major portion of supplies and 
services are provided as a matter of fact by the Office of Naval Re- 
search as the operating arm of the ICO chairman, but at least 15 of 
the ICO member agencies have from time to time provided much 
valuable assistance to us in this area. 
As you can readily imagine, the importance of a national program 
in oceanography is being brought increasingly to the attention of the 
American public. The number of books and articles is increasing 
at a high rate. To provide the best possible reference to this large 
volume of literature, the ICO last year compiled and issued our Pam- 
phlet No. 9, Bibliography of Oceanographic Publications. We have 
listed herein 500 selective titles including treatises, textbooks, diction- 
aries, directories, bibliographies, periodicals, maps, films, histories,. 
biographies, and nontechnical books and articles under 36 subject 
headings. We have also indicated the reading level and content. I 
should like to introduce this with your permission. 
(See app. 2, p. 171.) 
Mr. Waxe.in. A couple of years ago, at the suggestion of Dr. John 
Lyman of the National Science Foundation, the ICO began a com- 
pilation of university curriculums in oceanography to provide infor- 
mation about training programs in the marine sciences. Our pur- 
pose was to provide information for students, to increase the exchange 
of information among the schools, and to aid employers of personnel 
trained in the various disciplines which comprise oceanography. We 
have described the programs and facilities of each institution and 
have listed the courses that are taught, the names of the faculty mem- 
bers, the degrees that are offered, descriptions of courses, and the per- 
son to contact for further information. The demand for this publi- 
cation exceeded our forecasts by at least an order of magnitude and the 
document now enjoys international distribution. I should like to 
submit this document for the record with your permission. 
Mr. Lennon. We will go off the record for just a minute. 
