NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 69 
STATEMENT OF DR. ARTHUR E. MAXWELL, HEAD, GEOPHYSICS 
BRANCH OF THE OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH AND CHAIRMAN 
OF THE INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY PANEL 
ON INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS 
Dr. Maxwett. If it is agreeable to you, Mr. Chairman, I would be 
pleased just to submit my statement for the record. 
Mr. Lennon. We will assume the committee members, even though 
they aré not all here, are going to read it and study it. 
Go ahead and do whatever you want to do. 
Dr. Maxweru. I would be pleased to submit it for the record and 
comment on it, and perhaps be available for questions in order to save 
time. 
Mr. Lennon. If there is no objection, Dr. Maxwell’s prepared state- 
ment will immediately follow his testimony today. 
- Dr. Maxwetxu. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, it is 
a great pleasure to be here before you again. Personally, I feel that 
this is one of the most important panels of the Interagency Commit- 
tee on Oceanography and [ think this is particularly so in listening to 
the committee hearings so far where we have alluded to a great num- 
ber of questions in regard our international programs. 
T think you will also find as we go along that the programs of the 
Research and Survey Panels all gradually feed into our international 
programs. I do not think I need to go into any great detail as to 
why the international aspects of oceanography are so important. 
Secretary Wakelin and Mr. McKernan have mentioned many of 
these and the fact that the oceans are so large and that they belong to 
no one are facts certainly obvious to all of us. Nonetheless, I think it 
is true that our international programs must have some sort of theme 
to them and they must be serving an economic interest and policy mat- 
ters in order to be useful for the Government and in order to be sup- 
ported by our Government. 
Some of the items that are of particular significance with regard 
to international cooperation are the various kinds of scientific studies 
that require the cooperation of many nations. For example, air-sea 
interaction has been discussed many times this morning and yesterday. 
Tf we are to look into the air-sea interaction program, we find that this 
is a program of global nature and it requires observations from a 
global area. These cannot be done very easily by any single nation 
and cooperation of many nations makes it very desirable. 
In 1961 our cooperation in international programs in oceanography 
was considerably enhanced by the formation of the Intergovernmental 
Oceanographic Commission under the auspices of UNESCO. Since 
that time, there have been three meetings of the Commission and five 
meetings of its Bureau. The last meeting of this Commission ended 
only last Friday. 
Mr. McKernan, your last witness, was the chairman of the U.S. 
delegation to this meeting. There are two programs which have been 
