NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 
THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1964 
Houses or REPRESENTATIVES, 
SUBCOMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE 
ComMITTEE ON MercHant Marine AND FISHERIES, 
Washington, D.C. 
The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 219, 
‘(Cannon House Office Building, Hon. Alton Lennon (chairman of 
the subcommittee) presiding. 
Mr. Lennon. Gentlemen, we will resume the hearings. 
I understand we are to have a film this morning and with the help 
-of some of you gentlemen and some of the members of the committee 
staff, we will move right along with that. 
We apologize for the delay but we had a markup this morning on 
a couple of bills in executive session. 
Proceed. 
(A film was shown.) 
Mr. Lennon. We are delighted to have with us this morning, 
Dr. I. E. Wallen, Chairman of the Research Panel and Assistant 
Director for Oceanography, from the Smithsonian Institution. 
We are delighted to have you, Dr. Wallen, and if you have a 
written or prepared statement, fine. You may proceed. 
If you care to, in the interest of time, you can include your state- 
ment in the record and hit the high spots. You can put your state- 
ment in the record at the conclusion of your verbal statement and 
we will then ask questions. 
What is your choice? 
STATEMENT OF DR. I. E. WALLEN, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR 
OCEANOGRAPHY, MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, SMITHSONIAN 
INSTITUTION, AND CHAIRMAN, RESEARCH PANEL, INTER- 
AGENCY COMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRAPHY 
Dr. Watten. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 
I will take advantage of your latter offer and talk off the cuff. 
Mr. Lennon, Thankyou, sir. Goright ahead. 
Dr. Wauten. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am 
talking for the Research Panel of the Interagency Committee on Ocean- 
ography. It has been the responsibility of this Panel to attempt to 
coordinate research efforts of the various Federal departments to make 
sure that there is in fact interagency cooperation in research. 
_I have listed in my statement some examples of cooperation in re- 
search and have listed the members of the Research Panel. L.will 
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