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sible to make a major study of a biological area in order to say that this 
group of organisms occurs here and has commercial value. 
Or, that this group of organisms occurs here and may be of value for 
pharmaceuticals. . 
Or, this maybe occurs here and may be hazardous; this occurs here 
and may be harmful to fouling; this produces bioluminescence. 
In order to approach this problem, we have finally been able to de- 
vise a system of incorporating the data onto puncheards and then 
putting them into electronic computers. Recently it has been possible 
to complete a study of the distribution of organisms.in the Gulf-of 
California. We expect to do much more of this in the future. 
From the geological standpoint, we have recently discovered large 
numbers of sea mountains, and have found a rather definite relation- 
ship between fishes and these undersea structures. This, of course, 1s' 
of value again to fisheries because of the possibility to accumulate the: 
fishes in commercial quantities in and around these sea mounts. 
I might add just a few things, too, in the field of interagency co- 
operation in research. The one that I mentioned concerned the co- 
operation of the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Science 
Foundation, and the Navy in supporting a single ship for the most 
part, but with supporting vessels in the area off the Columbia. River. 
I might also call attention to the joint use of vessels by various 
agencies. For example, the University of Miami, which operates its. 
ship from support from the Office of Naval Research and the National 
Science Foundation, made a cruise to the tropical Atlantic area. It 
did this in cooperation with the Coast Guard, with a Woods Hole 
oceanographic vessel, with scientists from the Smithsonian In:titution, 
sicentists from the University of Miami, and the Bureau of Commer- 
cial Fisheries. 
The Bureau of Commercial Fisheries and the Public Health Service 
have operated for a long time in the areas of pollution and waste con- 
trol, and have in fact had in existence for several years, even longer 
than the Interagency Committee on Oceanography, a committee be- 
tween the two agencies which considers the problem of joint interests, 
of making it possible for the Public Health Service to operate on Bu- 
reau of Commercial Fisheries and Bureau of Sports Fisheries vessels 
and working up the data in cooperation so that that information of 
special value to public health is given to the Public Health Service 
and the information that may be obtained on the distribution of or- 
ganisms and their possible importance to man is taken by the Bureau 
of Commercial Fisheries and Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. 
In the Antarctic program of the National Science Foundation, sup- 
port has been given to the Weather Bureau, to the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution, to the Navy, and to many other Government organizations, in- 
cluding of course the Coast Guard for its work in that area. 
One of the programs we face in research is, How do we gather data. 
on a long-term basis from a single place? We have had reasonably 
successful cooperation, and I think reasonably successful only because 
our success in engineering has not been sufficient to meet our needs in 
sciences yet, in the development of buoy programs. We find buoys 
being supported through the instrument panel of ICO, buoys being 
supported by the research panel of ICO, and the development of buoys. 
1s of course a very important lead in our ability to take data less ex- 
pensively over long periods of time. 
