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Another objective concerns the development of new and exotic instrumentation, 
producing new and different types of data output. NODO will continue to work 
with the Navy’s Instrumentation Center, and the Interagency Instrumentation 
Panel, and others concerned with the development of new instrumentation to 
insure that the data products on one hand and data processing and archiving 
facilities on the other hand are coordinated. 
NODC will continue to develop its capabilities fer handling physical and 
marine biological and geological-geophysical data in cooperation with leading 
scientists in both fields, and with respect to both digital data and nondigital 
information. 
NODC will continue to develop quality control procedures designed to enhance 
the quality of its data products. 
‘NODC must discover funding procedures and manpower resources to reduce 
the accumulated backlog of oceanographic data, the bulk of which was inherited | 
at the time of its establishment (January 1961). 
NODC will strive tc improve its communication systems with the leading 
oceanographic laboratories and organizations in the United States and to expand 
its exchange programs with foreign organizations. It will continue to work 
through the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and the World 
Data Center system to improve acquisition and exchange of data. Regular ex- 
change of data began in 1961 with 18 countries; now our exchange program in- 
cludes activities in 40 countries. 
NODC will continue to explore better means of information retrieval, me- 
chanical, photoelectronic, manual, and combinations thereof, which will speed 
up the availability of data and information to the user. 
This concludes my report, Mr. Chairman, and I am now available for any 
questions you may have. 
Mr. Peuuy. The next and final witness as I understand it is Dr. 
Stewart of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. 
Dr. Stewart, would you come forward? Will you identify yourself 
for the reporter ? 
Dr. Stewart. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am Dr. Harris B. 
Stewart, Jr., Deputy Assistant Director of the U.S. Coast and Geo- 
detic Survey in the Office of Oceanography. 
STATEMENT OF DR. HARRIS B. STEWART, JR., DEPUTY ASSISTANT 
DIRECTOR, U.S. COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY IN THE OFFICE 
OF OCEANOGRAPHY 
Dr. Stewart. My appearing here today with no prepared statement 
was occasioned by the fact that I have within the past week returned 
from the Indian Ocean where I was acting as chief scientist aboard 
the U.S. Coast and Geodetic ship Pioneer, taking part in the Interna- 
tional Indian Ocean Expedition, and it was the belief that this com- 
mittee might be interested in a very brief, on the order of 5 minutes, 
summary of some of the things that have actually been going on at sea 
relative to this International Indian Ocean Expedition. 
The Pioneer left San Francisco on the 11th of February. I jomed 
the ship in Manila. From Manila we worked down through the South 
China Sea, touching briefly at Jesselton on Borneo. Then into Singa- 
pore, up through the Malacca Straits to Penang, on the Malay Pen- 
ninsula, working back and forth across the Andaman Sea, up through 
the Bay of Bengal to Calcutta, then down to Columbo, Ceylon, where 
I left the ship. The ship is now just leaving Djakarta in Indonesia 
and will work her way across the Pacific arriving at San Francisco in 
early August. 
The work done can be briefly summarized. The ship worked from 
the upper atmosphere where the meteorological balloons finally 
