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versity departments have more than their share of 
trouble attracting oceanographers already in short 
supply anyway and temperamentally more inter- 
ested in research, particularly seagoing research, 
than they are in teaching. They tend to go to the 
great oceanographic institutions such as Woods 
Hole and Scripps where research receives major 
emphasis. It is a rare university which can combine 
both types of facilities. They might produce still 
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more if they retained more of their graduates in 
teaching positions rather than losing them to re- 
search, but this would produce an even greater 
deficit of research oceanographers during the in- 
terim. The best way to prime the educational pump 
in oceanography is one of the subjects greatly in 
need of study during the coming years and is a 
high priority item for one of the panels of the 
Interagency Committee on Oceanography. 
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