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The Coast Guard began instrumenting its 
first ocean station vessel in a program which 
will eventually provide all ocean stations with 
an oceanographic capability, which will be used 
to provide field assistance to government agen- 
cies, university laboratories, and industrial 
programs. 
Facilities 
Last year funds were approved for con- 
struction of a new $2-1/4 million oceanographic 
laboratory in Seattle for the Bureau of Com- 
merical Fisheries. The Bureau's Beaufort, 
North Carolina, facility was expanded by con- 
struction of a Radiobiological laboratory. 
The Coast and Geodetic Survey accom- 
plished tie third step in its five year program 
for improving and expanding its Norfolk Ship 
Base, and construction of an oceanographic lab- 
oratory, research facility, and ships' base at 
Seattle has commenced. Through the support of 
the National Science Foundation, the University 
of Washington, Oregon State University, Johns 
Hopkins University, and the Woods Hole Oceano- 
graphic Institution have commenced construction 
of laboratories which will greatly enhance their 
training and research capabilities. 
Manpower and Training 
The Manpower and Training Panel of the 
Interagency Committee on Oceanography is com- 
pleting its report to the ICO on the present 
status of training and the availability of scienti- 
fic manpower. This report will be submitted 
by the ICO to the FCST as part of the ICO series 
and will include recommendations for means of 
expanding training in categories in which short- 
ages exist or are anticipated. 
International Programs 
The United States formally participated as 
a full member in several activities of the Inter- 
governmental Oceanographic Commission during 
calendar year 1962. Included were representa- 
tion at the Bureau meeting of the Commission 
in April, 1962 and the meeting of the full Com- 
mission in September. In addition, the United 
States was host to two International Oceano- 
graphic Commission Working Group meetings 
at the National Oceanographic Data Center, 
Washington, D. C. One meeting concerned the 
International Cooperative Investigations of the 
Tropical Atlantic, a program which was for- 
mally proposed to the Commission by the U. S. 
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at the April Bureau meeting. The other was a 
meeting of the Working Group on Data Exchange. 
The U. S. also sent representatives to working 
group meetings in Paris on Fixed Oceanographic 
Stations and Communications. 
At the Intergovernmental Oceanographic 
Commission meeting in Paris, a number of 
resolutions of significance for international 
programs in oceanography were adopted. The 
Commission passed a resolution requesting its 
advisory bodies to draw up a general scientific 
framework for conducting a comprehensive study 
of the world ocean. Such a study would include 
programs Similar to the International Indian 
Ocean Expedition, International Cooperative 
Investigations of the Tropical Atlantic, and the 
Dynamic Study of the Northern Oceans. Both the 
IIOE and ICITA were made official programs of 
the Commission at this meeting. The Commis- 
sion suggested that the Soviet proposal for the 
Dynamic Study of the Northern Oceans be im- 
plemented in a series of stages such as those 
proposed in the Tropical Atlantic studies. Res- 
olutions were passed concerning fixed oceano- 
graphic stations, the legal status of buoys, and 
the problem of alloting radio frequencies for 
oceanographic communications. 
The Commission also requested its advi- 
sory bodies to arrange for national and inter- 
national intercalibration of instruments and 
standardization of techniques, and to arrange 
for symposia on the results. In addition, the 
Commission explored the possibility of holding 
a Second International Oceanographic Congress 
at an early date, perhaps during 1964 or 1965. 
Dr. William Cameron of Canada was reelected 
Chairman of the Commission, with Vice Admi- 
ral Tchekourov of the USSR and Captain Capurro 
of Argentina as Vice Chairmen. 
A meeting on Inter-American cooperation 
in oceanography, jointly sponsored by the Na- 
tional Academy of Sciences and the Office of 
Naval Research, was held in November 1962 in 
Miami. This meeting explored possible coop- 
eration on programs which are too extensive to 
be accomplished by a single nation. The prob- 
lem that appeared to be common to most coun- 
tries was the need for stimulating the education 
and training of new oceanographers. Several 
cooperative programs for achieving this end 
were proposed and will probably be initiated in 
the near future. 
United States participation in the Interna- 
tional Cooperative Investigation of the Tropical 
Atlantic and in the International Indian Ocean 
Expedition during 1963 is described in appen- 
dices A and B to this report. 
