NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 
Curricula in Oceanography, and a comprehen- 
sive Bibliography of Oceanographic Publications 
will be issued and should contribute materially 
toward motivation and indoctrination of young 
students. 
The following sections present in some de- 
tail the further effort by the ICO to coordinate 
the National Oceanographic Program. 
A. RESEARCH 
Oceanographic research programs, in gen- 
eral, are of a continuing nature requiring many 
years to solve satisfactorily the problems in- 
volved. The publication, Oceanographic Re- 
search in the Federal Government, prepared by 
the Interagency Committee on Oceanography 
(ICO pamphlet #5) for FY 1963, presented a de- 
tailed report of agency research efforts. The 
report which follows describes how the FY 1963 
efforts will be modified by the FY 1964 program 
in light of the expected scientific and technolog- 
ical advances. In order that each year's re- 
search programs may be compared conveniently, 
the program will be presented in terms of five 
research objectives. In addition to identifying 
the research to be emphasized during this 
period, finding information is provided in 
terms of the increase in agency budgets be- 
tween FY 1963 and FY 1964. These budget 
differences are general guidelines in the magni- 
tude of the new programs in relation to the con- 
tinuing efforts. 
In FY 1964 the Research Program will in- 
crease by $15.5 million to a total of $62.6 mil- 
lion. Muchofthis increase has been programmed 
to provide for the tools and other support re- 
quired to conduct research. During this period, 
the Navy will have in its program for the first 
time four new applied research vessels, and 
the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries will be 
operating two. This type of increase is expected 
to continue during the next several years as the 
oceanographic fleet is expanded. 
In reviewing the research budget it will be 
noted that one of the largest increases in funds 
has been programmed for objective three, the 
exploitation of the living resources of the sea. 
The results of research in this area of oceanog- 
raphy represent the most readily apparent ap- 
plication of research efforts in support of na- 
tional and international programs for the benefit 
of mankind. Among the many contributing proj- 
ects, emphasis will be placed on synoptic ocea- 
nography and productivity studies in high seas 
areas to determine fishery potentials, basic 
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work in experimental marine biology and taxon- 
omy, and instrument development programs to 
improve apparatus for sampling and studying 
marine organisms. 
OBJECTIVE ONE - To describe the distribution 
of physical and chemical properties of the 
oceans and to understand the dynamic proc- 
esses which affect this distribution. 
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
Department of the Navy 
Office of Naval Research. A large part of 
the increase in the Office of Naval Research 
(ONR) oceanographic budget will be focused 
upon this objective. ONR will sponsor work in 
the tropical Atlantic to be undertaken by the 
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institutions, Uni- 
versity of Rhode Island, New York University, 
Johns Hopkins University, Agricultural & Me- 
chanical College of Texas, and the University of 
Miami. At three of these laboratories there 
will be new or newly converted research ships 
for which increased funding will be required. 
These are the ATLANTIS II at Woods Hole and 
the two converted FS's at the University of 
Rhode Island and Texas A&M. 
A concerted effort will be undertaken to 
understand the scale of water movement in the 
North Atlantic and its variations over a period 
of time both from the analytical and experimen- 
tal standpoints. The experimental work will be 
performed primarily through use of a system 
of anchored buoys which measure ocean currents 
and other pertinent parameters. 
Similar observations of currents, in par- 
ticular the equatorial circulation, will be car- 
ried out in programs supporting the International 
Indian Ocean Expedition. A somewhat increased 
effort over that of FY 1963 is anticipated in this 
region, which will include an R5D aircraft to 
work with meteorologists and oceanographers, 
enabling them to correlate conditions in the 
atmosphere with investigations of the ocean. An 
increased effort in the investigation of the phys- 
ical and chemical properties of limited areas of 
the ocean, with emphasis on environmental ef- 
fects in anti-submarine warfare operations, will 
also be undertaken. 
Naval Oceanographic Office. The Oceano- 
graphic Office will accelerate its programs for 
investigating the physical and chemical proper- 
ties of the sea. These programs willbe oriented 
toward greater understanding of the dynamics of 
