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the ocean, especially turbulence, in order to 
enhance the office's forecasting capability. 
Bureau of Ships. The Bureau of Ships pro- 
gram at the Navy Electronics Laboratory (NEL), 
investigating the effects of physical and chem- 
ical properties of the ocean on sound transmis- 
sion, will be markedly increased. This will, in 
part, result from the fact that NEL will have 
the new research vessel, DAVIS, to assist in 
their program. The combination of a broadened 
program and the operating costs of the new ship 
will account for a large part of the increase in 
the Bureau of Ships oceanographic research 
budget. 
Department of the Army 
Beach Erosion Board, Corps of Engineers. 
The Beach Erosion Board plans to increase its 
studies of tidal flow. This will include labora- 
tory studies on the tidal prism, the effect of 
waves on tides, and other problems of the dy- 
namics of confined bodies of water. The results 
of laboratory and analytical studies will be 
tested on successively larger models, and will 
include field work in small, medium, and large 
bodies of water. The Indian River Inlet, in 
Delaware, will be one of the areas selected for 
intensive investigation. A complementary study 
of the flushing of estuaries will be made in con- 
nection with the above investigations. 
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
Coast and Geodetic Survey. The Coast and 
Geodetic Survey will triple its effort in the fol- 
lowing areas which contribute to Objective One: 
a. Increased tsunami research to take ad- 
vantage of technological and theoretical ad- 
vances. 
b. An assualt on the basic problem of 
measuring water motion. 
c. The development of techniques for 
handling and processing data aboard ship. 
d. Initiation of a program for providing a 
network of buoys encircling the continent. 
Weather Bureau. Studies of coastal flood- 
ing related to storm conditions will be continued. 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
Bureau of Commerical Fisheries. Major 
increases in the Bureau of Commercial 
NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 
Fisheries FY 1964 program will be devoted to 
participation in the International Cooperative 
Investigations of the Tropical Atlantic and to 
synoptic studies of the trade wind zone of the 
central Pacific. Lesser amounts are being re- 
quested to start planning and preparation for 
participation in a cooperative research program 
in the eastern Pacific (EASTROPAC), and to ex- 
pand Bureau activities in the International 
Indian Ocean Expedition. 
Geological Survey. During FY 1964, the 
Geological Survey will initiate studies on the 
influence of fresh-water discharge from the 
continent into tidal bays, estuaries, and on the 
Continental Shelf. 
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 
Investigations of the dynamic properties 
of the ocean will be accelerated through support 
from the National Science Foundation. These 
will include expanded efforts in the International 
Indian Ocean Expedition and in the joint East 
Coast laboratories program to study the circu- 
lation and turbulence of the North Atlantic. A 
continuing and expanding program of Antarctic 
oceanography will be conducted aboard the 
USNS ELTANIN. 
OBJECTIVE TWO - To increase knowledge of 
interactions between sea and atmosphere. 
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
Department of the Navy 
Office of Naval Research. The program of 
moored buoy and tower observations of wave 
properties in the Gulf of Mexico supported by 
ONR will be expanded moderately. This will 
involve additional automated data gathering and 
handling equipment utilized cooperatively by 
several Gulf Coast laboratories. 
Naval Oceanographic Office. Within the 
Oceanographic Office and through contracts, 
considerable emphasis will be placed upon 
ocean-atmosphere studies. These programs 
will be directed towards understanding the fun- 
damental processes occurring at the ocean-air 
interface in order to increase the accuracy of 
predicting oceanographic conditions affecting 
fleet operations. Considerable emphasis will 
be given to the study of surface and internal 
waves. 
Bureau of Ships. The Navy Electronics 
Laboratory and the Underwater Sound Laboratory 
