NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 
studies being planned by the Geological Survey. 
The $15 thousand will provide for the equipment 
to be used aboard ships of the Naval Oceano- 
graphic Office and the Coast and Geodetic Sur- 
vey. 
Department of Commerce 
Coast and Geodetic Survey. The Coast and 
Geodetic Survey will receive a modest increase 
of $313 thousand in survey funding for FY 1964. 
Two new Class II ships, the PEIRCE and 
WHITING, are scheduled for delivery late in 
FY 1963 as replacements for existing hydro- 
graphic survey ships. These ships will be 
equipped to carry out both charting and oceano- 
graphic operations. After shake-down cruises 
in the Gulf of Mexico, both will be assigned to 
the East-Coast with one of them operating full- 
time on oceanographic-hydrographic surveys of 
the continental shelf, while the other will be en- 
gaged primarily in coastal! charting activities 
with some supplementary oceanographic work. 
The first Class I ocean survey ship, the OCEA- 
NOGRAPHER, will be delivered in FY 1964. It 
is planned to start operations with this ship on 
Ocean Surveys in the North Pacific, continuing 
the work of the PIONEER while that ship goes 
to the Indian Ocean. The sum of $200 thousand 
has been budgeted specifically for the additional 
costs to be incurred in the latter half of FY-1964 
in operating the PIONEER in the International 
Indian Ocean Expedition. 
During the first half of FY 1964 the 
PIONEER will continue its ocean survey opera- 
tions in the North Pacific between Hawaii and 
the Aleutians. In addition to the underway op- 
erations, a study of the current structure in the 
boundary area between the sub-arctic and cen- 
tral Pacific water masses is planned. Bottom 
photography, sediment studies and cooperative 
projects will be carried out with several other 
agencies and private institutions. The SUR- 
VEYOR will perform similar underway opera- 
tions to the west between Midway and the Aleu- 
tians and will run a line of synoptic stations with 
the PIONEER. She will operate in areas of par- 
ticular interest to the Navy. 
In both FY 1963 and FY 1964, increasing 
amounts of oceanographic survey work are being 
added to the planned operations of the other 
major ships. The EXPLORER, in FY 1964, will 
carry out combined oceanographic and hydro- 
graphic surveys in the Cape Hatteras area, 
working within the general framework of the 
study of the Continental Shelf of the East Coast 
in which the Geological Survey and the Woods 
Hole Oceanographic Institution are cooperating. 
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The Duke University Marine Laboratory will 
cooperate in these studies. The PATHFINDER 
will conduct primarily hydrographic surveys in 
the Hawaiian Islands area and in the Gulf of 
Alaska. The HYDROGRAPHER in FY 1964 
will be carrying out combined oceanographic 
and hydrographic operations in the Flordia 
Straits. 
The survey activities of the Coast and Geo- 
detic Survey, in FY 1964, reflect the continuing 
trend of adding more oceanographic survey work 
to the charting activities of the major ships, and 
of increasing the amount of ship time devoted to 
the ocean survey program. 
Department of Health Education and Welfare 
Public Health Service — Water Supply Pol- 
lution Program. Surveys undertaken in con- 
junction with water pollution represent marine 
studies requested in federal enforcement actions 
underway in Puget Sound and Raritan Bay, and 
in the development of comprehensive water pol- 
lution control programs for the drainage basins 
of the Delaware River, Columbia River, Susque- 
hanna River, Chesapeake Bay, and the tri-state 
metropolitan area (New Jersey, New York, and 
Connecticut). A special project will be initiated 
to develop fundamental physical, chemical, and 
biological data on the interactions of pollutants 
and the marine environment, and the effects of 
water movements, marine geology, and similar 
factors on the dispersion and fate of pollutants 
in estuarine and near-shore waters. 
Radiological Health Program. Public 
Health Service plans to continue its surveillance 
activities in estuaries in relation to the dis- 
charge of radioactive materials from nuclear 
energy facilities. The purpose of these studies 
is to determine in marine waters and in sea- 
food the levels of radioactivity resulting from 
nuclear weapons testing and other sources in 
order to arrive at a better understanding of the 
fate of radionuclides in the marine environment. 
Results of these studies may disclose indicator 
organisms useful in detecting radioactive pol- 
lutants, as well as being useful in developing 
mechanisms for the removal of radioactive 
nuclides from the acquatic environment. 
Shellfish Program. In cooperation with 
coastal states, surveys of shellfish-growing 
areas will be conducted in FY 1964. 
Total funds for surveys to be conducted by 
the Public Health Service in FY 1964 amount to 
$600 thousand. 
