NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 627 
During FY-62 NODC has published a monthly NEWSLETTER, consisting of approximately 8 
pages and containing information on activities of NODC and items of interest to the entire scientific 
community. The NODC has provided back-up information for articles appearing in magazines and 
journals; namely, Rockets and Missiles magazine, the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 
the Mariners Weather Log, and the U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings. The NODC also prepared an 
article which appeared in the March issue of Transactions of the American Geophysical Union. 
Papers on the work of the NODC were presented at numerous meetings of scientific and 
related societies such as, the Joint Government-Industry Symposium on Oceanographic Instrumenta- 
tion, the American Society of Computer Machinery, the Research Society of America, and the Special 
Libraries Association. 
In the field of research and investigations the NODC has been working on the development 
of a geological-geophysical data holding-recall system and presented its findings to the Ad Hoc Com- 
mittee on Geology and Geophysics in June 1962. A similar program for biological data is also 
under development. 
An analysis of bathythermograph data has also been begun to evaluate the data in NODC 
archives and to evaluate incoming BT data. 
A new computer program was written to detect instabilities in physical-chemical data from 
oceanographic stations. This has considerably cut down premonitoring work necessary in quality 
control procedures. Work is progressing on reprogramming for the computation of sound velocity 
according to Wilson's method and test runs of this program have been made for special projects. 
In order that the NODC will truly represent an interagency concept, three additional agencies 
with an interest in oceanography have been invited to participate in the support of NODC. These 
agencies are the U. S. Coast Guard, The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the 
U.S. Geological Survey. During FY-62 the Coast Guard and the Geological Survey responded 
favorably to this invitation and have agreed to support the NODC beginning in FY-64. The other 
agency had made no definite committment by the end of FY-62. 
