668 NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIC PROGRAM—1965 
TABLE 2 
SUMMARY OF DATA REQUESTS (REIMBURSABLE) 
(July 1962—June 1963) 
NO. OF COST TO 
REQUESTS CONSUMER 
Completed 51 $130,792 
In Work 10 * $ 49,154 
“Special Projects” $ 40,288 
TOTAL $220,234 
* Carried forward to FY-64 
“Special Projects’’ include funds for World Data Center-A, Oceanography; for abstracting 
and bibliographic work by the American Meteorological Society; and for the training of foreign naval 
personnel in Data Center procedures. 
At its meeting on 16 October 1962 the NODC Avisory Board recognized the desirability of 
supporting the abstracting of the oceanographic literature as part of an overall data/information 
retrieval program. After a briefing by Mr. Malcolm Rigby of the American Meteorological Society 
it was decided to support the Society as the most logical organization to accomplish this work. AEC 
offered funds for the initial support of this work in FY 1963, providing the work would continue to 
receive support after FY 1963 in the NODC’s regular budget. 
The abstracts of the American Meteorological Society are published in Meteorological and 
Geoastrophysical Abstracts. A special bibliography (including abstracts) on Oceanographic Instru- 
mentation appeared in the April-May 1963 issues. Future issues will contain special bibliographies 
on the Indian Ocean, Subsurface Currents, and Heat Flow through the Bottom of the Ocean. In 
addition, oceanographic abstracts appear routinely in each issue. 
For a description of the work of World Data Center-A, see pages 20 and 21. The NSF pro- 
vides support for this function. 
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