115. INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF VOLCANOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY OF 

 THE EARTH'S INTERIOR: lAVCEI 



Created in 1919 as the International Association of Volcanology 

 (lAV), lAVCEI is responsible for collecting and disseminating data 

 in its special fields, which include sea-floor spreading. 



116. INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES: lUGS 

 Founded in 1961, lUGS aims to advance geological investiga- 

 tions. A component of special interest is the Commission for Marine 

 Geology (CMG), which sponsors geological, geochemical, and geo- 

 physical investigations of the sea floor. CMG also supervises 

 the preparation of the International Geological and Geophysical 

 Cruise Inventory (IG/GCI) and is responsible for the inventory of 

 marine geological and geophysical data taken before to 1970. Another 

 of interest is the Commission on Tectonics. lUGS also includes a 

 Committee on Storage, Automatic Processing, and Retrieval of Geologi- 

 cal Data (COGEODATA), which prepares standards and formats for geo- 

 logical data and is compiling an index to the availability of data. 

 Associations of some interest are the International Association of 

 Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry (lAGC) and the International Associa- 

 tion of Engineering Geology (lAEG). 



117. INTERNATIONAL UNION OF THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF 

 SCIENCE: lUHPS 



A Commission on the History of Oceanography (CHO) was recently 

 included in lUPHS. 



118. SPECIAL COMMITTEES OF ICSU 



A number of special and scientific committees have been created 

 within ICSU to concern themselves with interdisciplinary problems 

 that overlap functions of two or more of the unions. Entries 120 

 through 126 cover those of interest to marine scientists. 



119. COMMITTEE ON DATA FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: CODATA 

 Founded in 1966 to promote and encourage the production and 



distribution of compilations of critically selected numerical values 

 of properties of substance and importance, CODATA determines needs, 

 provides guidance, evaluates, and establishes standards. It is 

 establishing a World Data Referral Center (WDRC). 



120. COMMITTEE ON SPACE RESEARCH: COSPAR 



COSPAR is concerned with remote sensing of Earth resources by 

 satellite, including sensing of the marine environment. 



121. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON ANTARCTIC RESEARCH: SCAR 



Founded in 1958, SCAR is responsible for coordinating scien- 

 tific activity in the Antarctic and includes a working group on 

 oceanography. It sponsors the Antarctic Research Program (ARP) 

 which includes programs relating to oceanography and marine biology. 



SCAR includes Groups of Specialists, several of which are: the 

 Group of Specialists on Marine Living Resources of the Southern Ocean, 

 which is developing the BIOMASS program; the Group of Specialists on 

 Ice Shelf Drilling Projects (ISDP); and the Group of Specialists on 

 Environmental Impact Assessments of Mineral Resource Exploration and 

 Exploitation in the Antarctic (EAMREA). 



122. SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE ON OCEANIC RESEARCH: SCOR 



Founded in 1957 to further all disciplines of research in the 

 oceans, SCOR is a scientific advisory body to IOC. It facilitates 



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