Oceanographic Data Center (NODC). They are also available in a 

 separate report prepared by NODC and published by the Scientific, 

 Technical, and Research Commission of the Organization of African 

 Unity (OAU/STRC), successor to the CCTA. The report, entitled "Re- 

 port on the Guinean Trawling Survey, volume III, Data Report," is 

 OAU/STRC publication no. 99. It is also no. 8 in the NODC General 

 Series. 



284. HISTORICAL SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE DATA PROJECT: HSSTD 



This WMO-sponsored project aims to prepare and publish monthly 

 means of meteorological data over ocean areas for the period 1860- 

 1960, where data are available. Four countries. Federal Republic of 

 Germany, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, and United States, have 

 the bulk of the data and are participants. 



Marine meteorological data collected since 1960 are being published 

 in a series of "Marine Climatological Summaries." Nine member nations 

 are participating in these publications under the direction of WMO. 

 Several summaries have been published to date. 



285. INTERNATIONAL BALTIC YEAR: IBY 



In 1969 and 1970, a series of expeditions were made by research 

 vessels from all Baltic countries with support from the International 

 Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) and the Conference of 

 Baltic Oceanographers (CBO). 



286. INTERNATIONAL BIOLOGICAL PROGRAMME: IBP 



UNESCO and ICSU sponsored IBP, which was established in 1966. 

 ICSU in turn created a Special Committee to supervise the program 

 (SCIPB). The program included many subprograms. Those dealing with 

 marine productivity were referred to as IBP/PM. IBP was concluded 

 in 1974. The Man and the Biosphere Program is being designed to con- 

 tinue many projects initiated during IBP. 



One of the marine productivity subprograms was the Upwelling Biome 

 Integrated Research Program, conducted in March 1972 off the coast of 

 Punta San Hipolito, Baja California. Also called the MESCAL program, 

 it was one of the forerunners of the Coastal Upwelling Ecosystem 

 Analysis (CUBA) program of the International Decade of Ocean Explora- 

 tion (IDOE). 



287. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVE EFFORT TOWARD UNDERSTANDING OF 

 THE EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC OCEAN: EASTROPAC 



A cooperative survey of the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean was 

 conceived at the 1960 meeting of the Eastern Pacific Oceanographic 

 Conference (EPOC), an advisory group of U.S. oceanographers. The 

 concept of the survey was supported by IOC in 1961, and the first 

 scheduled cruise was in 1967. Other participants included the Inter- 

 American Tropical Tuna Commission (lATTC) and the five member govern- 

 ments of lATTC at that time. 



The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service has published a compre- 

 hensive 11-volume Atlas incorporating data from the cruises. Follow- 

 ing production of the atlas, the data were forwarded to the U.S. 

 National Oceanographic Data Center for archiving. 



288. INTERNATIONAL GEODYNAMICS PROJECT: IGP 



Established in 1970 at the instigation of lUGG and lUGS and 

 administered by the ICSU Inter-Union Commission for Geodynamics 

 (IICG), the project is in a sense a successor to the Upper Mantle 

 Project (UMP). It was conceived as a result of the new premises 



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