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mind, and it evaluates these in the context of the world power balance among 
nations. In the pragmatic light of these national policy considerations, I consider 
the nation’s renewed interest in the sea most auspicious. 
The first and foremost recommendation concerns the organization of the new 
agency. To use the Commission’s words, ‘The overriding consideration is that 
only through creation of a major marine agency with attendant atmospheric 
responsibilities can a national effort be launched.”—‘“‘Because of the importance 
of the seas to this Nation and the world, our Federal organization of marine 
affairs must be put in order.” 
One final comment. In moving to advance scientific understanding and the 
practical uses of the sea, we and other developed nations face an unprecedented 
opportunity. This is to organize our efforts jointly for the benefit of all by ac- 
cepting the sea as everyone’s resource and joint custodianship for man as a 
practical as well as moral imperative. The alternative, an intensifying competi- 
tion over these uses as technological capability and the perception of the sea’s 
importance both grow, seems ominous in this age of nuclear weapons. In either 
case, our approach to marine affairs needs to utilize our best minds and widest 
national capabilities if we are to measure up to the challenge ahead. 
Dr. Douglas L. Brooks is President of The Travelers Research Corporation of 
Hartford, Connecticut, a contract research organization working in the environ- 
mental sciences. He has been actively engaged in the fields of oceanography, 
meteorology and operations research and is the author of numerous technical 
publications. He received his B.S. degree in physics from Yale University, and 
completed his graduate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
receiving both his M.S. and Sc.D. degree in meteorology in 1943 and 1948, respec- 
tively. From 1948 until joining Travelers Research in mid-1962, he served with 
M.1.T.’s Operations Evaluation Group, the principal agency conducting opera- 
tions research for the U.S. Navy. During this time, he conducted studies in the 
field for a number of operating commands and published classified papers on 
many aspects of naval warfare. In 1954, he became a Deputy Director of the 
Operations Evaluation Group and in 1957 was appointed Director of Research 
for the associated Naval Warfare Analysis Group, conducting studies in support 
of the Navy’s long-range planning staff. He has served as consultant to numer- 
ous agencies of government, including the Interagency Committee on Ocean- 
ography, the Office of Science and Technology, the National Science Foundation’s 
Sea-Grant College Program, and the Marine Science Council, and has been active 
in various panels of the National Academy of Sciences, including the chairman- 
ship of its Panel on Air-Sea Interaction. He is a charter member of the Marine 
Technology Society. 
(Whereupon, at 12:20 p.m. the committee recessed, to reconvene at 
10 a.m. Tuesday, September 16, 1969.) 
