Dr. Geyer was born on October 27, 1914, in New York City. In 1937, he re- 

 ceived his BS from New York University; in 1940, he received his MS, also from 

 New York University; and in 1950, he received his MA, and in 1951, his PhD 

 from Princeton University. 



Dr. Geyer is presently a member of the National Academy of Sciences Com- 

 mittee on Oceanography — Ocean Wide Surveys Panel and a member of the 

 Board of the American Society for Oceanography of the National Oceanographic 

 Society and of the Marine Technology Society. He was a consultant with the 

 US Coast and Geodetic Survey and was formerly an editor of Geophysics. 



DAVID A. ADAMS 



Dr. Adams is currently a member of the National Council on Marine Resources 

 and Engineering Development Staff. He served as Commissioner of the North 

 Carolina Division of Commercial and Sports Fisheries from 1963-1968. Before 

 that he was curator of the North Carolina State Museum from 1962-1963, chief 

 Park Naturalist of the North Carolina Division of State Parks from 1957-1959, 

 and a waterfowl biologist for the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission 

 in 1957. 



Dr. Adams was born in Lakewood, Ohio, on November 26, 1931. He attended 

 North Carolina State College where he received his BS in Wildlife Conservation 

 and Management in 1953, his MS in Wildlife Management in 1957, and his PhD 

 in Plant Ecology in 1962. He is the author of numerous professional publications 

 and a member of several professional and honorary societies. 



Currently, Dr. Adams is a member of the Ecological Society of America, the 

 American Institute of Biological Sciences, and the American Fisheries Society. 

 He was formerly Chairman of the South Atlantic Section of the Atlantic States 

 Marine Fisheries Commission and Vice Chairman of the Atlantic States Marine 

 Fisheries Commission. 



CARL A. ATJERBACH 



Professor Auerbach has been a Professor of Law since 1947, serving at the 

 University of Minnesota Law School since 1961, and before that at the University 

 of Wisconsin Law School. In 1965, 1966 and 1967, he served as a visiting Pro- 

 fessor at Columbia Law School, Utah Law School and Iowa Law School, 

 respectively. 



Professor Auerbach received his BA degree in 1935 from Long Island Uni- 

 versity and his LLB from Harvard University Law School in 1938. Upon 

 graduation from law school, he took a position as attorney in the US Depart- 

 ment of Labor, where he served until 1940 when he moved to the Of&ce of Price 

 Administration as Assistant General Counsel. He served with the US Ajmy in 

 the OSS from 1943 until 1946 when he returned to the government as General 

 Counsel in the Office of Price Administration and Associate General Counsel 

 in the Office of the Economic Stabilization. 



Professor Auerbach is the author of numerous legal articles and is the co- 

 author of two books: "The Legal Process — An Introduction to Decision-Mak- 

 ing by Judicial, Legislative, Executive and Administrative Agencies," and "The 

 Federal Regulation of Transportation — Materials Illustrating Problems of Public 

 Utility Control." He was also the recipient of a Fulbright Advanced Research 

 Award in 1953, and from 1958-1959, he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced 

 Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is also a member of the Division of Be- 

 havioral Sciences of the National Research Council. 



Professor Auerbach has been a consultant to the Agency for International De- 

 velopment and the Staff Director to the Committee on International Orga- 

 iiization and Procedure of the Administrative Conference of the United States. 



CHARLES p. BAIRD 



Mr. Baird joined the International Nickel Co. of Canada, Ltd., as vice president, 

 finance, in February 1969 and is also vice president, finance, and director of the 

 company's U.S. subsidiary, the International Nickel Co., Inc. 



For over 3 years prior to that time Mr. Baird served as a member of the U.S. 

 Navy Secretariat. He was nominated by President Johnson as Assistant Secretary 

 of the Navy (Financial Management). He served in that capacity until Augvist 1, 

 1967, when he became the Under Secretary of the Navy as well as a member of the 

 Commission on Marine Science, Engineering, and Resources. 



Prior to his Government service, Mr. Baird had been an executive with Standard 

 Oil Co., (New Jersey) and its affiliated companies for over 17 years. Starting his 



