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1947-48. Associate Director, Chesapeake Bay Institute, The Johns Hopkins Uni- 

 versity, 1949-1951. Chairman, Department of Oceanograph, The Johns Hopkins 

 University, 1950-1968. 



Professional Activities 



National Boards and Committees : Member, Committee on Oceanography, Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences (NASCO). Chairman, Panel on Oceanographic Data 

 (NASCO). Memher, Panel on Radioactivity in the Marine Environment 

 (NASCO). Member, Advisory Committee on Isotopes and Radiation Develop- 

 ment, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Member, Marine Resources Advisory 

 Committee, Department of the Interior. 



State Boards and Committees: Member, and current Vice-Chairman, Board 

 of Natural Resources, State of Maryland. Member, Air Quality Control Advisory 

 Council, State of Maryland. Member, Radiation Control Advisory Board, State of 

 Maryland. Member, Commission on Submerged Lands, State of Maryland. Mem- 

 ber, Study Commission to Investigate Problems of Water Pollution in Maryland. 

 Consultant to Special Commission on Pollution, State of Maryland. 



Professional Societies, Editorial Boards, and Honors: Fellow, American Geo- 

 physical Union ; Past President, Past Vice President and Past Secretary, Section 

 of Oceanography, Life Fellow, The International Oceanographic Foundation; 

 Member, American Society of Limnology and Oceanography ; Past Vice-President, 

 Member, Society of Sigma Xi; Past President and Past Vice-President, JHU 

 Chapter ; Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science ; Mem- 

 ber, Atlantic Estuarine Research Society ; Board of Editors, The Johns Hopkins 

 Oceanographic Studies ; Board of Editors, Journal of Marine Research. 



Past Professional Activities : National Academy of Sciences Representative on 

 the Advisory Board to the National Oceanographic Data Center, 1960-1968; 

 Consultant to Special Advisory Committee on Department of Commerce, The 

 National Academy of Sciences, 1959 : Consultant, Sub-Committee on Oceanog- 

 raphy and Fisheries, Committee on the Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation, 

 National Academy of Sciences ; Chairman, Panel on Waste Disposal from Nuclear 

 Powered Ships, Committee on the Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation, Na- 

 tional Academy of Sciences; Panel member. Radioactive Waste Disposal into 

 the Sea, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria ; Member, Ad 

 Hoc Expert Committee on Radioactive Materials in Food and Agriculture, Food 

 and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy. 



Publications : Author of some 50 scientific papers published in scientific jour- 

 nals, in symposia proceedings, in encyclopedia, and as chapters in text books, on 

 such subjects as the physical oceanography of the Arctic and Antarctic; the 

 physical limnology of lakes ; the kinematics and dynamics of estuarine circula- 

 tion and on the distribution of constitutents in estuaries ; the processes of diffu- 

 sion in estuaries, coastal waters and in the ocean ; the fate of radioactive mate- 

 rials in the marine environment ; and the eutrophication of estuaries. 



STATEMENT OF DR. DONALD W. PRITCHARD, DIRECTOR, CHESA- 

 PEAKE BAY INSTITUTE, THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, 

 BALTIMORE, MD., AND MEMBER, COMMITTEE ON OCEANOGRA- 

 PHY, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Dr. Pritchard. Thank you. 



I am Dr. Donald W. Pritchard, director of the Chesapeake Bay 

 Institute, The Johns Hopkins University, and professor of oceanog- 

 raphy in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at the 

 University, having been formerly chairman of the Department of 

 Oceanography, which has now been combined into the new Depart- 

 ment of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 



I am a member of the Coimnittee on Oceanography of the National 

 Academy of Sciences. 



I wish to thank you for providing me with this opportunity to pre- 

 sent my opinion on the report of the Commission on Marine Science, 

 Engineering and Resources and on the implications of the findings of 



