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We are deliglited to have your statement. You won't be subject to 

 as man}^ questions. Go right ahead please. 

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Career Resume of Walter C. Beckmann 



President and Chairman of the Board, Alpine Greophysical Assciates, Inc., 

 Norwood, New Jersey 07848, 1959-1969. 



Research Associate in Oceanography, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory 

 ('Columbia University) Palisades, New York, 1949-1959. 



Columbia College. B.A. 1949, Majors in Physics and Mathematics, New York, 

 New York, 1945-1949. 



Professional Affiliations : American Fisheries Institute, American Geological 

 Union, Catfish Farmers of America, European Society of Exploration Geophysi- 

 cists. New York Academy of Sciences, Marine Technological Society, Seismolog- 

 ical Society of America, ^Society of Exploration Geophysicists. 



STATEMENT OP WALTEH C. BECKMANN, PRESIDENT, ALPINE 

 GEOPHYSICAL ASSOCIATES, INC. 



Mr. Beckmann. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, it is indeed a pleas- 

 ure for me to appear before the subcommittee to express the views of 

 Alpine Geophysical Associates, Inc., concerning the report of the 

 Commission on Marine Science, Engineering, and Eesources. 



The Commission must be congratulated on its report. Basically Al- 

 pine supports the recommendations made by the report. Some of these 

 are particularly significant to Alpine and I would like to comment 

 briefly on some of them. 



I am Walter C. Beckmann, president and chairman of the board of 

 Alpine Geophysical Associates, Inc., of Norwood, N.J. Our company 

 is a leader in applied oceanography. We began our brief history in 

 1959 and note our first decade of operations this year 1969. 



Our group has distinguished itself by introducing to the offshore and 

 land petroleum exploration industry the use of nonexplosive sources 

 of seismic energy — ^^this means that the techniques we have introduced 

 do not kill fish — ^but equally important, provide a better means of find- 

 ing oil. 



We have found oil in the Persian Gulf, the Cook Inlet, the North 

 Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and on the Alaskan North Slope. Our tech- 

 niques and crews have proven offshore geophysical exploration for 

 mining : coal, diamonds, iron ore, tin, manganese, among others. 



We have introduced the use of tankers to carry bulk cargoes such 

 as grains and ammonium sulphate. 



We are the first and only company in the world to make marine 

 protein concentrate (MFC) — which is a fish protein concentrate 

 (FPC) — and is perhaps one of the principal means of preventing mass 

 world starvation. 



Alpine was the largest industrial contractor, for oceanographic sur- 

 veys, of the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office, prior to last year's budget 

 cut. Of three marine geophysical survey contracts, let by Navoceano, 

 we were awarded two — ^the third went to Texas Instruments. 



It might be well to note here that, when the Agency for International 

 Development of the State Department decided to obtain fish protein 

 concentrate for their humanitarian projects some 350 persons, repre- 

 senting U.S. and foreign corporations, attended the bidders' con- 



