NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION (NSF)—Continued 
PROGRAM TITLE AND PURPOSE REMARKS 
Research Facilities Support 
Provision of interim funding, in cooperation with the Navy, to Provides “block” (full year) funding 
support the submersible ALVIN to make ALVIN available to for “National Facilities”; time on fa- 
scientists from academia and institutions. The University National cilities allocated on basis of scientific 
Oceanographic Laboratory System (UNOLS), an independent merit by UNOLS. UNOLS has rec- 
association of universities and institutions, has recommended ommended a lease fund for existing 
that ALVIN be declared a “National Oceanographic Facility.” platforms. 
Lead agency: Oceanographic Facilities Section. 
Franco-American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study (FAMOUS) 
A cooperative venture of NSF, DOC (NOAA), DOD, and Use of ALVIN planned. 
France for the investigation of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. 
Lead agency: NOAA-International Decade of Ocean Explora- 
tion (IDOE). 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
Biological-Geological Oceanography 
Basic research in the marine environment, especially to observe Nearly complete utilization made of 
the ecosystem through the transparent hull (of the submersible the SEA LINK. 
SEA LINK) and to send out divers to collect geological and 
biological specimens and data. Emphasized are the kinds, dis- 
tribution, and ecology of marine organisms; the effects of pressure 
at ocean depth on marine organisms: and the kinds and distri- 
butions of sediments on the shallow sea floor. 
Lead agency: Smithsonian in cooperation with the Harbour 
Branch Foundation. 
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